That's the point, we're not living a neutral situation, we're under attack by bad people doing disgusting jobs

It isn't. It's inhumane the way these companies are behaving. They're a threat to society and this is humans' instinctual response to eliminating threats.

We are giving thousands of dollars of our money to a company to insure that our life and health will be taken care of, it should NOT be up to these companies what methods of remedies that a person needs to be kept alive and healthy are "deemed necessary"

Furthermore; these companies CEO should NEVER be paid more than a ~~average~~ median citizen... full stop. There's no reason an insurance company employee owns a yacht.

because apparently, the alternative is communism, and it will have death panels that will decide if you get to live in order to save costs...

The Acquired podcast went over this history very briefly in their Epic episode and it's so crazy how close we were to having universal healthcare.

Tl;dl:

• during WW2, wage controls were in place due to a large demand of workers but very few people available due to being in the war
• unions and companies alike were looking for ways to make their positions and companies more attractive.
• government permitted benefits to augment salaries. Some companies started offering health insurance.
• back then going to the doctor was NOT the bankrupt causing thing that is today and was considered a fringe benefit
• larger companies were able to offer better incentives due to healthcare benefits
• add a few years of corruption and "market forces" and you have the system we have now

So blame wage controls during WW2.

Oh and the Brits were facing similar forces when they were starting to stand up their healthcare system but decided instead to hire people to build a robust system so everyone didn't have to pay anything at the point of sale.

Yeah, it really was that simple.

Every accusation is a confession with Republicans

You probably already know but, those arguments aren't why the GOP were outraged. It's what they thought would be most likely to get the public outraged.

Guillotines are too 18th century. I am a fan of woodchippers. Feet first, of course!

I work in EMS. My advice to students and brand new EMTs is always the same: don't freak out when your patient is in cardiac arrest. Those are the easy calls. I have to keep people alive and if someone is crashing in front of me I have to figure out why and what I can try to do to stop it so they don't die. The ones that are already in cardiac arrest aren't getting any more dead, and the only outcomes are that we improve on that or we don't. We can't make them worse. Dead is the most stable condition.

Edit: That said, one of my favorite things about working in EMS is that I don't have to care about "medically necessary" or insurance companies. If I think my patient needs a treatment and it's in my protocol to give it, I give it. I don't have to ask for an insurance company's approval or get a payment method from my patients, I just get to help people.

You are also dying in the future. So no treatment for you. It's even cheaper the sooner you die. And since you don't need money after you've died, lets make your last days so expensive that we can extract all the money from you and if possible from the rest of your family. Profit.

In the NY Post linked article:

Per KFF, the late Tennant was insured by the Public Employees Insurance Agency of West Virginia, which partners with UnitedHealthcare. (The Post reached out to both agencies for comment.)