Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system
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It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.
“I’d rather die than owe the hospital til I get old” — Courtney Barnett When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in the street in cold blood the other day, a bunch of people on the internet gloated and cheered: The jokes came streaming in on every social-media platform, in the comments underneath every news article. “I’m sorry, prior authorization is required for thoughts and prayers,” someone commented on TikTok, a response that got more than fifteen thousand likes. “Does he have a history of shootings? Denied coverage,” another person wrote, under an Instagram post from…
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