Comment by Arainach
1 year ago
"No evidence" - if you can't avoid misinterpreting every sentence to go off on a rant, this thread is not worth continuing.
Insurance companies spent billions of dollars on advertisements against the ACA. This is public record. They did it because they opposed all of the good things the act required - such as prohibiting discrimination base on pre-existing conditions or demographics (other than age), requiring many basic procedures to be covered, bans on lifetime/annual coverage maximums, bans on dropping policy holders when they get sick, prohibiting copays on various services such as vaccines, requiring that insurers spend at least 80% of their premiums on health costs, a wide array of reforms to constrain costs, and so on.
Someone claimed health insurance companies came up with “death panels”, I provided evidence and logic to the contrary.
No one is ranting, but there does seem to be a lot of “I feel like this could have happened, so I am going to choose to believe this happened because it confirms my priors”.
That's not correct. The OP said that
>we let insurance companies label government triage as "death panels"
Who said the term first doesn't matter. Who popularized it does. Insurance lobbyists and the conservative politicians they funded did.
And I see no sources that insurance companies had anything to do with it, just assertions.