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Might have start going after shareholders if this crap keeps up eh?
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…
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
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.
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They’re not scared enough yet.
they know that the publicity is temporary and does not matter because a corporation is not a democracy
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.
“But free market and competition!!!”
🖕
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
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.
It is more profitable that the beatings continue.
The simplest explanation is they literally can’t change, they’ve built this level of callousness into their DNA. It’s useful confirmation that for-profit health insurance is beyond saving.
Of course they wouldn’t try to behave well. Remember that the bosses in this organization are all incredibly selfish. They are rich, they want to get richer, and f*** everybody else. Although the company itself might benefit from a positive PR campaign, none of these people individually would, so they’re not going to push for one.
It’s a strange kind of honesty about bad behavior. Everyone is so selfish that they can’t even pretend as an organization that they would like to do the right thing.
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?
Why? “Line must go up”
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.
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.
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!”
One less golden parachute. More for the rest.
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They could put out a story like this every minute of every day and never run out. Burn it all down indeed
And I’m here for it.
Dial L for Luigi
A medically unnecessary coma thank you very much 🤔
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.
Hemsley: He is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization’s governing body.
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I like how property is the first thing listed.
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.
PLAYER 2 START
Player 2 has been trapped by Bowser inside the Koopa Dungeons, it’s Player 1’s turn.
Ready, Player 1?
I bet their CEO is not the only one who bleeds.
they have infinite ceos
Funny. I’m pretty sure by that logic there are also infinite something else.
yea? what is that
Funny way to spell murders
Question -:why is there no website that lists and compiles these issues?
Is it shutdown by their legal?
Maybe someone could start a database distributed as torrent. So many people can host it and spin up as needed?
Be the change you want to see in the world
I’m a us citizen, but naturalized. Meaning they can accuse me of terrorism and deport me, whereas for Americans born here - they can’t really do that. Has to be someone born in us.
Whereas a born American can just be accused of terrorism and be thrown in jail for god knows how many years?
If you’re not willing to be the change then it doesn’t need changing.
Doesn’t matter if you were born here or not, you just need to look like you would fit white in with their idea of normal.
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!
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?
Dr. Levi better be careful, United may try to claim he’s violating HIPAA by publishing these details (even though it’s legal).
Not a violation unless he has identified the patient
HIPAA can be violated without giving a name, if certain details are disclosed; eg the only 6 year old in the state with rickettsiapox who was admitted on December 21.
But no, this tweet did not violate HIPAA.
Right that’s why was careful to say ”identified” and not “named”. If you give someone enough information to infer with certainty a patient’s identity without express permission from that patient, you’re cooked.
Well shoot, what can be done to fix this?
Whatever idea we come up with is worth a shot
I’m not sure, but I bet someone is losing their mind over this problem!
Let’s take aim at this problem
Your second word.
CEOs will be blown away by the answer.
Respect to the doctor for publicly shaming United Healthcare.
I bet the new United Healthcare CEO (or whomever is in currently in charge) is le pooping their pants right about now.
And cleaning it up with hundred dollar bills.
Fuck these rich assholes
It’s “whoever”.
who’m’st’ve’er
who’m’st’ve’er’nt
Hey hey let’s leave the Welsh out of it
M’who’m’st’ve’er’nt’lady?
