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by jgon 12 days ago
You've come into this thread, which is about an article where a doctor talks about insurance denying care for her husband, ultimately resulting in his death, to basically say "This doesn't prove anything, and also in systems with government provided healthcare the same thing happens, the AI said so, so what can you do!?"

I just can't even imagine what your response would be to writing about your own experience in the legal profession, about a deeply hurtful or traumatic issue that happened to you, and then having some joker come in and post an AI transcript to basically say "I have no actual experience or expertise in your field but the bot says you're wrong".

What are you even hoping to contribute to this thread? You've done no work of your own, you seem to have barely understood the events described in the article, and you've attempted to immediately make it a political issue by bringing in a foreign government's healthcare system and deflecting. This is geniunely one of the least helpful things I've ever seen written by an ostensible "long-time contributor" to this site.

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The article doesn't just tell a story about one person, it makes a general point about the healthcare industry. The title is: "My husband’s suicide shows there’s something very wrong with the U.S. insurance industry."

How else are you supposed to evaluate the author's conclusion, other than to compare it to how other healthcare industries handle similar situations?

Why don't you ask it if there are similar personal stories to this happening in other countries?