A BlueCross To Die On
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Last week, a big public uproar forced the health-insurance carrier Anthem to backtrack on a plan to cut reimbursements for anesthesia. Then, an assassin—suspected to be a 26 year old ivy league graduate named Luigi Mangiano—murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare.
In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Why there such widespread progressive interest in both of these stories;
* How the progressive backlash against Anthem, driven by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, underscores just how thorny…
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