• @aceshigh
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    41 hour ago

    lol someone doesn’t want to be next… so what changes is he going to be making?

  • @MothmanDelorian
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    31 hour ago

    The best way to achieve this is to entirely dismantle the US health insurance industry.

  • @dustyb0tt0mz
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    31 hour ago

    you’re going to get lip service and faux sympathy, but at least you got them talking about it. this is a clear example of how the only thing the american people have left to create change is violence.

  • @Rhoeri
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    11 hour ago

    Hopefully this doesn’t mean it just needs to be dressed up more to appear as if it’s functional.

  • @Freefall
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    276 hours ago

    I hear Mario bros music…

  • @bokherif
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    116 hours ago

    Fuck these guys. I feel sick just seeing their faces.

  • @cultsuperstar
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    157 hours ago

    “We can’t lower costs. We won’t make as much money.”

  • @iAvicenna
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    459 hours ago

    wow he really said this?

    “Participants in the system,” he said, derive benefit from high health care costs. While lower prices and improved services can be good for consumers and patients, Witty said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on charging more for care.”

    Yes this basic human right could be cheap or even free, but then how would shareholders make more money exploiting it?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 hour ago

      His entire business model is based on reducing the efficiency of health care spending and he is directly incentivized to maximize profits by minimizing health care spending efficiency.

      • @MothmanDelorian
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        31 hour ago

        US health insurers literally offer zero social benefit. They should not exist as the entire industry in harmful rent seeking.

    • @jj4211
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      Sounds like he’s trying to cast everyone else but the insurance companies as the bad organizations, and that they will be taking measures to make that more clear to the people.

      In short “don’t shoot us, shoot these other guys if you have to shoot someone!”

    • Flying Squid
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      He’s also just straight up lying. I’m a participant in the system with chronic health issues. I would have benefited more from never going to see a doctor and kept my family out of debt than what I ended up doing.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 hours ago

      Bro literally said,that they don’t care about anything but profits and are willing to kill people for this.

  • @[email protected]
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    While lower prices and improved services can be good for consumers and patients, Witty said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on charging more for care.”

    are they a health insurance or a revenue stream insurance?

    • Larry13
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      That has to be one of the most tone deaf and evil (the banal greedy kind) of things I’ve ever heard.

      While law enforcement can be good for citizens and society, Capone said, they can “threaten revenue streams for organizations that depend on doing crime.”

      Same vibe right?

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      are they a health insurance or a revenue stream insurance?

      Come now, I think we already have that answer.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 hours ago

        In other words, productivity gains increase poverty. Congratulations on owning your most powerful smart phone yet, but now a bean and rice burrito from a fast food place is over 6 USD.

    • @Manifish_Destiny
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      You have your answer under capitalism. Unfortunately good healthcare and late capitalism seem to not be too compatible.

  • @[email protected]
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    “We only do reprehensible things because we’re allowed to. We would totally be ethical if forced to!”

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        my edit maybe 6hrs old

        share, repurpose, whateves…watermarks are for the weak. Shitpost, it don’t pay much, nor should it, but, commas, are, cool,

        • @[email protected]
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          32 hours ago

          did you know commas are baby parentheses that were picked before they were full grown?

          also, threatening healthcare CEOs lives might be the only practical way back to humane healthcare and that should scare the shit out of everybody that yes in fact things are that bad

  • @[email protected]
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    They say this because…

    … anyone?

    That’s right, Timmy, it’s because they want to execute a large merger once Trump is in power.

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      “We’ll be able to improve efficiency, reduce duplicative effort and increase profits.”

      “And lower rates?”

      “What?”

  • @Arbiter
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    16520 hours ago

    “Please don’t kill me. :(“ Begs UnitedHealth CEO

    • @[email protected]
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      9120 hours ago

      Not really, he’s doubling down:

      “Many of you knew Brian … he devoted his time to help make the health system work better for all of the people we’re privileged to serve.”

      • @[email protected]
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        Many of you knew Brian … he devoted his time to help make the health system work better for all of the privileged we serve.”

        Fixed it.

      • @jj4211
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        11 hour ago

        Nah, he’s trying to promote a narrative of “there are bad guys in the system, but not us, look at those drug company CEOs over there please… they are the ones really screwing you…”

        • @Iceman
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          119 hours ago

          So it’s a true statement in the sense that they made the healthcare system better at extracting profit from their costumers to serve the shareholders. Death and suffering is just a method. Andrew Witty, what a soulless shit.

      • @Arbiter
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        Just trying to reframe the narrative.

        • @tburkhol
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          3419 hours ago

          “The insurance companies are the good guys, fighting against outrageous hospital charges, doctors fraudulently demanding excessive tests and care, and odious government regulations.”

      • @orclev
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        for all of the people we’re privileged to serve

        This is Corporate America slight of hand, they think the people they serve are the shareholders, not their customers. Their customers are an operating cost to them and they’ll do what they can to keep that cost down so they can maximize their profits.