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How often do health insurers say no to patients? (2023)

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94 points lentoutcry | 1 comments | 06 Sep 25 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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lordnacho ◴[06 Sep 25 22:31 UTC] No.45153515[source]▶
I thought I saw a meme about denail rates when that healthcare CEO got shot? Where did those numbers come from?
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carabiner ◴[06 Sep 25 23:08 UTC] No.45153743[source]▶
FYI the shooter has received $1.2m in donations for his defense fund, and counting.
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danaris ◴[06 Sep 25 23:24 UTC] No.45153822[source]▶
The accused shooter.

Firstly, Luigi Mangione is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Secondly, there's a fair amount of real evidence that Luigi is being set up as a scapegoat by the NYPD—a police department with a known history of planted evidence.

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kstrauser ◴[07 Sep 25 00:08 UTC] No.45154043[source]▶
First part: yes, definitely. That’s a critical part of how the system works.

Second part: I’m not buying that for a moment. It’s way easier for me to believe that an individual working alone, screwed over by a megacorp who earns more based on how many people they can deny healthcare to, had enough and went vigilante. Vigilanteism and cold blooded murder are not OK, but it’s pretty easy to link cause and effect there. That’s vastly more likely than a shadow conspiracy that’s managed to keep its mouth shut so far.

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1. danaris ◴[07 Sep 25 02:06 UTC] No.45154727[source]▶
> It’s way easier for me to believe that an individual working alone, screwed over by a megacorp who earns more based on how many people they can deny healthcare to, had enough and went vigilante.

This does not contradict what I said.

I make no claims about just who or what the actual shooter was. I merely claim that it almost certainly wasn't Luigi Mangione.