TLDR: The insurance company has a new policy, set to take effect in February 2025, where they decide how much anesthesia is needed for surgeries. They won’t pay for any anesthesia over that, with exemptions for maternity and pediatric cases and for Connecticut providers.
The article also notes the insurance company reported a $2.3 billion net income increase in June 2024.
Edit to update: Anthem now says they won’t put this policy into effect
That’s a nice CEO you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them.
Or would it
It was already reversed.
We got them scared
Didn’t verify, but someone said it was only reversed in like one out of the five proposed states. Figures
usually when a thing is reversed due to outrage, the entity will simply wait a few months to quietly put said thing into effect again
They should be.
I propose a guillotine emoji.
🧑🌾
The fact that there aren’t riots in the US demanding universal care simply baffles me.
Who needs roots when killing CEOs is more effective?
Is it effective though? I mean, it’s fun, but I don’t see it actually improving the situation.
Well, this decision just got reversed, so I’d say it does at least a bit
It’s not a one time solution, it’s a lifestyle change. You have to keep doing it.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said in a statement that its decision to backpedal resulted from “significant widespread misinformation” about the policy.
Ah, yes, if people complain about being mistreated, it is always “Our plan was misunderstood”, or “The critique is based on misinformation”…
That’s right. Rush the surgeons. That will end well.
Of course, because in the USA, insurance companies think they understand medicine better than doctors.
And so do Politicians and Parents…
How did they figure out the amount because the different people have different tolerances. My brother had a surgery that had not started and they were like. Your still awake. When meeting with the anethsiaologist before surgery he has to mention he may need a bit more than normal plus I believe there is a weight thing. Is the amount allowed assuming a worst case longest surgery with person who requires the most anesthia to six sigma of the population.
Exactly, like how redheads need more anesthesia
Real answer? Who knows
Cynical answer? However low their lawyers told them they could get away with without being liable
I remember some jokes around it being about cell receptiveness. Like their receptors don’t react to taking pigment the same way they don’t react to the anesthesia as well. If so, it would likely be a genetic trait, so the more natural red heads that have extremely low pigment may require more anesthesia to keep them under. But I’m no doctor, and most of those jokes had to do with their soul not being around to pick up the call 🤷.
I would find it darkly hilarious if this killing sparks a war
I would find it hilarious if it sparks class solidarity, personally
This is fucking insane
and for Connecticut providers
Anybody from Connecticut care to respond. Why is your state so special?
From a more recent article where Anthem now says they won’t implement this policy:
Connecticut comptroller Sean Scanlon said the “concerning” policy wouldn’t affect the state after conversations with the insurance company. And New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an emailed statement Thursday that her office had also successfully intervened.
Don’t they have the closest thing to universal healthcare in the US?
Insurance pays out until outcome and not treatment. Meaning of they don’t cure you, insurance will have to cover until you die.
And if they kill you while trying to cure you, every care provider in the chain pays 10-times the cost (total insurance paid by patient over all the years) based on liability to the family else insurance pays 20-times total insurance cost to family.
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Biden could pardon the assassin…
And include future CEO-targeting crimes.
Someone should start a petition
Was thinking about it. Even if it’s not taken seriously and even if it never gets Joe Biden signature, this would be a real good way to send a message to the nation. Just how many people the absolute number of people who are angry to the point of letting people kill CEO’s Because of injustice and inequality.
He would have to be known. I would rather the guy stay anon so his life isn’t ruined. He can live the rest of his life without the fear of corpo vengeance. Also he probably would never be able to be insured again lol. Either that or he’s terminal and his care was denied so he had nothing to lose.
John Kramer, is that you?
I got diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in 2022 (cured now). I can totally see how someone could go full The Punisher on healthcare execs if their life-saving treatment was denied. The problem isn’t facing your own mortality, that doesn’t take long to process. What is an impossible pill to swallow is the thought of leaving your loved ones drowned in an avalanche of medical debt and possible financial ruin. Fuck that.
Deny
Depose
DefendPardons don’t have to be specific, they’ve been used to pardon whole groups of people before (although it’s properly called an amnesty, in that case) https://www.justsecurity.org/73851/the-constitutionality-of-non-specific-pardons/
Doubtful. It’s probably a state crime.
Symbolic, doesn’t matter really.
It’s about sending a message
Oh I agree
How would Biden pardon him? Is there a federal crime here?
So it’s time to murder another ceo?
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Self defense is not murder
Sorry, I misspoke
The patient has a right to defend themselves and should get access to 2000 pound bombs.
Is this a reference to something?
Yes
What is it?
The IDF likes to defend themselves with 2000 pound bombs.
Oh
Rejecting torture.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Koziara_Boudreaux
She also worked for UnitedHealth as an executive, just saying
She was their CEO for a while.
One can hope
