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> Look what united healthcare does to its “customers” to make more money.

Hold short. They already lost a CEO to an act of revenge at the end of '24... and still didn't think that maybe they should stop, reflect on themselves and cut down on the BS before the next CEO catches a bullet?

I'm not sure if it's audacity, ignorance or stupidity that's at play here.



No, they don't care. They have shareholders to please.

Why anyone thought that applying laws of shareholder capitalism to health insurance was a good idea is beyond me.


> Why anyone thought that applying laws of shareholder capitalism to health insurance was a good idea is beyond me.

The idea itself of using the one thing capitalism is actually good at - achieving the lowest possible cost in the short term - isn't that bad.

But while that may work out for consumer goods... it's not a good thing to have in healthcare, because here are actual human lives at stake.


Greed




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