A breast cancer surgeon had to “scrub out mid-surgery” to call a UnitedHealthcare representative because the insurance giant questioned whether the procedure she was in the middle of performing was really necessary.
Dr. Elisabeth Potter posted her story to Instagram this week, and the post has gotten more than 221,000 likes.
Still wearing her scrub cap, Dr. Potter began her video saying, “It’s 2025, and navigating insurance has somehow just gotten worse.”
Mass movements always exist, you just have to join them.
But mass movements also demand a lot of your time and energy, which you may not have if you’re staring down the barrel of multiple major medical procedures. What’s more, they demand a political system receptive to their demands.
The appeal of stocastic violence is that it doesn’t require an enormous long term collaborative good faith effort. It just requires a few vigilantes with more rage than sense.
After decades of campaigning on health care reform (literally straight back to the 1940s) and posting a ton of Ls (particularly since Carter and the neoliberal turn), Luigi might not be transformative but he’s cathartic.
Not necessarily. That’s only for mass protests, which are the way Western governments trick their citizens into wasting their time and motivation without effecting real change. As you escalate you have methods like striking and rioting (and armed revolution if all else fails, but America isn’t that far gone yet) that are capable of twisting the elites’ arm into cooperating. This is why movements like the Civil Rights movement and early 20th century labor movements worked but the Iraq war protests didn’t. Ultimately protesting is an implied threat that means nothing if you have no intention to follow up on it.