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Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity
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This just feeds into my disillusionment with science and technology. What is the point of having developed these incredible things to then not go and use them. I just have to spell it out now. What. The. Fuck. You know I was born into a modern age but looks like im going to die in the dark ages.
In capitalism, EVERYTHING only exists for profit. If there isn't money to be drained, it's tossed to the landfill
Including science.
We research profitable fields and defund unprofitable ones.
It’s not a Sci/Tech issue.
It’s a dystopian capitalism issue. When products that don’t have adequate profit margin and volume to make notable contributions to the bottom line, or worse yet, negativley affect the bottom line in a high per-unit cost, they are a liability. Profits direct research, too, unfortunately.
Humanity, quality of life, and all that medical shit is secondary or even further down the priority list for the corporations thinking about their profits first and the “service” last.
Capitalism is not the issue in this case. I'm certain that prostetics have adequate profit margins. It's a lucrative business.
The issue here is that the insurance company just doesn't want to pay for it.
It's the insurance company that doesn't have an adequate profit margin without screwing their customers over.
Capitalism is not the issue? Yet everything you just said the reason is for adequate profit margin is indeed capitalism.
Capitalism drives the health insurance company too. Greedy investors fund the health insurance decisions. All insurance companies, actually, with the possible exception of mutuals.
That's part of capitalism, too.
That's just greed. I hate capitalism as much as anyone else here, but there's no need to pin plain theft on any -ism.
That's capitalism. That's all it is.
Profit margin for who...? They already have your premium payments so actually covering your care gives them nothing, as far as they're concerned you can do one. That's why claim denial is the primary role of an insurance provider and all of its metrics, not coverage, the goal is to keep as much of your money as possible.
I’m not clear on the issue, in this case, with science and technology. Seems to me to be a problem with societies not caring for all their people.
It has to do with the motivation of folks to expand the limits of science and technology. Many folks who do that stuff genuinely are looking to improve life for all mankind.
That's capitalism
Science and technology become magic, accessible only by the Fair Folk while we toil away in the dirt.
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