Posted on 12/14/2024 5:38:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
The hero worship for Luigi Mangione, the accused executioner of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, is appalling to reasonable people. We understand, though, that on occasion Americans can have a legitimate grievance with their health insurance coverage. But the guilty parties are not corporate insurance executives. The culpable are the lawmakers and regulators in Washington who have hijacked the country’s health care industry.
Mangione, arrested Monday in Pennsylvania on fake ID and firearms charges, justified the slaying of health care insurance executives, which sent many on the left into spasms of delight.
“These parasites had it coming,” the new folk hero for elitists wrote in his manifesto. Sadly, Mangione, a son of privilege who favors the crumbling British government’s National Health Service, is not alone in his blind hatred for health insurance executives.
Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz, who has been publicly demonstrating her tenuous grip of reality and decency for years, has been a leader among the aggrieved. “And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” she posted on Bluesky only hours after Thompson was gunned down.
Then on Monday night on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” she said that, “along with so many other Americans,” she felt “joy, unfortunately,” at the news of Thompson’s death. She quickly tried to backtrack when she realized how malicious and deranged she sounded. But out of the abundance – or maybe the emptiness – of her heart, her mouth spoke.
On Tuesday, we noted that The Hill was reporting that “social media users have sometimes outright gloated at the killing.” Apparently it’s an acceptable expression of “populist rage.” Later in the day, the execrable Jimmy Kimmel read exchanges among his staff which demonstrated that his crew desperately needs help.
One asked if “you guys think the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer is hot?” Another said “everyone is obsessed” with Ivy Leaguer Mangione and seemed happy to report that people “are saying a NY jury has the power to find him innocent.” Other zany comments included “we all love him,” “I’m not mad at him” and “I would visit him in prison, and bake him cookies maybe.”
Other examples of this madness include:
- A University of Pennsylvania professor calling Mangione “the icon we all need and deserve.”
- Mugs, hats, holiday sweaters, wine tumblers and baseball caps “emblazoned with the phrase ‘Deny, Defend, Depose’” — words written on ammunition casings found near where Thompson was shot in midtown Manhattan — “popped up on eBay, Etsy, TikTok and Amazon,” reports the Washington Post.
- Millions have been “salivating over the alleged assassin of Brian Thompson in a disgusting display of our society’s disintegration,” according to the London Telegraph.
Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny, whose actions were justifiable, received no such adoration and were instead vilified by the left and in pop culture. Both were also acquitted by juries, and rather than stalk prey, as did Thompson’s killer, they defended themselves and others. They were just on the wrong side of identity politics, and like Thompson, from modest backgrounds, which makes them deplorables in the eyes of the elect.
The insanity has become so widespread that, says the Daily Mail, “alarming ‘wanted’ posters of top health care executives” have been “popping up across New York City,” prompting “police to issue a bulletin warning leaders of the rising threats.”
While she didn’t directly defend the shooting of Thompson, Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren did try to justify it. “People can be pushed only so far,” she told the media. “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system.”
Warren’s lack of self-awareness is rich, because she and others who have irresponsibly created a health care system that too often malfunctions, not health insurance executives, should be the targets of complaints. As Grabien founder Tom Elliott has noted, “insurance companies simply do what” the Health and Human Services Department “tells them to.“
Sally Pipes, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, and a long-time health care analyst, agrees that “government is the problem for a lot of issues facing patients and their insurance coverage.”
After Obamacare passed in 2010, government exchange plans became available in January 2014, after which, says Pipes, “the life of insurers has become much more complicated and plans much more expensive because of all of the regulations, mandates, and especially the costly 10 essential health benefits that must be included in a plan.”
Rather than a hedge against medical disaster, health insurance in the U.S. has become “an inefficient form of socialized medicine, increasing costs,” says statistician Williams Briggs. The government has become a “ruler” that “steps in” and requires insurers to cover the medical care of policyholders who have pre-existing conditions. The only way they can do this is to take the losses or spread the costs among policyholders. They are not charities nor endless fonts of U.S. dollars.
What has happened through government intervention is that we now live in a nation where “health insurance programs, in both the public and the private sector,” have become so tangled that patients often find it “too bureaucratic, complex, and confusing,” says the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Moffit.
“The ‘private’ insurance sector is distorted by endless government regulations and interventions,” says our friend Steven Hayward in his Power Line Daily Chart. “Second, the dirty secret of health policy since the failure of Hillarycare in 1994 is that the government demands that private health insurance systems do cost containment, so that they, and not the government, will take the heat.”
Or in Thompson’s case, multiple bullets.
We live in a coarsened, losing-its-way society when it’s the company executive who is killed in cold blood, while congressmen continue to be reelected and regulators keep their jobs. As is the case with so much in our country, and the greater West, there is much wrong with this picture.
Why don’t the leftists go after the politicians who harmed our healthcare system with Zer0Care?
Yes. That’s really the key thing. If people start hunting for politicians, they wouldn’t be perceived as heroes. But politicians are the problem. The Left loves it when CEOs are gunned down, but if Democrats start dropping, it would be a tragedy.
Who is surprised? They wanted unvaxxed people loaded onto cattle cars and put in camps. They wanted you fired, unable to attend school or church, basically locked away. Nope. Screw them. We know their hearts now. I will not coexist with such people.
A health care CEO - Shoot to kill!
Mysterious drones - Leave them alone!!!
People are loosing site of the rule of law.
The government can allow millions to ignore immigration law, BLM can burn down cities, looters can steal from stores, a disgruntled man can shoot to kill another man who he deems responsible for his unhappiness and the masses applaud him (are just a few examples), and no one is held accountable. We are becoming a nation where people think it is okay to do whatever they themselves feel is right and justifiable. They have no moral compass, only love for themselves, no love for others and especially no love for God.
Video games
Violent films and television
Access to extreme violence streaming
All equates to brainwashing
Support Constitutional CCW! Trump can do it!
Too many steps to connect, Libs only see what is directly in front of them.
The problem stems from the way health and auto insurance is typically sold - with fixed dollar premiums.
It incentivizes the insurance company to fight for every dollar, which can head directly to its bottom line.
Insureds should bear all of the financial risk, so insurance companies don’t profit from jerking insureds and providers around.
Insurance should have an issue fee [~$100], a potentially refundable issue margin reserve charge [~$100], a monthly profit allocation [~$20], and an offer premium.
As the months go by, a $520/month health insurance offer premium would typically be adjusted by a higher-than-expected payout charge, or a lower-than-expected payout credit.
For January, you might pay $740.
For February, you might pay $540.
For March, you might pay $540.
For April, you might pay $532.
For May, you might pay $545.
....
For December, you might pay $557.
For healthcare insurance, when healthcare claims have almost all been settled, in say May of the following year, you might get a refund of the remaining issue margin reserve charge in the amount of $56.
For auto insurance, the refund of the remaining issue margin reserve charge might take years to arrive.
Personally, in my lay opinion, I think imaging coverage should be on an all the doctors prescribe basis (sans contrast agents and radioisotopes) if obtained off-hours at a plan in-network provider. The operator and the machines are available 24/7/365 at hospitals.
The culpable are the lawmakers and regulators in Washington who have hijacked the country’s health care industry.
And they still continue to push the death shots.
The CEO was scheduled to testify against Nancy Pelosi....
My proposal for new drug plans:
Federal PPACA exchanges would offer Interstate Class Drug Plans,
exempt from state control, that to be fully federally subsidy eligible must cover at least:
1. 80% of all recombinant drugs by key active entity
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
2. 80% of all FDA breakthrough drugs by key active entity
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
3. 80% of all drugs covered by a key active entity patent
(or 100% less the percentages held by the top three domestic rights holders by percentage),
4. 90% of all WHO “essential” drugs
Plans would have to called the provider name, followed by each of the four percentages, followed by whatever the provider wants, say UHC 86-92-93-98 Gold.
Any percentage shortfalls would result in twice the percentage reduction in the federal subsidy amount.
This system would allow for genuine negotiation between drug plans and drug companies. Drug plans would have an incentive to try to buy drugs from drug companies and drug companies would have an incentive to make deals to make sales.
All drugs would be supplied at on an all-the doctors prescribe basis. The co-pays would be roughly equal to mere manufacturing cost.
The baseline federal drug subsidy would be the average policy holder age (as of the beginning of the policy period) divided by 3 taken as a percent of PPACA baseline subsidy amount for the PPACA household.
EXAMPLE A: For a PPACA household with a 34-year-old, a 36-year-old, and a two-year-old, the baseline federal drug subsidy would be 8% ((34+36+2)/(3*3))% of the PPACA household’s baseline subsidy amount.
EXAMPLE B: For a single PPACA policy of age 60, the baseline federal drug subsidy would be 20% (60/3)% of the PPACA household’s baseline subsidy amount.
You could switch to a higher price drug plan mid-year by paying a 10-fold monthly premium difference surcharge.
Each doctor/physician assistant in the US would be able to switch at no surcharge five patients per year into a different plan mid-year.
“requires insurers to cover the medical care of policyholders who have pre-existing conditions”
BIG INSURER PRE-EXISTING CONDITION LOAN AGREEMENT
Big Insurer is lending $30,000 for the care of Mr. Sick.
Mr. Sick agrees to pay Big Insurer $250/month until this loan is repaid.
Big Insurer agrees to credit Mr. Sick for subsequent net yearly profits made off Big Insurer insurance issued to Mr. Sick.
Providers warrant Mr. Sick will repay according to this agreement in proportion to the funds advanced to them under this agreement. The warrants will become due one year after the monthly payments are due. If Mr. Sick dies or more than 12 monthly payments are more than 30 days late, the warranted amounts must be paid in full within 30 days of written Big Insurer demand.
some interesting reviews at:
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Year-War-Obamacare-Unfinished/dp/1250270936/
“requires insurers to cover the medical care of policyholders who have pre-existing conditions”
BIG PHARMA COMPANY DRUG FINANCE AGREEMENT
For each Magic pill provided to Mr. Sick, Mr. Sick agrees to pay Big Pharma Company the amount of $20.
Amounts shall be paid monthly and due by the 15th of the month following the month the pills were dispensed to Mr. Sick.
The monthly payments shall be no larger than $10 plus 1/36th the 1040 federal amounts due on the latest three prior tax year returns filed with the IRS. The fraction shall be cut in half if Mr. Sick is performing under a second similar agreement.
Upon his death, all unpaid amounts shall become due and payable to Big Pharma Company at the highest priority permitted by law.
“Why don’t the leftists go after the politicians who harmed our healthcare system with Zer0Care?”
A: Because they’re too stupid to assign blame to the real culprits, and
B: Because they never ever accept the blame for anything they have ever done or supported or voted for.
That’s because they’re blind to the truth.
Thats because the lefties are all ignorant brainwashed sheeple.
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