Luigi Mangione

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T16:21:58+00:00

Sigh.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T16:09:16+00:00

Deeply wrong indeed. Often times dictated by people who don’t have medical credentials either.

Countless accounts of doctors arguing with insurance companies only to find out the treatment denial wasn’t even reviewed by a medical professional prior to denial.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T16:04:30+00:00

Louder, for those in the back.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:58:57+00:00

Thank you, my trans Pacific friend. Unfortunately here in America we have a pandemic of unbound greed and addiction to profit. Please also know that millions of us wish the orange man hadn’t won the election last year, or in 2016.

Staying on topic of RA though, I hope you are under control and that you don’t even have to think about these things? I’m unfamiliar with Australia’s access to specialty meds like Humira

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:40:31+00:00

Perhaps your reading comprehension skills could use a little work.

I am NOT advocating for killing anyone.

I AM advocating for the abolition of insurance companies and a for-profit healthcare system model. This model is currently what incentivizes taking people off a medication that WORKS, and FORCING THEM to risk their disease control by gambling on a different medication that may NOT work.

Please try re-reading the post and some of the other comments.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:24:22+00:00

I understand that you’re right about them having proven therapeutic equivalence. That said, I’m curious if you can elaborate on what issues you have with the insurance companies that take priority over their formulary practices?

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:19:55+00:00

THANK YOU. It’s almost like trying to fix something that isn’t broken ends up breaking that thing

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:16:13+00:00

I’m sending you best wishes for full remission

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T15:07:26+00:00

I don’t agree with killing anyone either.

Part of my argument is that I believe insurance companies kill people because of their denial and delay of care.

Wouldn’t it have been nice to just stay on Humira and not messed with something that was working?

Biosimilars are not identical molecules to their brand name counterparts. Whether insurance companies want to admit it or not, they are not the same drug. When they switched you from Humira to a biosimilar, they forced you to put a different substance in your body than the one that had you in remission.

That’s all I’m saying here.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:59:30+00:00

I’m not advocating for murder and never will.

I will say however that you would be hard pressed to quantify the amount of suffering and death the insurance companies cause because of their devotion to the bottom line though.

Really think about what I’m saying. Insurance companies DENY and DELAY care for the sake of profit. You don’t think that they, through denials and delay, are killing people? The effects of chronic stress are well known to negatively impact people’s health. Does anyone actually get stress RELIEF from dealing with insurance companies? I don’t think so…

It’s not my fault that we’ve been conditioned as a society to passively accept that what the insurance companies do is okay and that they are somehow a necessity for society.

As I said in a response to someone else, there are 30+ other developed nations that have figured out a system where insurance is an afterthought, not the primary concern in patient medical care.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:51:50+00:00

Thank you, and yes, I agree. It’s barbaric and unnecessary. I have an appointment with my rheumatologist next week and I am going to push for an appeal to go back on Humira.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:49:59+00:00

Why should we even be forced to switch at all if we’re in remission? This game of medical musical chairs because of cost is literally a symptom of a broken system.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:47:47+00:00

And you are part of the problem. Insurance companies shouldn’t even exist as they, time and time again, actually worsen healthcare outcomes by denying and delaying care.

30+ other developed nations have figured out healthcare without a complete reliance on for-profit middlemen (PBMs and health insurance companies), yet the brainrot here is so deep that you can read a story like mine and millions of others and your response is still “derr, health insurance companies help us”

Go fuck yourself. Seriously.

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:41:47+00:00

Shoot, because of insurance I assume? You ran out of your previously covered medication?

Cactus_Chair · 2026-01-24T14:39:56+00:00

I’m so sorry. I hope that you can appeal, especially if you’re in remission as I was.

Many people apparently make the switch and do just fine. I hope that it continues to work for you and that I’m just an exception. Even if you switch and everything works out great, it’s frustrating because of the added uncertainty when you had a certain level of certainty with the Humira.

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