r/NoShitSherlock • u/StMaartenforme • 15d ago

UHC New York Times Oped

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/unitedhealth-group-ceo-andrew-witty-addresses-brian-thompson-death.html

Damage control as well as a NSS oped.

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u/husky_whisperer 15d ago

Still, the killing comes after a challenging year for the insurers, which are under pressure to shore up profits.

This should have been the entire article. One sentence sums up everything.

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u/alppu 15d ago

So he basically promises to sweeten up the denied insurance with a little text? Marvelous, you will still die of your illness but at least you have a little apology to go with it.

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u/Ghostbunney 15d ago

I hope he wets his murder bed every night. Piece of shit.

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u/godzillachilla 15d ago

I bet Witty is scared shitless.

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u/No_Clue_7894 15d ago edited 15d ago

Flawed ‼️⁉️

Annual Lobbying by UnitedHealth Group $5,860,000 Total Lobbying Expenditures, 2024

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u/Firm_Communication99 13d ago

I wish it was more, it’s nothing compared to the billions in profit.

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u/No_Clue_7894 13d ago

There’s more to it than meets the eye

Pharmacy Tech on why Luigi didn’t happen sooner

“ My first day at CVS I had to charge a man twelve hundred dollars for his monthly insulin, it wasn’t the CEO of whatever health insurance company he had that decided to charge him that, I had to stand there and look him in the eye, it was the 20 year old that made $9/an hour.

Another time I had to tell a mom wasn’t going to cover her child’s life saving cancer medication.

I had to explain the process of prior authorization to patients who needed their seizure medication that day and did not have time to wait for a prior authorization.

When I was 27 and my husband was diagnosed with cancer I had to split many thousands of dollars across several credit cards in order for him to have surgery, or he wasn’t going to have surgery.

I was charged $500 for my last PCP visit and that’s with insurance.

l’m knowingly going into a significant amount of debt to give birth because I have a 14,000 dollar deductible so no one should be surprised this happened “ End quote

Who is allowed to kill in America?

The Declaration of Independence and the American fight for independence served as a model for the French revolutionaries, particularly in the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”

So what do you think of the French Revolution which was inspired by our Founding Fathers and celebrated in America?

Were they justified in dragging aristocrats from their homes, decapitating them and parading their heads around on pikes? If so, what makes our modern Gilded Age different?

And why does this violence, of pulling out a gun and deliberately killing someone, resonate more with so many, than the violence doled out every day by Brian Thompson’s company?

Denying insurance claims is violence. The astronomical cost of health care in America forces people to choose between

death and bankruptcy every year

exacerbated by insurance companies trying to weasel their way out of their commitments

in the name of profit maximization

From its very bottom during the Great Financial Crisis in October 2008, UnitedHealth Group’s stock price is up nearly 4,000 percent. Over the same time that American life expectancy fell as the country got sicker, poorer and angrier at a system obviously designed to bilk them for profits at the expense of their health, health insurance profits boomed.

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u/NotABotABotNotABot 15d ago

It will happen.

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u/trasofsunnyvale 14d ago

It's not that what they're doing is wrong, it's that they haven't been able to explain it properly!