The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

This one’s a few days old, but I thought it was a good read.

[…] He dismissed the “idea that the American model of private insurance is uniquely evil and engaged in acts of social violence because it denies people too much treatment,” maintaining that all insurance systems, public or private, ration care.

But as I noted in the earlier FAIR article, the Commonwealth Fund (NBC, 9/19/24) found that the US system does, in fact, stand out among other peer nations, ranking “as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of healthcare.” Those areas the US falls short in include “preventing deaths, access (mainly because of high cost) and guaranteeing quality treatment for everyone.” The rest of the world is doing better than us on these scores, contrary to Douthat.

Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.

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  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    2 days ago

    I cancelled my NYT sub and wrote, among many things, that Bret Stephens article was absolute bullshit.

    On the feedback survey I received later asking if I’d come back, I repeated myself.

    They offered a discount and I said fuck off.

    I know it’s probably whatever, but I guess part of me hopes someone actually reads them.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 day ago

      I cancelled and did the same, but I still haven’t received a confirmation email that they said they would send. Im curious to see if I will have to fight with them next month, it wouldn’t shock me.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      but I guess part of me hopes someone actually reads them.

      Unfortunately, that’s incredibly unlikely these days, unless there’s a mass exodus. Everything is automated now. They don’t give two shits about the individual, or even the subscription of thousands of individuals. It has to significantly lower their revenue for them to take notice or read any feedback.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
        10·
        2 days ago

        Then all the better when the mass exodus does happen, someone finally reads them and we can laugh as they had the chance to know all along.