You know what? I’m okay with that. If someone spent $250k and 12 years training to become a doctor and save lives, I’m really okay with them having the Ferrari and the summer home in the Hamptons. Nurses do shit on a daily basis that you couldn’t get me to do if you held a literal gun to my head. Providing any kind of medical care is insanely demanding on every level- physical, mental, spiritual- and whatever they get paid for doing it, it isn’t enough.
My ex works for a company that makes medical equipment. They developed the artificial heart. They build insulin pumps that keep diabetic people walking around instead of hooked up to dialysis. They invented a device that reduces surgeries from a 12" incision to a pair of 1" incisions and cuts healing time by 3/4. Whatever they charge, it’s pretty likely worth it.
Drug companies are scamming us. There’s some major shit there that needs to change. But at the end of the day, vaccines work. Antibiotics and chemotherapy work. Despite their many, many flaws, they are producing drugs that save and improve lives.
Insurance companies, on the other hand, don’t provide a service. They don’t create products. They don’t develop new drugs or technologies or procedures or do anything to actually help people. Literally all they do is ration care and skim a profit from standing between doctors and patients and burying everyone around them in administrative costs for reams of paperwork. Fuck em.
