To the editor: Jamie Court docket is right that killing the chief govt of UnitedHealthcare will not solve the problems that the craven leaders of those insurance coverage firms created with their insurance policies of delay and deny.
Nevertheless, there’s lastly a public dialogue on the necessity to shield the insured when these seemingly soulless leaders breach their fiduciary duties and trigger hurt to those that in good religion invested in medical insurance for peace of thoughts and care.
CEOs ought to be alarmed by the outrage towards them that this killing has unleashed, as individuals share their mistreatment by the hands of those firms. However will they work to resolve the issues (unlikely), or will they circle the wagons?
So, Congress must act. The outraged have to put strain on their elected officers to carry these firms accountable; perhaps then their reprehensible conduct will probably be reformed.
Terry Shenkman, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: Strictly talking, insurance coverage firms neither deny nor present healthcare. They management cash.
If in case you have sufficient cash, or a health care provider, hospital or pharmacy prepared to deal with the affected person at a loss, you’ll obtain care.
The overly complicated system of insurance coverage, care suppliers, hospitals, attorneys, regulators, researchers and drug firms — a lot of whom search to make a revenue — leads to an enormous overhead. With an growing older inhabitants, the demand for service far exceeds the availability.
It’s obtained to be mounted, or the struggling will worsen.
Walter Maki, Torrance
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To the editor: Though inappropriate healthcare denials are a professional trigger for concern, the grasping and the cavalier possible is not going to be deterred by the specter of costly civil lawsuits that normally take a few years to resolve and don’t end in a dime popping out of the executives’ private pockets.
It’s maybe much more necessary to acknowledge that the principle impediment to good healthcare in our nation just isn’t such denials, however the barrier of affordability. Each should be addressed.
Hyman J. Milstein, M.D., Studio Metropolis
