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Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare (engadget.com)
hackingbear writes: When Anthem revealed a data breach that exposed the details of more than 80 million people, the incident raised a lot of questions: who would conduct such a hack against a health insurance firm? Investigators finally have some answers... and they're not quite what you'd expect. Reportedly, the culprits were Chinese hackers helping their nation understand how US medical care works. It may be part of a concerted campaign to get ready for 2020, when China plans to offer universal health care. Next, we should outsource politicians from China to fix our healthcare system.
Insurers exist to prevent people from understanding how healthcare works.
I'd rather trust the Chinese hackers over Engadget, thanks.
The United States - the most utterly dismal health care system in the industrialised world, is the last place on earth that anyone would look for a good example of how to implement health care. This looks like more US propaganda. Slashdot is rapidly becoming the mouth piece of a mad US regime, obsessed with China and Russia. The Chinese certainly have nothing to learn from the catastrophic failures of private sector profit from the sick and dying in America. Europe is the place to learn about how to implement health care correctly. The US system is truly awful, amoral, and utterly inhuman. If I lived there, I'd certainly leave. What an awful country.
The Chinese trying to understand our healthcare system? GOOD. LUCK. BTW if you do figure it out, please explain it to us, Much obliged.
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They were trying to figure out how not to do it.
No, they hacked an American health insurance company to figure out how healthcare in American got so broken. They probably don't want to make the same mistakes.
I think they would be trying to find out NOT how to do it.
The USA has the worst public healthcare system in the developed world on a cost benefit ratio.
Americans seem to have this; well if you get sick its your fault attitude; and that general free public healthcare, as offered by almost every other industrialised nation, is akin to a communist assault.
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No we don't. That's just media propaganda.
It's the damned truth. Look it up. It looks like you've been fed on a diet of too much talk radio propaganda yourself.
We eliminate the cost of insurance premiums by getting rid of the ridiculous cost structure of health care in this country. There are dozens of countries who already do this just fine, and the people there live longer and healthier lives. This isn't rocket science.
That's funny, I know a lot of Americans that have gotten shitty and incompetent health care, misdiagnoses, and poor coverage. As long as we're throwing around anecdotes, I know one guy that was forced to turn down a good job offer because their insurance wouldn't cover his cancer meds. I also know a woman who only stays with her abusive cheating husband because she can't afford insurance for her Crohn's disease.
I never understand arguments like yours. Our health care system sucks. It's just as prone to poor care as any other system. It reduces freedom of the individual (unless you count corporate "individuals," where it adds one more control over their employees). It's expensive, it doesn't cover everyone, and we all end up picking up the tab for the uninsured anyway. It ties health care to employment, which is ridiculous - people making close to minimum wage can't afford it without subsidies, and if you lose your job, you lose your insurance. And the insurance companies will do everything they can to discourage you from going to the doctor in the first place; that's what the deductible is for, as well as the common practice of having all the "in network" doctors based in another city.
No system is perfect, but ours is just downright bad. You want to say the Canadian system sucks, go ahead - but don't pretend that ours is great.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Obamacare has not made insurance more affordable, not even for "low paid working stiffs".
It certainly has. I had to drop my catastrophic-only insurance coverage around 2008 because it was just too expensive even for the limited coverage. Now with the medicaid expansion I've got full socialized medicine.
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