Tell him to quit stealing everyone's lives and things might start working better
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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.
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.
Healing patients would “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on charging more for care.”
They prefer the endless treatment model.
So by extension, creating sick people is akin to opening a new account. (Aside: A good task for other parts of the institutional investors portfollio) And nobody wants to close a customer account.
His entire business model is based on reducing the efficiency of health care spending and he is directly incentivized to maximize profits by minimizing health care spending efficiency.
US health insurers literally offer zero social benefit. They should not exist as the entire industry in harmful rent seeking.
The concept of insurance makes sense - pooling risk so that everyone can share a little pain all the time, so that unlikely but catastrophic events don't wipe individuals out. Making this arrangement for-profit is asinine.
Insurance generally, yes. But health insurance, no, especially when it could be funded by taxes like in other countries and still have that same element of shared risk, but without the perverse incentive to let people die just to create a little more profit for the precious shareholders.
Which I appreciate is what you said, but I thought it bore repeating. Other forms of insurance I suspect would be harder to nationalise, but in theory there's no reason they couldn't.
Directly government-funded healthcare and government-run single payer insurance are essentially the same thing. There's some rationale for keeping the government-run single payer system (whether you call it insurance or not) at arm's length from the sitting government to prevent too much political chaotic nonsense each time another government takes power, but they achieve the same things in terms of health care delivery and risk management.
Bro literally said,that they don't care about anything but profits and are willing to kill people for this.
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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.
I hear Mario bros music....
It needs to function without a layer of parasites between doctors and patients.
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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“Please don’t kill me. :(“ Begs UnitedHealth CEO
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.”
wrote the same thing before reading the other comments ^^
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."
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lol someone doesn’t want to be next… so what changes is he going to be making?
The best way to achieve this is to entirely dismantle the US health insurance industry.
"The system needs to function better," says the figurehead of a completely unnecessary middleman.
What is he worried about?
Player 2
Nintendo announcing another Year of Luigi.
Mario, presumably
Bang bang bang
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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Fuck these guys. I feel sick just seeing their faces.
"We can't lower costs. We won't make as much money."
“We only do reprehensible things because we’re allowed to. We would totally be ethical if forced to!”
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?”
Agreed. Ask the government to take you and the other big insurers over, and fire your overhead asses.
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.
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Here's an idea. Take out the pieces that inflate costs, provide no actual healthcare, and make ridiculous profits.
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"Somebody involved in it, perhaps towards the top, should do something about that", he continued.
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