The patient's doctor criticized the insurance company, saying that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    306·
    6 个月前

    You’d think UHC would strive to behave impeccably with all the publicity around them lately. But no: they’re so shameless and so greedy they even behave rotten when everybody is busy dissecting their every moves. Amazing…

      • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
        34·
        6 个月前

        If that were the case, they’d have off’d the CEO themselves. That’s multi-millions that could go back to other higher-ups. Then we have a Highlander situation.

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          49·
          6 个月前

          The CEO serves a very important role in that they get all the fallout for what the board probably wants, and then if there’s enough bad publicity, they can fire the CEO and pretend that the CEO acted entirely out of their own volition.

          I mean that’s not to say they’re not greedy bloodsuckers, but they’re greedy bloodsuckers that the board needs. Because the board are even bigger greedy bloodsuckers and want to stay out of the news.

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            6 个月前

            If course, the board can also play innocent in any bad decisions, because they can just say “It’s what the shareholders want!” or “It’s what the consultants told us!”

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      6 个月前

      Because doing otherwise wouldn’t maximize profits. There’s no actual competition in the market for consumers to choose. Nearly all Americans get insurance through their work, and have absolutely no say in what companies those options are from, and those options might only change at the end of the year if the company changes their insurance partner (which I’m sure takes months to negotiate). UHC has no reason to change unless they are forced to. Customer Satisfaction in the industry is abysmal because there’s no incentive for the companies to actually be good.

    • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
      35·
      6 个月前

      They had their underwriters run the numbers and they determined it’s more profitable to continue business as usual and just invest in private security for executives.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      221·
      6 个月前

      In Corey Doctorow’s short story (Radicalized, in the collection Radicalized) the health fund attackers typically used explosives against the entire board and their support staff

      I wonder if that would be more effective

    • normalexit@lemmy.world
      20·
      6 个月前

      I don’t think you can pivot a 465 billion dollar company. Especially one where being unethical is a profit making feature.

      They won’t fix themselves, hell why even reign it in if the system rewards bad behavior?

    • nutsack@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 个月前

      they know that the publicity is temporary and does not matter because a corporation is not a democracy

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      91·
      6 个月前

      CEO’s come and go and one just went

      The ingredients you got bake the cake you get

      So, if you get sick, cross your fingers for luck

      ‘Cause old Richard T. Burke ain’t givin’ a fuck

      • Jesse Wells, United Health
    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 个月前

      What incentivize do they have? The vast majority of their customers have no choice but to be their customers. They just need to keep the companies that companies contract with to set up benefits happy. That’s a very small pool and most aren’t customers of theirs. And especially with the anti-regulation party coming into power, there’s no reason to fear government intervention. But even before that, it wasnt really a threat.

      • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
        5·
        6 个月前

        My employer had to hire a lawyer to get their insurance company to cover us and stop denying claims. It’s beyond fucked up out there.

  • Sabata@ani.social
    81·
    6 个月前

    Ai: “It is safe and profitable to deny this claim as she is unlikely to seek vengeance.”

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
      53·
      6 个月前

      Brian Thompson didn’t learn shit he’s dead. And I doubt that Stephen J. Hemsley, the Executive Chairman of UnitedHealth Group and Brian Thompson’s co-defendent in an insider trading lawsuit, likely didn’t learn squat either but is currently still alive.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    701·
    6 个月前

    They could put out a story like this every minute of every day and never run out. Burn it all down indeed

  • NastyNative@mander.xyzBanned from communityEnglish
    581·
    6 个月前

    Proof that Luigi was right! 2025 is the year we the people start denying their existence. Medicare for all and the doctors that get paid the most do so by having healthy patients. No more pill popping to keep making these insurers rich!

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      72·
      6 个月前

      Given who is about to be sworn into office, I’m not sure too much progress will happen, but people will certainly get an idea of how much they’re getting fucked.

      Maybe after the next election?

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeOP
      36·
      6 个月前

      Stephen Helmsley:

      He was managing partner and chief financial officer at Arthur Andersen.

      Super shocking that he was doing insider trading at UHC. They hired a known crook and paid him tens of millions a year.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        231·
        6 个月前

        Tell me you didn’t go to law school without telling me you didn’t go to law school.

        Edit - As American prisons are a form of institutional violence, your warning that posting Wikipedia links “could be in violation of Federal law” is in itself a call for violence against the original poster. You can self report to the gulags.