1. El Símil de la Mafia y la Extorsión.
Los usuarios comparan directamente a las compañías de seguros de salud con la mafia, describiendo su modelo de negocio como un "protection racket" (red de extorsión) donde se exige un pago a cambio de una protección que a menudo no se materializa. La analogía subraya la naturaleza coercitiva y parasitaria que perciben en el sistema.
- I just realized our healthcare system is a protection racket. It’s run like a mafia. A legalized mafia.
- Health insurance is a protection racket. The mafia was like ‘damn these guys are stealing our ideas’.
- The difference between the us health insurance business and a mafia protection racket is that the mafia actually gives a fuck if someone else breaks your leg.
- Us healthcare is just mafia style extortion. Mafia: “give us all your money or else we’ll break your legs” us healthcare: “your legs are broken? give us all your money.”.
- You pay health insurance companies for medical care, the same way you would pay the mafia for 'protection' neither group is actually offering a service, but watch what happens if you don't pay.
2. La Negación de Cuidado como Modelo de Negocio.
Se argumenta que el principal objetivo de las aseguradoras no es proveer salud, sino generar ganancias a través de la negación sistemática de cobertura y tratamientos. Se destaca la ironía de que su rentabilidad aumenta al incumplir el propósito para el cual fueron contratadas, comparando sus beneficios con las ganancias históricas del crimen organizado.
- Here in the usa is a mafia to financially benefit the ceos and it makes a highly profitable business by denying coverage.
- If a corporation’s sole purpose is to take your money for healthcare, and when you need healthcare, they then deny, the answer is yes. It is a criminal organization dedicated to theft and murder, just like the mafia.
- At its peak in the 1980's the us mafia was making between 50-90bn a year. In 2023 the health insurance companies made 88bn in profits, and this was after tens or hundreds of billions in bonuses, ceo wages, and share buybacks. All for simply denying people care.
- The business has become denying coverage. Not providing it. Medical mafia murderers.
- Basically, insurance is a legalized mafia. They have 49 million members but deny 31.5 million coverage, and that's somehow considered legal and definitely something the mafia would do.
3. Consecuencias Mortales y Responsabilidad Moral.
Las publicaciones denuncian que la negación de cuidados tiene consecuencias fatales, atribuyendo miles de muertes anuales a las decisiones de las aseguradoras. Los ejecutivos son descritos como figuras sin moralidad, comparables a sicarios, que administran la muerte a través de la burocracia para maximizar beneficios.
- These people kill 45,00 americans a year by denying people the healthcare service they need unless they pay. Many can’t. So they die because the subscription fee is too high.
- It is organised crime and it kills way more people than any mafia outfit. It is the worst aspect of capitalism and the purest form of greed.
- Health insurance corporation executives & bean counters have the morality of a mafia hit man.
- Insurance companies are in the business of murder for profit. Mafia like, with ceo’s as godfathers.
- I consider the health insurance mafia kingpin to be much worse. Like the nazis, he performed mass murder via bureaucracy. You can’t kill people with bullets as fast as you can with bureaucracy.
4. Reacciones al Asesinato de un CEO.
El asesinato de un CEO de UnitedHealthcare, a quien se refieren con el nombre "Luigi", es un tema recurrente. Lejos de condenar el acto, muchos usuarios lo justifican como una consecuencia inevitable de un sistema criminal. La falta de empatía hacia el ejecutivo asesinado se equipara a la que se sentiría por la muerte de un jefe de la mafia.
- And this is why i will never feel bad about what luigi did. They want me to sympathize with the ceo of a company who does this, i don't think so. What luigi did was murder but this isn't?
- And the can't understand why the ceo was killed . Insurance companies are the mafia.
- Given their brazen greed and exploitative nature, and willingness to watch others suffer and die for profit, it makes sense that people are reacting to the murder of a health insurer ceo with the same empathy of a mafia boss getting murdered.
- Luigi killed a mob boss. Ceos of healthcare sell drugs at massive profits and deal in death and suffering. Is it any wonder people are not sad about a mafia hit?
- Private insurance is a mafia people pay protection money to and nobody was shocked a mob boss finally got hit.
5. Crítica al Lobbying y Propuestas de Reforma.
Se identifica la influencia política a través del lobbying como el mecanismo que protege a esta "mafia" y previene la aplicación de leyes antimonopolio como la ley RICO. Como solución, se propone de forma insistente la eliminación de las aseguradoras privadas y la implementación de un sistema de salud universal y sin fines de lucro, como "Bernie Care" o "Medicare for All".
- Well yeah it operates like a mafia because multi-billion dollar corporations influence the government via lobbying/citizen's united to enrich themselves.
- I just cannot understand why the rico laws don’t apply to the health insurance industry. Oh yeah. Right. The health care mafia can legally bribe the politicians to keep them out of jail with election campaign donations.
- End this corporate mafia predation and create bernie care! a non profit collective medical system by design has lower costs.
- We need to eliminate insurance companies & move to universal healthcare similar to what most of the world has. Insurance companies literally produce nothing and profit by denying claims.
- The aca is trying to get you excited about paying the mafia their tribute. Don’t buy into the bullshit. It’s universal health care or nothing. We want what the rest of the world has.