Fun Facts For Modern People
By Mitch Berg
Fun Fact #1: The people cheering the political murder of another citizen – Brian Thompson, CEO of a company who’s one of the modern left’s betes noire – are the same people who want to disarm you.
Fun Fact #2: The people angry about that insurance companies – UHG today, but surely all the other ones before long – want to force you onto national health insurance, which doesn’t “deny claims” so much as stall, ration and – well, deny treatment, and are actively exploring (and in some cases have arrived at) “euthanasia”, sometimes without asking any kind of consent at all, and above whom there is nobody to appeal.
Did I say “fun”? I meant “illustrative”.
December 11th, 2024 at 7:05 am
Yes and yes. They are also people who do not understand who is the actual UHG customer.
December 11th, 2024 at 9:18 am
Many, if not most people in the US misunderstand health insurance. The primary driver of the cost has been and will continue to be Medicare. Do a search of the internet for a graph that charts healthcare costs over time, starting in the 1950s. You will find it on a parallel to the cost of living until 1965, when Medicare came into being. Then it increases steeply, where it continues today. Demand drives price. If national health care comes into being, expect that the governing lever or health spending will become treatment delays and denial. Next step will be ethical suicide parlors, in the words of Kurt Vonnegut. It’s already happening in other countries.
December 11th, 2024 at 9:38 am
Another thing driving the cost of insurance and medicine these days is the fact that most families do not have the “bandwidth” to do simple care for the disabled and elderly–Mom is by and large working outside the home. So where previously people would have been “home CNAs” working in Grandma’s bathroom breaks between the rest of her daily activities, now Grandma goes to a nursing home.
(I’m living this reality as my in-laws are needing a lot of care that the family cannot provide)
December 11th, 2024 at 10:54 am
Does anybody else remember “Major Medical?” It was insurance to cover, well, major medical expenses. Hospitalization. Surgery. It did not cover ordinary cuts and bruises and cold/flu … Mom took care of that. Everything else at the doctor’s office was pay-as-you-go.
The cost of pay-as-you-go was lower because the doctor did not employ a huge staff of medical records clerks to navigate Medicare and insurance reimbursement rules. Young families could afford Major Medical and made rational decisions on other care. Old people didn’t ride the Metro Mobility short bus to see the doctor for every little thing because it was fweeee.
Not saying it was perfect then, but was it worse than what we have now?
December 11th, 2024 at 7:16 pm
As P.J. O’Rourke observed, “If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.”
December 14th, 2024 at 11:46 am
I remember John, and it should go back to being that way. It WAS better than current. I don’t personally have much to complain about; I get ins very cheaply via my employer, basically about $50 per month off my paycheck. I have a lot going into my HSA however. I am 60 and in good health and rarely use it besides my annual. I have been a very ‘cheap’ consumer of health care. Hope it stays that way! lol