I think a lot of discussion on lemmy assumes pretty strong polarization, you are either for all the people or against all the people.

In reality there is some spectrum of potential response to things in our society that aren’t good for the whole: you can deal with it (and bitch about it), something along the lines of civil disobedience in the middle, and violence on the other end. There is a lot of spectrum in the middle that seems to be just ignored, people either bitch about things, or they advocate for violence. The number of problems with the violence option is very high. Obviously doing nothing and bitching about it doesn’t actually accomplish anything because the system is rigged against us. I do think people really need to start thinking more creatively on that middle path though, is it harder, yes absolutely. Violence is easy, actually solving problems or at least strongly influencing the system in our favor, is much harder but I think it is the best approach.

Just throwing a random idea out there:

I know people care about privacy in health care a lot, but if we had a system where people could publish their claim denials (with personal info redacted), and we could openly compare decisions made by many insurance companies and call companies out on claim denials.

Someone could then start a non profit (and transparent) company that can take in donations and identify and fight outlier cases in court with the insurance companies.