‘Delay, Deny, Defend’: United Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying Claims
https:// www.nytimes.com /2024/12/05/nyregion/delay-deny-defend-united-health-care-insurance-claims.html ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’: United Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying Claims
The insurance industry has pushed back against the outrage. “The people in our industry are mission-driven professionals working to make coverage and care as affordable as possible and to help people navigate the complex medical system,” said Michael Tuffin, the president of AHIP, a major trade group, on LinkedIn.
I am curious if Tuffin would support a single-payer system to make the US medical system less complex. Perhaps the savings from all that wasteful insurance company spend could be used to help bring down the cost of providing medicine.
154“The people in our industry are mission-driven professionals working to make coverage and care as affordable as possible"
That $358 Billion profit they've registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those "efficiency" savings are being passed to their customers.
80Not to mention the profit is on top of the costs of negotiating and processing the complex shit system that they lobbied for.
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"Mission driven people" is like "family-owned company": you can apply that to nearly anything.
The mission being to screw over people enough to increase profits more next quarter.
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Mike--the online vitriol is horrific. Every single person I know who has worked in this industry has done so because they see it as a way to help people at their most vulnerable moments. At my company, we receive thousands of member calls each month. Every single response to every single one of those calls from someone in need of help is an act of service. How awful for Brian's friends, family, and colleagues to have to read such ignorant hate.
Just wow, well i hope brians parents are absolutely ashamed of themselves for raising a terrible human being as a son.
Brian deserved everything he got and much more. If there actually is a hell i hope hes there for eternity.
26Sweet lord. The Insurance CEOs and their Toadies are scared lol.
Good.
3Looks like the post is gone now…
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Insurance companies don't pay nearly as much as what a normal person would pay out of pocket.
6When I become dictator of the united states I will retroactively make lying on this scale illegal and punishable by an eternal sentence in The Pit
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You reap what you sow.
53You have sewn the wind...now you shall reap...the Barry
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Wait a second, is he asking the public to delay the investigation and deny when asked and defend him in case of arrest?
29If you’re on the jury you can deny the evidence right in front of you. UnitedHealth does it every day.
30Oh their LAWYERS are saying it was first degree murder?
Well I've got someone here with an associates degree who denies that claim.
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Don't forget about the one that said "depose". That's the most important one.
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I can imagine a headline "Republicans swiftly call for gun control measures after a senseless shooting of UnitedHealthCare CEO."
22Unfortunately, unless we get close to threatening the American Rasputin, aka Elongated Muskrat, or Jeff Bezos, nothing will change.
It isn't until the robber barons fear for their lives that America actually does anything.
To be clear: the social contract has been broken by American billionaires, and any other billionaires, and I will be taking potshots with my crossbow at any that dare to stray within a 1.5 mile radius of where I can take a clean shot. Self defence is legal. The courts and the legislature refuses to prosecute the rich, so Robin Hood tactics are necessary.
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Yo an article about the company's practices? Neat
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