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UnitedHealthcare Value Drops $41.6 Billion in Week After CEO Brian Thompson’s Slaying.
(finance.yahoo.com)
Not nearly enough.
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The fucking disgusting bit is that's less than 8%. So it's still only 3% lower than it was at the beginning of the year
How many people died for that line?
Yes but have you considered that line goes down? Line must never go down so further cuts must be made to ensure line goes up next quarter.
Why are healthcare denials sent to and shouldered by patients? If you go to an in network facility, that place is vetted by insurer. So why isn't a 'denial' a matter between the provider and the insurer and transparent to the patient?
Why are there networks, health insurance companies, co-payments, payment disputes/ negotiations of prices, and people suffering from not receiving medical care?
Oh yeah, because this way it costs us significantly more and we can think we are doing better than others in life by acquiring a job where we have linked medical coverage too.
The fact that there are "classes" of healthcare is just repulsive.
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Boy the new and old media are having a thesaurus day with the word "killed".
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How could Brian do this to the shareholders?
Health care insurance should be handled by governments, or alternatively by law by non profit foundations
Some would argue that should be the case for all companies.
Imagine how much better for profit companies would function if they didn't have investors skimming off their profits.
For profit companies should be illegal.
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It should be lower. This incident really put a spotlight on their claims denial rate being the highest in the industry, twice as high as industry average. A lot of customers will probably be leaving but that hit won't happen until later when the next billing cycle comes.
Or the idiotic "open enrollment" period. Can't believe they only let us change health insurance once a year.
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their subscriber numbers will dwindle down to shit. they are as good as having no insurance at all
A lot of customers will probably be leaving
How many of their customers actually chose them? Most people get insurance through their job
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Luigi, I can forgive a lot, but shareholder value... How could you, man?
How am I supposed to tell my kids about his when they are back from the character building camp I sent them to where they were hunting lesser human beings for sport in an eastern European country I won't name? This is really going to crush their big, delicate hearts...
Pff, peasant, sending your children off to some far ofd shithole. Shell out some real money and I'm pretty sure you can find some human hunting grounds within the U S of A. Turn it into family bonding time like a good father.
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Too bad they will make damn sure this doesn't hurt the shareholders but the people themselves.
Still worth 490 Billion.
That's 1,000$ for every American.
"value", it should be a service that is focused on servicing and have no value at all.
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It worked! This is a valid tactic.
If Luigi has shorted the company with some leverage, he might now be incredibly wealthy
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are you saying in the USA they organize their health care around the stock market?
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Unfortunately, this is only a temporary oscillation and they will soon recover and everyone will forget what happened. The damage must be done to the political structure that allows these companies to exist as they are
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Fucking A for some fucking A, this will probably sting them more than the death of their last CEO.
The aliens in Independence Day said it the best of UHC and their ilk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rw5MosKRm4
Edit: Companies, not people, to be clear.
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....naaaaaaah
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Think of the shareholders you monsters! Only they matter! Not the patients. Duh; Businesses pay huge premiums to insure their employees, can’t have that money being used for the good of the people it’s meant to help.
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Good, let it crash and burn and let it not be the only one
Free healthcare for all US citizens!
That is the only thing that gets their attention.
Elder CEO mentoring prodigy, "that's why you need state of the art security, if one of the plebs goes and murders you the shareholders will suffer in their quest for never ending profits"
....until it goes right back up in [insert timeframe]
Will we never learn?? Make it stick!! Take more action!! Please let this be the spark
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