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This is absolute gold! A professional from the health insurance sector, shares straightforward, mind-blowing facts.
It’s four minutes long, but absolutely 'must watch' if you live in the US.
#UnitedHealthcare #CEO #UHC #HealthInsurance #BigPharma #Doctors #Claims #Government
Since the Affordable Care Act’s passage, the top five health insurers’ annual profits have jumped 230 percent, with much of that going to #UnitedHealthcare
America’s largest health insurers have raked in more than $371 billion in profits since the passage of the #aca.
More than 40 percent of that net income went to UnitedHealth Group, whose annual profits skyrocketed by nearly 400 percent while the company denied nearly one in three medical claims from its policyholders.
Insurers garnered these profits as the average American families’ premiums have risen to nearly $26,000 a year. In all, since the ACA was passed in 2010, more than $9 trillion of revenue has flowed to the country’s largest health insurance companies.
#eattherich #MakeGuillotinesGreatAgain #uhc #uspol #healthcare
Y’all, let’s talk about American healthcare and Wall Street. Yes, insurance executives are monsters, but...the wolves of Wall Street are their masters: their relentless profit demands, their growing entanglement in the health care sector is a large factor in our pain.
The ACA required health plans to spend at least 80% to 85% of premiums insurers take in on enrollees’ care, known as the medical loss ratio. But insurers figured out if they also become health care providers — by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers — they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care.
Hundreds of acquisitions later, UnitedHealth is now the fourth largest U.S. company — just behind Walmart, Amazon, and Apple. And traded companies care more about shareholders than patients.
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#uhc #unitedhealthcare #cigna #wallstreet #MakeGuillotinesGreatAgain #KillHedgeFunds
Don’t overlook Wall Street’s role in health insurance greed | STAT
As the former VP of corporate communications at Cigna, I used to protect the health insurance business. Today's public conversation is missing something.Wendell Potter (STAT)
Folks, this is Luigi Mangione’s manifesto that the mainstream media don’t want people to read, so please don’t distribute it, m’kay?
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#LuigiMangione #manifesto #LuigiMangioneManifesto #UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealthcareCEO #UnitedHealthGroup #capitalism #systemicViolence #censorship #corporateMedia
Luigi's Manifesto
Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOKen Klippenstein
@pluralistic has great thoughts about the recent murder of #UnitedHealthCare #CEO #BrianThompson and how they relate to a story he wrote a while ago:
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However, #Anthem's retreat from changing how anaesthesia is billed, was one a rare "Enemy of my enemy" moment.
In this piece:
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@Vox explains how "[the] policy would not have increased costs for their enrollees...it would have reduced payments for some of the most overpaid physicians in America."
A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield tried to impose claim limits on anesthesia. Following the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, a populist uproar forced Anthem to reverse that policy.Eric Levitz (Vox)
"the survivors also mourn the killing of their loved ones—whose deaths, while enacted by deliberate choice and with clear motive, are not deemed murders, because the decisions that caused their anguish and death were legal, and, more to the point, were extremely profitable"
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Peaceful Solutions
On respectable and profitable human-suffering engines, the murder of a CEO, propriety in a land where life has been cheapened, and some good news for those who seek peaceful solutions.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
So many people think that the guy who killed a health insurance CEO is a hero that politicians have to make public statements contesting the idea. 😆
We laugh, but honestly this is one of those powerful flashpoint moments that can change the political landscape if we insist on it doing so. With one move the conversation went from "healthcare denials by insurance companies are wrong" to "the people who run health insurance companies are mass murderers." A critical mass of *ordinary people* are saying this, not just movement organizers. This is a big deal.
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#Health #HealthInsurance #UnitedHealthcare #HumanRights
Gov. Josh Shapiro Says Killer Of UnitedHealthcare CEO 'Is No Hero'
“We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences," the Pennsylvania governor said after an arrest was made in his state.Lydia O'Connor (HuffPost)
#unitedhealthcare #luigimangione
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On UnitedHealthcare:
"People hate Unitedhealthcare, for good reason, because he personally decided – or approved – countless policies that killed people by cheating them until they died.
Nurses and doctors hate Thompson and United. United kills people, for money. During the most acute phase of the pandemic, the company charged the US government $11,000 for each $8 covid test"
~ @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/rad…
#Unitedhealthcare #healthcare
Worth reading from @pluralistic
“… If you die with a bullet in you, the chances are that the finger on the trigger was your own. The next most likely suspect is someone you know. After that, a cop. Getting shot by a stranger out of uniform is something of a rarity here …”
#Healthcare as suffering: “We sat in the hospital for 3 days b/c #UnitedHealthcare refused to approve the transfer via ambulance from the hospital where we live to another state. & at that point, I was ready to just get in my car & take her [1-year old baby with a giant brain tumor] there myself. But UHC told us if we left the hospital by our own will, & it wasn’t via ambulance, they were not going to cover her @ the next hospital we went to,” she said.
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Brian Thompson’s killing inspired rage – against the healthcare industry
Thousands of Americans go bankrupt, lose their homes or die every year due to medical insurer practicesChris McGreal (The Guardian)
#crime #murder #UnitedHealthcare #OSINT
'A high-profile violent crime typically sets social media abuzz with tips and theories from amateur internet sleuths, hunting for the alleged perpetrator.
But after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York City this week without a primary suspect being identified, a rare occurrence happened in the thriving true-crime world: silence online from highly followed armchair detectives.'
Extraordinary!
"top internet sleuths refuse to solve #UnitedHealthcare #CEO’s murder"
thatdaneshguy: ‘I don’t have to encourage violence. I don’t have to condone violence by any means. But I also don’t have to help’
Savannah Sparks, asked if she is on the case: ‘Absolutely the f**k not’
TizzyEnt: ‘I have yet to see anyone online posting “we gotta find this guy, we gotta get him off the street”'
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let's translate the sentiment to the positive: #universalhealthcare.
Why top internet sleuths refuse to solve UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has more than enough ingredients to set social media ablaze.Sam Corbishley (Metro)
The new UnitedHealthcare #UHC #CEO, #AndrewWitty, gave a zoom address to the company today that was leaked to independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.
Witty told employees "we will continue to guard against...unnecessary care" and to "tune out the critical noise".
There's absolutely no 'care' in #UnitedHealthcare.
And from his accent I suspect Witty grew up in a country that has #universal #healthcare.
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#insurance #InsuranceCEO #brianthompson #unitedhealthcareceo #unitedhealthcare #healthinsurance #denydefenddepose
Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
Before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, a lawsuit filed against the firm revealed just how bad its claims-denying was.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
Imagine, instead of one health insurance company CEO, someone had murdered over 1000 Doctors and Nurses in an area the size of Philadelphia?
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That's exactly what the US and Israel have done in Gaza.
#Gaza #Israel #Genocide #CEO #UnitedHealthcare
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Israel Has Killed Over 1,000 Doctors and Nurses in Gaza
"These people, they target everyone, but I swear, this will not stop us from continuing our humanitarian work," said a Gaza hospital director injured in an Israeli strike.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Cowards. Do right by your customers and you’ll have nothing to be afraid of because customers will be happy and healthy.
They’re hiding now because they know they’re shitty people that are taking advantage of their customers.
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#UHC #UnitedHealthCare #HealthCare #HealthInsurance
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Last November, the estates of two former UHC patients filed suit in Minnesota alleging that the insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and override claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors.
The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.
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#UHC #UnitedHealthCare #HealthCare #HealthInsurance
Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
Before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, a lawsuit filed against the firm revealed just how bad its claims-denying was.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
1. shell casings found at the scene where the #UnitedHealthcare #CEO was shot dead had the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” written on them
2. there is a book by Jay M Feinman, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, called "Delay, Deny, Defend: Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it":
holy shit
EDIT: apparently "Delay, Deny, Defend" is a well known phrase in the insurance industry
Cory (@pluralistic) has thoughts:
Our whole economy is now composed of companies with sociopath-shaped holes at the tops of their org chart. The reason these companies can only be run by sociopaths is the same reason that they have become infrastructure that is crumbling due to sociopathic neglect. The reckless disregard for the risk of combining companies is the source of the market power these companies accumulated, and the market power let them neglect their systems to the point of collapse.
(UHC's) execs are the kind of execs on a relentless quest to be too big to care, and so they don't care. Which is why they had to subsequently announce that they had suffered a breach that turned the complete medical histories of one third of Americans into immortal Darknet kompromat that is – even now – being combined with breach data from Equifax and force-fed to the slaves in Cambodia and Laos's pig-butchering factories:
He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror
He who kills one person with gun is an assassin; he who kills thousands with systemic rejecting claims to health care is a CEO
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UnitedHealthcare CEO shot, killed outside NYC hotel, AP source says
New York City’s police commissioner says the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a “brazen, targeted attack.” Jessica Tisch made the comments during a news conference Wednesday.JAKE OFFENHARTZ (AP News)
