but that’s really all they do.

“was one of the people trying to make it better”?
Ummm, yeah. No. I call BS. That guy was working on an AI project that would help make claims denials faster and easier.

Stop gaslighting people, assclown.

and I hope he's serious about hearing feedback. Personally, I would far prefer single payer. But if we are stuck with this mess, I'd like to see improvement from him (full disclosure my family has UHC through work & we've had both ups and downs w/them).

He sounds as if that was hard to do, but it's really very easy.
Stop denying so many claims; start giving people the money they need to get the healthcare they need.
It's no big fucking deal, just do it!

...."public service" and "profit" don't play too well together. What kind of CEO would accept 3% growth instead of 8%, just to make people healthier?

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

when weighed against the value of a human life. I wonder how much $$$$$ He got paid for each word?

who don't give a fuck about care and have no fucking reason to.

Mealy mouth words, no other country spends as much on health care nor has such bad overal national health.

He was shot while on his way to a meeting with major stockholders to tell them about how he had increased profits .

Why was he not on his way to a meeting with physicians and patients?

And, no, I will not include the disclaimers about not shooting executives.

That is exactly the word, “patchwork,” I have used to describe the German health insurance system ever since my first personal encounter with it. Luckily, I had one of the friendly natives (my wife) to help explain it to me, and help me navigate it. When my quote came in ($35,000 a year), I said Danke, but nein danke. You need health insurance before you can get a residence permit here, but luckily the Germans bought the fiction that Blue Cross, which is what I have, is really health insurance. If United is a one on a scale of 100, then Blue Cross is maybe a two and a half.

I keep seeing the fiction that health care and insurance is free in Germany perpetuated, even here on DU, but it remains a fiction. Still, at least the German patchwork has far fewer holes than the American patchwork. The number of Germans without health insurance numbers in the hundreds of thousands, where in the USA, the number is in the tens of millions

..stole this last election.

You need private insurance for two years and also pay into the local health plan monthly during that time..almost every country has some form of that re their health care for newbies to the country.

The answer to your query may not have been as satisfying as reading some fantasy website proclaiming that “everything is free in Europe,” but at least you were prepared for what awaited you if you made the move.

...my husband had pneumonia and wanted me to take him to the local er...where he worked! We had to ..of course...OK this with the HMO and they denied it saying we had to go to the open clinic 45 miles away.....who immediately sent him to our local ER we wanted to go to anyway.

But...when he had cancer years later they came thru and paid all the bills and even gave him some $$ for the time off work.

so who knows...

Every medical expense I had while my outfit used them remained “denied.” Luckily, this was mostly in Germany, so the serious stuff, though out-of-pocket, only cost me about a third of what it would have cost me in the U.S.

It is working precisely as it should.

Its purpose is profit.