Just a handful of comments I've read on the topic:
I’m in pharmacy. I’ve been in pharmacy for nearly ten years. I’ve seen grown adults cry and beg for alternatives because their insurance denied it. I’ve seen pharmacists make us leave the room so they could buy a patients insulin and give it to them because they were out of government assistance “the doughnut hole” it was called.
I’ve watched as a patient turned from happy to be progressing through their day to devastated because their insurance refused to cover a medication that their doctor ordered.
Insurance companies are on par with arms dealers and sex traffickers in my mind. They arbitrarily put people in physical, emotional, and financial, hell by applying different rules however they want. They have little to no oversight, and they rape the American populace to the tune of tens of billions ($317 billion this year for United) and I’m supposed to feel bad for the man who leads the charge on cost cutting by butchering the lives of average Americans? How can I shed tears for a man who physically embodied the most ravenous perpetuation of greed and selfish skullduggery in American history.
His family is likely lost and hurt, I feel bad for them. But I hope they realize that the life they lived was from the gleeful rejection of care for the most needy. Their life was built on the backs of sick and dying Americans.
I’m a therapist and my internship was psychiatric residential treatment for adolescents. I’ll never forget how I started my career having to learn to professionally beg insurance companies to not pull funding for a suicidal teen in my care.
What were people expecting to happen in this sort of system? People would somehow celebrate the life of a CEO whose company brought misery and death for families and their loved ones?