True, the hospital could be doing the bare minimum to keep him alive. But I get what the person you’re relying to is saying. Surely if you’re a capitalist ghoul who runs both a health insurance company and a hospital, you would want as little overlap between customers as possible in order to maximize profits, right? The people paying you insurance premiums would ideally never get sick and require the insurance to pay out, and the hospital would ideally be full of people with other insurance plans.
In the fictional universe that we’re talking about, which is an allegory of our own world, did I miss the comic where Bruce Wayne runs an insurance company as well as hospitals or is this head canon?
Most indigent people, such as disabled henchmen here, likely would be covered by Medicaid. So the joke would stand that Bruce is benefiting selfishly through his hospitals providing marked up care at the government’s expense.
I mean, this is much more believable behavior from billionaires than what’s normally depicted, lol
I think it’s just people assuming Wayne Enterprises is one of those evil all-encompassing mega-conglomerates common in fiction, like Buy n’ Large, Wayland-Yutani, or Amazon.
I think the insurance company part was invented by this comic but I didn’t know a ton about Batman. I did see online that Wayne Medical is a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises and operates many of the hospitals in Gotham.
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Health Insurance isn’t Health Care
True, the hospital could be doing the bare minimum to keep him alive. But I get what the person you’re relying to is saying. Surely if you’re a capitalist ghoul who runs both a health insurance company and a hospital, you would want as little overlap between customers as possible in order to maximize profits, right? The people paying you insurance premiums would ideally never get sick and require the insurance to pay out, and the hospital would ideally be full of people with other insurance plans.
In the fictional universe that we’re talking about, which is an allegory of our own world, did I miss the comic where Bruce Wayne runs an insurance company as well as hospitals or is this head canon?
Most indigent people, such as disabled henchmen here, likely would be covered by Medicaid. So the joke would stand that Bruce is benefiting selfishly through his hospitals providing marked up care at the government’s expense.
I mean, this is much more believable behavior from billionaires than what’s normally depicted, lol
I think it’s just people assuming Wayne Enterprises is one of those evil all-encompassing mega-conglomerates common in fiction, like Buy n’ Large, Wayland-Yutani, or Amazon.
I think the insurance company part was invented by this comic but I didn’t know a ton about Batman. I did see online that Wayne Medical is a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises and operates many of the hospitals in Gotham.