UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassinated In NYC

[WolfEyes]

Originally a corporate charter was exceptional and required proof that it benefited society for another limited-liability organization to exist. Typically a proprietorship looking for a charter would offer public works in exchange for the boon.

Those were the days. That is how and why the family business, RCC, Inc. was incorporated. Can't hardly get any more public works than underground utilities (water, sewer, gas, sewage, drainage). The company was started by my grandfather and great uncle Either in the 30s or the 40s.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Just one more reason why I have no sympathy for "For Profit" health care CEO's.

https://pirg.org/edfund/articles/was-your-health-insurance-claim-denied-by-an-algorithm-thousands-are/

One doctor at Cigna, in just one month last year, denied 60 thousand claims. How is that possible? She used new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed by insurance companies to deny claims without even having to open the patient files.

What the ever-loving f*ck ...

1 in 7 people with medical debt have even been denied medical care because of their debt.

Perhaps most perversely, medical debt is blocking patients from care.
About 1 in 7 people with debt said they've been denied access to a hospital, doctor, or other provider because of unpaid bills, according to the poll. An even greater share ― about two-thirds ― have put off care they or a family member need because of cost. "It's barbaric," said Dr. Miriam Atkins, a Georgia oncologist who, like many physicians, said she's had patients give up treatment for fear of debt. Patient debt is piling up despite the landmark 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The law expanded insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans. Yet it also ushered in years of robust profits for the medical industry, which has steadily raised prices over the past decade.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/16/1104679219/medical-bills-debt-investigation

The picture is bleak.
In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they've gone into debt because of medical or dental bills, the KFF poll found.
A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt said they don't expect to ever pay it off.
"Debt is no longer just a bug in our system. It is one of the main products," said Dr. Rishi Manchanda, who has worked with low-income patients in California for more than a decade and served on the board of the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. "We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt."
The burden is forcing families to cut spending on food and other essentials. Millions are being driven from their homes or into bankruptcy, the poll found.

And our media and justice system wants me to feel sorry that someone shot this thieving, murderous CEO with United Health Care?

Not.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Happy New Year

Let's go!

tomthedancingbug.substack.com

 

[Ellie]

MM told us in 2007.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Good work UnitedHealthcare!

UnitedHealthcare slammed for denying cancer patient while in surgery

Dr Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Texas, said in a TikTok video this week that UnitedHealthcare allegedly forced her to stop reconstructive surgery on a breast cancer patient.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A surgeon has slammed UnitedHealthcare after the insurance giant allegedly disputed her patient's care while she was on the operating table.
Dr Elisabeth Potter, a plastic surgeon in Texas, claims performing breast reconstructive surgery on a breast cancer survivor when she received a phone call in the operating room.

Mid-surgery, Dr Potter was allegedly told to contact UnitedHealthcare 'right now' about the patient on the operating table, forcing her to stop the surgery and take the call.

The insurance representative allegedly said he needed information about the patient's diagnosis to determine 'if her inpatient stay should be justified.'
Dr Potter said in a TikTok video this week: 'I was like, "Do you understand that she's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?" and the gentleman said, "I don't actually. That's a different department that would know that information.

'I've never had this happen before,' she said. 'It's out of control. Insurance is out of control. I have no other words.'

I guess in their "defense" I should point out that the article is from "The Daily Snail" and they claim they have not verified DR. Potter's claim. Which, IMHO, is a just another way of diverting public anger over the issue until they can do damage control. It could be hyperbole, but I kind of doubt it based on the outrageous things they've done in the past.

We really need to end the medical insurance gravy train.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Even more health insurance fu*kery. Generic drugs are supposed to be affordable but these middlemen have found a way to make them not affordable. Yet another great reason to get rid of middlemen and "for profit" medical insurance.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/business/drug-price-mark-up-ftc-pbm/index.html

CNN —
Pharmacy benefit managers, which serve as the middlemen between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, reaped $7.3 billion in revenue from marking up the prices of dozens of specialty generic drugs between 2017 and 2022, the Federal Trade Commission said in an interim report issued Tuesday. The practice came at a time when spending on drugs by patients, employers, insurers and others rose significantly.

The nation’s three largest PBMs – CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx – inflated the prices of drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by hundreds or even thousands of percent, the agency found. The medications include those used to treat heart disease, cancer and HIV, among other conditions.

The PBMs, which are tasked with reducing the cost of drugs for their clients, reimbursed their affiliated pharmacies at a higher rate than unaffiliated pharmacies on nearly every one of the 51 specialty general drugs the agency reviewed.

 

[Myradyl Muse]

Even more health insurance fu*kery. Generic drugs are supposed to be affordable but these middlemen have found a way to make them not affordable. Yet another great reason to get rid of middlemen and "for profit" medical insurance.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/business/drug-price-mark-up-ftc-pbm/index.html

Wholesale rampant psychopathy and mass murder IMHO.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Even more health insurance fu*kery. Generic drugs are supposed to be affordable but these middlemen have found a way to make them not affordable. Yet another great reason to get rid of middlemen and "for profit" medical insurance.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/business/drug-price-mark-up-ftc-pbm/index.html

That is Mark Cuban's big goal, to bust those middlemen up.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Remember the complaint that the temporary spending bill was "1500 pages"? Turns out about 600 of thise pages dealt with PBM regulation. No small part of why it was killed.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Even more health insurance fu*kery. Generic drugs are supposed to be affordable but these middlemen have found a way to make them not affordable. Yet another great reason to get rid of middlemen and "for profit" medical insurance.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/business/drug-price-mark-up-ftc-pbm/index.html

“Conservatives” get super worked up when I call these structures “A bloated bureaucracy of middle men with their hands in the cash register.”

 

[Isabeau]

Ethel Cain Says We Should Kill More CEOs After Luigi Mangione's Arrest

Ethel Cain is doubling down on her comment that we should "kill more CEOs" after alleged UHC CEO shooter Luigi Mangione's arrest.

www.vice.com

 

[WeFlossDaily]

OMG this is funny: #KillMoreCEOs

Sorry. I hate people who have more money then me.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Ethel Cain Says We Should Kill More CEOs After Luigi Mangione's Arrest

Ethel Cain is doubling down on her comment that we should "kill more CEOs" after alleged UHC CEO shooter Luigi Mangione's arrest.

www.vice.com

I do not think people like her are helping anyone or anything with such reckless calls for violence. Just being in a leadership position isn't a crime in itself. I get why people are so mad at health insurers (United in particular) but I don't think it's a good policy to just off random leaders.

Sorry. I hate people who have more money then me.

Don't strawman. I don't think many people hate CEO's just for being wealthy, though I'm sure that's how they'd like to characterize it. There is a long list of CEO's who've gotten people killed with horrible policies and suffered no consequences. Some powerful people have seriously abused that power. I'm really uncomfortable with direct violence; but I think it's a good thing if very powerful people are at least a bit afraid of regular folk fighting back.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm really uncomfortable with direct violence; but I think it's a good thing if very powerful people are at least a bit afraid of regular folk fighting back.

Capital fears two main things. Work stoppage and violence. Make striking illegal, impractical, or useless, plan V steps up. This history revolt teaches what happens when a large enough mass of people have little to nothing to lose.

 

[Free]

OMG this is funny: #KillMoreCEOs

Sorry. I hate people who have more money then me.

Remind me never to compare our bank statements.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Reason #5232 why I am not sorry this asshole was shot.

The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent.

By doing so, they collectively added $7.3 billion in revenue, the report states.

Figures released with the report show that in 2022, the final year of the study, two cancer drugs had the highest markup.

Gleevec, the generic form of the leukemia drug Imatinib, was collectively marked up by the three providers by 5232 percent in 2022. For patients using Medicare, the markup was 4154 percent.

For Zytiga, the generic form of the Abiraterone prostate cancer drug, that markup was 2299 percent commercially and 1533 percent for those on Medicare.

UnitedHealth charged cancer patients 5000%, bombshell FTC report claims

Wholesalers made huge profits on two specialist cancer drugs, the FTC said

www.newsweek.com

My husband has leukemia, thankfully, we were able to get Gleevec without losing the house because we have a supplemental policy besides medicare, but who knows what will happen in the future? What about the people who didn't have a supplemental policy? I guess they bought Brian Thompson or some other Insurance CEO another fancy super yacht? The reality is, we all paid for Brian Thompson's fancy house and yacht.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Capital fears two main things. Work stoppage and violence. Make striking illegal, impractical, or useless, plan V steps up. This history revolt teaches what happens when a large enough mass of people have little to nothing to lose.

Agreed. I'd say they also fear a drop in sales but since we are seeing more defacto monopolies recently, that maybe is less of a problem.

 

[Noodles]

OMG this is funny: #KillMoreCEOs

Sorry. I hate people who have more money then me.

I don't care about people with more money, I care about people who cause irreporable harm to others in a mass, factory like way.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Capital fears two main things. Work stoppage and violence. Make striking illegal, impractical, or useless, plan V steps up. This history revolt teaches what happens when a large enough mass of people have little to nothing to lose.

At this point, things are so bad, we're in "Box #3". The voting box didn't work, the jury box only works for some and not so much anymore now that the court is stacked anyway, so people are restoring to "the bullet box". After Musk, Bezos, Andreessen, Thiel and several others get done running the US, I don't think it will be even five years before they are lining these guys up in front of a guillotine. They can only control the press for so long. "Look something shiny" will eventually stop working. Or maybe I'm too optimistic?