[AfterDeathComics] Batbills
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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
Health Insurance isn't Health Care
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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.
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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
I guess the question is if that's maybe better marketing. IE on this person yeah probably (though that also can be lowered if you own both the hospital and the insurance. But the side factor of perhaps the joker or penguin villain leaders, knowing that they need to have a good health insurance plan purchased for all of their minions
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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
Doesn't matter, he's running the hospital, not the health care.
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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
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So the insurance is killing him then.
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Doesn't matter, he's running the hospital, not the health care.
He's running both the hospital and the insurance company. And it's apparently good quality insurance, so they aren't skimping on his treatment. There's no way both the hospital and the insurance company can be profiting from this guy getting all the bones in his body broken. Not at the same time.
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So the insurance is killing him then.
Always has been.
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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 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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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
You see, as Batman sends more and more people to the hospital, the health insurance costs increase for everyone. And thus you have a direct flow of money from the public through the health insurance and the hospital to the pockets of Batman.
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He's running both the hospital and the insurance company. And it's apparently good quality insurance, so they aren't skimping on his treatment. There's no way both the hospital and the insurance company can be profiting from this guy getting all the bones in his body broken. Not at the same time.
You're write, I missed that bit. I guess the fear of being disabled makes people want to get insured?
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Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.
But people would know that health care is important
Batman isnt making every single criminal have to go to the hospital, but he is making them not want to take the risk
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He's running both the hospital and the insurance company. And it's apparently good quality insurance, so they aren't skimping on his treatment. There's no way both the hospital and the insurance company can be profiting from this guy getting all the bones in his body broken. Not at the same time.
Step 1. Sell insurance to criminal.
Step 2. Beat up criminal.
Step 3. Advertise loudly that criminal is lucky they have bat insurance or they'd be fucked.
Step 4. And this is the important one: don't beat up every single other person that then buys bat insurance, instead beat up those who might want to beat them up. -
Just remove the "and health insurance" and this works.
I love it when people play with the "Bruce Wayne is an evil oligarch" trope. Just look at Gotham, it's massively run down, and yet there are billionaires like Wayne at society events. Sure, he spends nights fighting crime (or at least criminals) as Batman, but does he pay his taxes? Does he employ lobbyists who lobby for tax breaks on billionaires, justifying it by thinking that without those tax breaks he couldn't afford to have Wayne Enterprises come up with such cool toys for Batman, and he wouldn't be as effective at fighting
crimecriminals? Surely, one of the best ways to reduce crime in Gotham wouldn't be to punch bad guys at night, but to ensure that there's a robust social safety net, and that there isn't such a vast wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots. But, we don't see either Batman or Bruce Wayne arguing for more taxes on the rich, more social programs for the poor, etc. It's more about having adventures and going to gala events.As for this comic, the only way health insurance companies benefit if someone requires life-long medical care is if they're not the ones footing the medical bill, and are just a proxy for government money. So, instead of "It's a good thing you have health insurance", "It's a good thing you're on Gothamcare Advantage by Wayne Enterprises". Similar to the scam that is Medicare Advantage.
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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.
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Just remove the "and health insurance" and this works.
I love it when people play with the "Bruce Wayne is an evil oligarch" trope. Just look at Gotham, it's massively run down, and yet there are billionaires like Wayne at society events. Sure, he spends nights fighting crime (or at least criminals) as Batman, but does he pay his taxes? Does he employ lobbyists who lobby for tax breaks on billionaires, justifying it by thinking that without those tax breaks he couldn't afford to have Wayne Enterprises come up with such cool toys for Batman, and he wouldn't be as effective at fighting
crimecriminals? Surely, one of the best ways to reduce crime in Gotham wouldn't be to punch bad guys at night, but to ensure that there's a robust social safety net, and that there isn't such a vast wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots. But, we don't see either Batman or Bruce Wayne arguing for more taxes on the rich, more social programs for the poor, etc. It's more about having adventures and going to gala events.As for this comic, the only way health insurance companies benefit if someone requires life-long medical care is if they're not the ones footing the medical bill, and are just a proxy for government money. So, instead of "It's a good thing you have health insurance", "It's a good thing you're on Gothamcare Advantage by Wayne Enterprises". Similar to the scam that is Medicare Advantage.
fighting crime (or at least criminals)
I like that you made that distinction.
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Just remove the "and health insurance" and this works.
I love it when people play with the "Bruce Wayne is an evil oligarch" trope. Just look at Gotham, it's massively run down, and yet there are billionaires like Wayne at society events. Sure, he spends nights fighting crime (or at least criminals) as Batman, but does he pay his taxes? Does he employ lobbyists who lobby for tax breaks on billionaires, justifying it by thinking that without those tax breaks he couldn't afford to have Wayne Enterprises come up with such cool toys for Batman, and he wouldn't be as effective at fighting
crimecriminals? Surely, one of the best ways to reduce crime in Gotham wouldn't be to punch bad guys at night, but to ensure that there's a robust social safety net, and that there isn't such a vast wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots. But, we don't see either Batman or Bruce Wayne arguing for more taxes on the rich, more social programs for the poor, etc. It's more about having adventures and going to gala events.As for this comic, the only way health insurance companies benefit if someone requires life-long medical care is if they're not the ones footing the medical bill, and are just a proxy for government money. So, instead of "It's a good thing you have health insurance", "It's a good thing you're on Gothamcare Advantage by Wayne Enterprises". Similar to the scam that is Medicare Advantage.
Bruce does plenty of good with his money, it just isn't really ever shown in anything other than comics.
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fighting crime (or at least criminals)
I like that you made that distinction.
It's true. If Bruce Wayne / Batman cared about fighting crime, he'd go after the root causes: desperation, corruption, inequality, etc. Instead he focuses on fighting criminals.
