“Please don’t kill me. :(“ Begs UnitedHealth CEO
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Not really, he's doubling down:
“Many of you knew Brian … he devoted his time to help make the health system work better for all of the people we’re privileged to serve.”
for all of the people we’re privileged to serve.
They serve the shareholders.
So it's a true statement in the sense that they made the healthcare system better at extracting profit from their costumers to serve the shareholders. Death and suffering is just a method. Andrew Witty, what a soulless shit.
Just trying to reframe the narrative.
"The insurance companies are the good guys, fighting against outrageous hospital charges, doctors fraudulently demanding excessive tests and care, and odious government regulations."
for all of the people we’re privileged to serve
This is Corporate America slight of hand, they think the people they serve are the shareholders, not their customers. Their customers are an operating cost to them and they'll do what they can to keep that cost down so they can maximize their profits.
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"Don't mistake their self-preservation for empathy." -Josh Johnson
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"The system needs to function better," says the figurehead of a completely unnecessary middleman.
Cool. Shut down your company and tell everyone else in your network to do the same.
But then who will protect us from "unnecessary care"? He's just trying not to get shot
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While lower prices and improved services can be good for consumers and patients, Witty said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on charging more for care.”
are they a health insurance or a revenue stream insurance?
are they a health insurance or a revenue stream insurance?
Come now, I think we already have that answer.
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That has to be one of the most tone deaf and evil (the banal greedy kind) of things I've ever heard.
While law enforcement can be good for citizens and society, Capone said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on doing crime.”
Same vibe right?
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wow he really said this?
“Participants in the system,” he said, derive benefit from high health care costs. While lower prices and improved services can be good for consumers and patients, Witty said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on charging more for care.”
Yes this basic human right could be cheap or even free, but then how would shareholders make more money exploiting it?
He's also just straight up lying. I'm a participant in the system with chronic health issues. I would have benefited more from never going to see a doctor and kept my family out of debt than what I ended up doing.
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Agreed. Ask the government to take you and the other big insurers over, and fire your overhead asses.
“We only do reprehensible things because we’re allowed to. We would totally be ethical if forced to!”
Here's an idea. Take out the pieces that inflate costs, provide no actual healthcare, and make ridiculous profits.
But that's him and his company! 😯
Luigi Mangione did more for the American health care system than any health insurance CEO. Just to clarify, killing a man is deplorable but the fact that his actions sparked these debates and brought them to everyone's attention should make everyone aware of what his actions caused.
killing a man is deplorable
Killing a cold blooded murderer is... well, even if you don't believe it's justice it's definitely not something to cry about.
I've seen arguments for it being self defense, especially if you have united insurance.
They've "legally" killed thousands of people through paperwork.
Not to mention CEO has to be the most replaceable job ever. It's the one job I'm 100% chatgpt could do better, and save these companies millions every year.
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They say this because...
... anyone?
That's right, Timmy, it's because they want to execute a large merger once Trump is in power.
“We’ll be able to improve efficiency, reduce duplicative effort and increase profits.”
“And lower rates?”
“What?”
I hear Mario bros music....
"Somebody involved in it, perhaps towards the top, should do something about that", he continued.
“I mean, not me. I only just got this job. Still finding my way. But someone should definitely do something. Gonna be a lot of work figuring out what should be done. It’s just so complicated. We’re going to have to invent some way to make sure everyone can access competent and affordable healthcare. How do you do that? Where do you even start? What a monumental task. But think of the accomplishment if we could do that. Think of the example we’d be setting for so many other nations. We’d be pretty great. I mean we already are pretty great, but we’d be better. Man, we’d be awesome.” At this point he’s gone, like a poor person dreaming about what they’d do if they won the lottery.
Translation: "Needs to function better *for me and my company's earnings report"
Thieves guild boss says people should earn more and have more money in their wallets.
Now that is funny.
By getting rid of private health insurance.
Says the insurance company adding friction into it and telling doctors that they know better which treatment should be done.
Which means removing your company from the equation. It's the cause of the system not functioning
"We can't lower costs. We won't make as much money."
you're going to get lip service and faux sympathy, but at least you got them talking about it. this is a clear example of how the only thing the american people have left to create change is violence.
It needs to function without a layer of parasites between doctors and patients.
More green plumbers please.
What a headline...'I thought they need to get worse'
Said no one ever about anything sensibly...
Ha ha ha ha ha DUH
And to do that they are going to increase premiums and double your max out of pocket limit every year. Perfect!
Edit: ok having read the article it looks like he is going to push for regulating pharmaceutical companies while simultaneously pushing for states with stricter insurance regulations to be forced (via federal courts or legislation) to lower their standards.
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UnitedHealth CEO says U.S. health system 'needs to function better'
UnitedHealth CEO says U.S. health system needs to bend in such a way that UHC makes more money by the government making sure they get more money and that it’s everyone else’s fault the HC system sucks because they need to make more money. Everything will be better when they make more money.
Burglar says houses, "shouldn't be so easy to break into."
He's right. Let's get rid of the part that doesn't function well. His entire industry.
All it does is put barriers between patients, their doctors, and the care they need while increasing costs with no actual benefit to anyone other than the insurance executives. Nearly every job in the industry would still be needed under a universal health care system, there just wouldn't be a middle man increasing prices by billions every year so they can make a profit.
New bargaining chip at the table: his balls and a tenderizer on a wooden slab.
Let us commence the negotiations.
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