Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 21, 2024

Delay, defer, deny.

If there’s a hot place, they are going there.

If only we could ensure that

Those two new souls are laughing behind him.

“The Sins of the Father Clause”

The pre-existing condition being lack of compassion in order to maximize profits?

Seems Wiley has chosen his standing point towards that inoccuousing of an CEO.

If only it worked in reality.

As someone with a medical pre-existing condition, the situation displayed in this comic deserves a hearty laugh from Nelson Muntz.

Doesn’t look that much like Brian Thompson, but I’m gonna guess it was inspired by him.

I’m a Septuagenarian and now realize I have a pre-existing condition…..I’m alive and I’d like to keep it that way!

What good is it if you own the world but lose your soul…

I’m sorry, Paradise is out of network.

Is that the dude from NY? Nahhh

With my cell phone company, all phones come with a one-year guarantee. However, if anything goes wrong it’s because you damaged it.

Would you sell a policy of fire insurance for a house that’s on fire?

Surprised that the claims adjuster even made it up there.

I knew a Claims Adjuster who worked for a major health insurance company. He cynically had in his office a framed poster of Nancy Reagan with her famous slogan “Just Say No!”

I have to wonder about this comic strip’s lead time. Was it already in the hopper before Brian Thompson’s murder? Within a day of that I had already heard jokes about his entry to Heaven being denied due to a “pre-existing condition.”

And just " why " is that person using a " IV " pole in heaven ?

Remember, it’s not fraud if you’re a big enough business.

Rule number one in the insurance industry: If you can’t win, cheat.

Rule number two in the insurance industry: If you are not winning, change the rules.

Oh if they only did that for Trumpublicans, it would be such a better place to go to.

We all want the same things in health care: top quality care, when and where we want/need it, and someone else to pay for it.

To some companies, being alive is a pre-existing condition.

Caught up in RED TAPE … Worse than going to H#!! … ;)

love this one!!!!!!!!!!

There is a long history of Christians coopting heathen holidays into the church, in order to bring in more people to give donations. Those cathedrals are expensive you know. . . Hence Winter Solstice > Christmas; Spring Equinox > Easter and so on.

The number of Gods is also a longstanding debate. The Christians claim they only have one God made of 3 parts. The Muslims say they don’t know how to count. The Hindus think the whole argument is silly, they have hundreds of Gods.

Humans seem willing to slaughter people at the drop of a hat, and will make up reasons for doing so. Perhaps its time for another reset? The Chicxulub impactor, 66 million years ago was the reset Mother Nature, the Force whatever you want to call it, used when the dinosaurs got boring.

As I started reading, I thought the guy being denied was going to turn out to be Brian Thompson.

Having a pre-existing condition shouldn’t have any effect on where you wind up in the afterlife

The ACA doesn’t apply at the Pearly Gates?

He is definitely headed downstairs. He made a lot of money through the pain and suffering of his fellow human beings, which he could have easily alleviated.

I quibble with the phrase “health-care system”. It’s misleading. In the 1st place, it’s not a system. A system is something that’s designed to achieve a particular end, in a coordinated way, usually as efficiently as possible. (Think computers or automobiles.) In the 2nd place, it’s not about care, it’s about capitalism.

What we have in lieu of a true health-care system (you know, the kind that every other industrialized democracy on the planet has and loves) is a haphazard scattering of profit centers concentrated in areas where the money is, with vast swaths of the nation under- or un-served. By contrast, the US Postal Service and the public schools are true systems that serve every square centimetre of the country. (And yes, the metric system too is a true system, well and intentionally designed, not like ACHU, the Accidental Collection of Heterogeneous Units that the US alone in the world still clings to.)

So I recommend using the phrase “health-insurance industry”, because it’s more accurate.

It has been said before, Healthcare is an oxymoron.

Too soon?

word of advice: the Pet medical insurance touted by SPCAs is an annual non-renewing policy, and pre-existing conditions are not covered. each new policy (annual) will not cover the pet’s diabetes, hyperthyroidism, etc, that was charged to last year’s policy because it is now a pre-existing condition. humans aren’t the only ones getting screwed by ruthless CEOs.

But, it’s no longer a person making up the reason(s) to deny a claim, is it?

Isn’t it now another function of AI?

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So, it’s nobody’s fault, right?

Very timely. I just had a homeowner’s insurance claim denied. With the usual bull****** justification.

If you think the healthcare industry is bad now, just wait to see how the Trump administration will ensure it only gets worse.

The Republican healthcare plan is you work, when you can’t anymore you die. The other option is you sell everything trying to live before you run out of money and die.

Yup, and it’s increasing the cost of taking ones animal to a veterinarian. They suck people in, then raise the rates and costs to the extreme. Sigh. Nothing like unregulated capitalism to destroy a nation and perhaps the world.

After all, they found lithium deposits in the states, with the TT administration it will become too toxic to live in those areas, as the mining will be unregulated.

The EPA won’t be a protection agency, but use workers taxes to pay for the cleanup of the toxic mess left behind by the mining companies. After all, cleaning up and being responsible for themselves would cut into the profits.

People are going to find out exactly why all those regulations were in place. Corporations and businesses in general have never proven to be reliable in their responsibilities. One only has to look at some of the recent toxic releases in Texas to get an idea of how bad it can get. Texas holds those companies at no accountability to the people that live and are effected by their companies failures to protect the people living near them.

Now with the Repubs poised to squash free speech it will be harder to keep tract or even learn about such things occurring. Do some searches, you may find examples of what I’m talking about.

Then there is President we didn’t elect Elon wanting to ensure not only his autonomous driving cars can operate anywhere, but that the accidents, injuries, and deaths they cause can’t be put into reports.

With more compromised conservative judges poised to be installed it could take decades to undo the damage, if it can ever be undone.

As it is, the people that voted for this, they may be in a cult, but they haven’t been duped. They joined up freely.

But the “Affordable Care Act” was going to “fix” all these issues. What a crock!!!

^ Said, no one, ever.

Companion piece to this is over on Jim Benton Cartoons :(

He didn’t buy an indulgence? Some insurance man.

Predestination.

Fortunately, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ended this problem ten years ago!

Per HHS:“Health insurance companies cannot refuse coverage or charge you more just because you have a “pre-existing condition” — that is, a health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts.

Health insurers can no longer charge more or deny coverage to you or your child because of a pre-existing health condition like asthma, diabetes, or cancer, as well as pregnancy. They cannot limit benefits for that condition either. Once you have insurance, they can’t refuse to cover treatment for your pre-existing condition.”

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If the gates of heaven are really about gotcha, then we’re all in trouble! Happy weekend!

When I got to Medicare age, I went with traditional. I didn’t want to deal with insurance companies and networks and all that anymore.

I don’t think the coal could get hot enough. Maybe throw in a lawyer to stoke the flames.

Being an amoral @_________ is not gonna get you into too many nice places.

Would you have trusted this man to sell you insurance? I once heard that insurance companies want you to give them staggering amounts of money with the understanding that you’ll NEVER need to us their services. When you do, all H#ll breaks out!