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Anthem pulled back that announcement about not covering all anesthesia real fucking quick when they saw the reaction to the news.
I didn’t realize they actually backpedaled instead of just trying to brush it under the rug: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-time-limits-anesthesia-surgery-rcna183035
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
*breathe*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I think they actually feel a little unsafe. Holy shit YES
(It actually probably wasn't due to this. They only retracted the policy in one state)
Is this how we actually make social progress? Because if this is the only effective tool we have left...
When peaceful options such as strikes, protests, and lobbying do not work. Once, people hit the tipping point of "I have reasons not to die to fuck it, I have nothing left." People will choose violence.
Add legislation, regulation, and prosecution to the list of failed peaceful attempts as well. The citizens have tried, and tried, and tried peaceful approaches. Almost nothing works anymore, because the rich have dismantled the US.
Soap box
Ballot box
Ammo Box < Healthcare Insurance CEOs made it to here by ignoring the other two.
It was bound to get to this point eventually. Who was it who said something about what happens when all avenues for change are removed except for the point of a blade?
Many have said similar things through the years, perhaps most appropriately from a US President only 60 years ago. On March 13, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”.
I don't know, but a similar and cool sounding one (which, admittedly, can totally be picked apart) is
Tranquility lies in the shade of the sabre - John Moynihan, by way of Brad Dharma, Psychedelic Detective
(Edit: To your comment, lots of people but Malcolm X jumps to mind first)
They've forgotten that all of the tools they've rendered inert were there to prevent us from doing this.
Look once is a fluke or vendita, but if this becomes a pattern...
To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services.
yeah. sure, Bob.
To be clear, we can smell your bullshit 100 miles away.
Anthem PR guy: To be clear, of course we'll never deny payment for medically necessary anesthesia services!
Anthem CEO: hehehe see what we did there? That's right, our policy is that after an arbitrary amount of time set by us, anesthesia is no longer medically necessary. Ha! Hahaha! Muaaaaah ha ha! high fives shareholders
Wow, can't believe they reversed course immediately. Their CEO just have been shitting bricks.
Maybe these shit bags are finally learning that their customers are humans, and humans can be just as bad as a cornered animal when the right situations occur.
Unfortunately, I don't think that is quite nearly enough.
I have the feeling insurers may want to review their existence as middlemen at all.
They’ll just wait for a better news cycle.
but CT only?
Sounds like they’re finally aware that people besides their customers can die in agony
