seeing this, i am amazed no one shot one of these health insurance ceos sooner. sometimes people around me ask why i'm uninterested in a formal autism diagnosis given that recognizing myself as autistic informs much of my worldview. within my short lifetime, you could get told to fuck off and die by insurer's just for being autistic. it's really no wonder that my mother is seemingly psychologically incapable of improving her mental model of autism sufficiently to recognize the same patterns within herself: for almost her entire adult life, that was the kind of thing that meant you were going to get denied having health insurance. and really, no wonder so many older doctors obsessively tell you to lose weight; it's one thing today when preexisting conditions don't exist but if all my fat patients just kept getting murdered by insurance, i too would probably eventually become bigoted about the effects of weight on health. not much worse a health outcome than watching someone die from something that could have been prevented.