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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disproportionately beat up those who don’t have bat insurance, and suppress the “conspiracy theory” that there is such a correlation.
You’re write, I missed that bit. I guess the fear of being disabled makes people want to get insured?
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.
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
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.
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