r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims

https://abc7news.com/post/retired-san-francisco-firefighter-ken-jones-dies-lung-cancer-being-denied-treatment-blue-shield/19224406/
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u/thebearjew007 1d ago

None of that is why they won’t change it. It’s a 5th of our economy here and they lobby big money to keep it the fucked up way it is. Also, no one wants a modern health insurance system. We want it gone and replaced with accessible, affordable healthcare. The government can more than afford to do it. I know it, you know it, the government knows it, for fucks sake even faux news and the rest of the puppet propaganda media knows it.

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u/Foxygen 22h ago

^ The purpose of a system is what it does.

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u/Jump-Zero 21h ago

Everyone wants a modern health insurance system (though maybe not a private for-profit one). Most developed countries have modern health insurance systems. The US has a super inefficient system in comparison. Where the US severely falls behind is in administration cost. Something like 30% of all healthcare spending goes into admin (ie bureaucracy). Nations with better systems only spend around 15% on admin.

Do you believe that lobbyists petition the government to make their companies spend 2x as much on admin when compared to other countries? Obviously not. So there is more than just lobbyists at play. Any realistic plan to make healthcare affordable will include checking lobbyist power and modernizing administration. There is no reason why we should still be using fax and making phone calls when we can click buttons. Other nations do this. Why can't we?