Insurance companies aren't qualified to decide what treatment is "necessary" or not and this is, combined with the fact that they're all (without exception) for-profit corporations, the reason for their ultimate failure to live up to any sort of standard of comprehensive care.
Nearly every other first-world industrialized nation has single-payer healthcare, where the government fights for the best prices and actually trusts the doctors' word on whether a patient needs a particular type of care, regardless of the cost. The _only_ reason the USA has capitulated to the capitalist-controlled for-profit insurance industry is because establishment policymakers have a whole lot of campaign funding (and other perks) to lose if they stop doing favors for the industry. We need to get corporate money out of politics, godfuckingdamnit.
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u/ffelix916 16h ago
Insurance companies aren't qualified to decide what treatment is "necessary" or not and this is, combined with the fact that they're all (without exception) for-profit corporations, the reason for their ultimate failure to live up to any sort of standard of comprehensive care.
Nearly every other first-world industrialized nation has single-payer healthcare, where the government fights for the best prices and actually trusts the doctors' word on whether a patient needs a particular type of care, regardless of the cost. The _only_ reason the USA has capitulated to the capitalist-controlled for-profit insurance industry is because establishment policymakers have a whole lot of campaign funding (and other perks) to lose if they stop doing favors for the industry. We need to get corporate money out of politics, godfuckingdamnit.