Bullshit. In sane countries, if a doctor bills a service, the insurance simply has to pay it. In most health systems, if a licensed doc bills what is a normal unexceptional standard procedure for a condition, the insurance simply has to pay it. They're a licensed doctor. That's just one of the powers of their position. If an insurance company thinks a doctor is committing fraud, they can haul them in front of the medical licensing board and make them justify their diagnoses and treatments. Sane countries simply do not allow insurance companies to arbitrarily deny coverage for non-experimental, non-cosmetic medical treatment. If a doc sets a broken arm, insurance isn't even allowed to try and weasel their way out of covering it.

Most medical systems around the world work like this - by simply trusting the judgement of state licensed physicians. They do this, and the sky doesn't fall. And we're the ones stuck with the most expensive medical system on the planet.

Brian Robert Thompson, the serial killer that murdered 40,000 innocent people, did so by overruling doctors for profit by denying life saving medical care. In most countries his actions would have been a national scandal that would have seen him in a cell for the rest of his life. He was a mass murderer personally responsible for a dozen 9/11s. He literally dwarfed the body count of Osama bin Ladin.

United health cares experiments with randomly denying care falls under "saving life" to you? Seems like capitlist excess and murder to me. They have the highest denial of claims rate by far of any insurer. And they trusted claim denials to AI in order to save money, which they knew for a fact had a 90% error rate, such that 9 of 10 claims it denied were reversed on appeal. Only some people did not appeal, they just died having not appealed, or died waiting for the appeal process. Appeals take 60 days. During that 60 days people simply are denied the care their doctors are shouting that they need. Does being made to just sit and wait 60 days for your first appeal while a treatable cancer eats your insides sound ethical to you? You might get pissed during that wait period eh? Might start doing some target practice. If you did I wouldn't blame you one little bit. Self defense is what that is.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/

"The lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans" by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians that the expenses were medically necessary.

There IS such a thing as criminal mismanagement of a corporate entity, and I think united health care corporation deserves the corporate death penalty for this, and their executives who green lit this program should be imprisoned to the fullest penalty the law can provide for criminal negligence. THIS is exactly why everyone celebrates Mangione. And if laws dont exist to hold these people to account, we need politicians who will make some.