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“UHC has the highest instance of denials out of all major providers, refusing an estimated one-third of claims submitted … UnitedHealthcare also has the largest market share of health insurance policies, with roughly $215 billion in revenue.”

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You kill one man, it’s murder. You result in the deaths of a million people, it’s just business.

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UnitedHealthcare Denies More Claims Than Other Insurers — Angering Patients And Health Systems

According to the most recent available data, the insurer refused an estimated one-third of claims submitted, prompting an outpouring of frustration after its CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed this week.
Amy Feldman (Forbes)
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Andrew
Andrew
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It speaks volumes about America's priorities that they deploy half the NYPD to investigate the murder of this one man along with rolling news coverage, but deliberately killing people en masse by refusing them essential healthcare is deemed par for the course and entirely unremarkable
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@Shivviness Not too surprising. It used to be that owning slaves was legal and escaping slavery was a crime. Law does not imply justice.
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Andrew
Andrew
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I was saddened to see so many people on here and elsewhere yesterday decrying this act because "it was against the law".
As you say, law does not imply justice, and this is especially so when the law effectively doesn't apply to elites
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Michæl La💤
Michæl La💤
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Spoilers: The final scene from "The Third Man" appears relevant to the US private health business model.

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Viral Obscurity
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its like the Eddie Izzard joke

"You kill 1 person, you go to prison
You kill 10 people, you go to Texas and they hit you with a brick
You kill 20 people, you go to a hospital and they look at you through a small window forever

but over that we can't comprehend that. If someone kills 100,000 people we're almost saying well done"

That's kind of what were are dealing with with the large numbers of deaths related to declined treatment

Capitalism rewards "numbers go up" in all forms

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