I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

  • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.”

    In related news, 81 percent of diners at Michelin star restaurants rated their own food security as “excellent” or “good”.

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      18 hours ago

      Also kind of ignoring the fact that the point of insurance is that most people, maybe around 81% for instance, don’t need to use it to its full extreme. And obviously those people are going to be more likely to have a generally positive view of it.

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      17 hours ago

      I think if you sat people down and showed them how much they pay for health insurance, showed what they got out of their medical insurance, and the actual cost of those procedures, that very few people would rate it highly.

      For a system like capitalism that prides itself on market forces, no one has a clue about how and why insurance operates the way it does.

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        15 hours ago

        Well, pointedly, the question was not: “Does your current health insurance provide good value?”

        I’m betting a hell of a lot less than 81% of people would rate value as “excellent” or “good”.