A breast cancer surgeon had to “scrub out mid-surgery” to call a UnitedHealthcare representative because the insurance giant questioned whether the procedure she was in the middle of performing was really necessary.
Dr. Elisabeth Potter posted her story to Instagram this week, and the post has gotten more than 221,000 likes.
Still wearing her scrub cap, Dr. Potter began her video saying, “It’s 2025, and navigating insurance has somehow just gotten worse.”
Nah, we need to realize this isn’t on any one person’s shoulders but on everybody and start a mass movement.
I’ve been hearing for decades that the 2nd amendment is fundamental to the American identity, because it’s supposed to be an insurance against this type of tyranny against the American people. There you have your mass movement, making claims on that insurance, using what’s purported to be fundamental to the national identity of the country. What tyranny is the 2nd amendment protecting against if this doesn’t make the cut?
It’s really hard to disagree with Luigi when he wrote “evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty”. Brutal honesty is what this state of affairs calls for. It’s time to water Jefferson’s proverbial tree of liberty.
Mass movements always exist, you just have to join them.
But mass movements also demand a lot of your time and energy, which you may not have if you’re staring down the barrel of multiple major medical procedures. What’s more, they demand a political system receptive to their demands.
The appeal of stocastic violence is that it doesn’t require an enormous long term collaborative good faith effort. It just requires a few vigilantes with more rage than sense.
After decades of campaigning on health care reform (literally straight back to the 1940s) and posting a ton of Ls (particularly since Carter and the neoliberal turn), Luigi might not be transformative but he’s cathartic.
A mass movement of bannable and actionable suggestions