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Team WGM, I would very much appreciate your insights on this question about our current #healthcare system. Thanks for your vote!
The only way to truly fix our healthcare system is to remove it from a for-profit system and/or take power away from these companies to override the choices our doctors make for us.
Literally no healthcare company (a corporate organism made up of our most mediocre and uncreative) has the intelligence and on the ground context to make a better choice for our health than a highly trained doctor who sees us IRL or on zoom regularly
But also, we should not have a system in place where insurance companies can just decide “arbitrarily” not to cover something or pay people back for things. Mental health is the perfect example: we were told by UHC, Aetna, Et Al that they prefer to wait and see how a mental health company matures before agreeing to reimbursement with us. Not because they don’t have codes in place or systems in place for what we do, but to quote the UHC rep who asked me to buy him a martini “eh, I just don’t really feel like it”
so frankly, it’s wildly irresponsible that our least best and our least brightest have far reaching control over the health of every person
was that on your multiple choice list?
Wow, thanks for the comments, Daniel. I feel your response. Appreciate this thoughtful take. You're absolutely right—the misalignment of power and incentives is core to the dysfunction. When profit-driven intermediaries override clinical judgment or stall innovation out of indifference, everyone loses. My poll didn’t capture this nuance directly, but it’s an essential thread running beneath all four options. Thank you for naming it so clearly.
tbh it’s a weird subject that is both very nuanced but also ruled by several macro scale problems like what I mentioned. AT the end of the day you hit on it: we are allowing the insurers to make choices that experts are supposed to be there to make the call on. Whether that’s innovating or the care best for a patient.
But also tbh as someone who has spent the last two years trying to get the blessing of insurance companies to get repayment for mental health for his customers, we have given over all choice on the matter to people that you and I would literally never pay any mind or respect to in any other context (assholes, factotums, goobers).