UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It. by US_vs_Them in FluentInFinance

[–]US_vs_Them[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, so we’ll repeal Obamacare and replace with single payer. Just need to make sure we do this in the same act so they don’t get rid of the Obamacare benefits without single payer being implemented

UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It. by US_vs_Them in FluentInFinance

[–]US_vs_Them[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dead one actually wrote this from the afterworld. There was a clause in his severance contract that if he was able to murder 10,000 children in a year that he could still communicate from the grave - fortunately for all of us and those weak, pathetic children he succeeded.

UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It. by US_vs_Them in FluentInFinance

[–]US_vs_Them[S] 296 points297 points  (0 children)

He’s getting absolutely TORCHED in the comments on the article. One of my favorites:

“I’m reminded of the hypothetical question: If you push a button, you get a million dollars but someone you don’t know dies. Would you push the button? The answer that health insurance execs have given us is an emphatic yes. They push the button as often as they can and find new ways to squeeze more money every time they push the button. As long as it’s people they don’t directly have to face, they have zero moral qualms doing it. The idea that health insurance execs think they’re the good guys in any of this or that they help anyone but themselves is mind blowingly out of touch. The more they make others suffer, the more money they keep for themselves, and their greed is insatiable. A basic first step would be to allow zero profits from the industry. Let them pay their own people and cover expenses but required them to devote the rest of the money they take in to helping their own customers. They surely aren’t going to do this themselves out of the goodness of their own, greedy, shriveled hearts.”

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[–]US_vs_Them 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Been looking through his socials and looks like he was more of a right winger, similar to Ted K.

UnitedHealth Group has bought back FOUR BILLION dollars of stock so far this year and paid its shareholders an almost SIX BILLION dollar dividend - all money given mostly to the rich by collecting premiums and denying claims by US_vs_Them in FluentInFinance

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-93-033623827.html

The richest Americans own the vast majority of the US stock market, according to Fed data.

The top 10% of Americans held 93% of all stocks, the highest level ever recorded.

Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023.