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I am curious if Tuffin would support a single-payer system to make the US medical system less complex. Perhaps the savings from all that wasteful insurance company spend could be used to help bring down the cost of providing medicine.
That $358 Billion profit they've registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those "efficiency" savings are being passed to their customers.
I think that's the revenue number and profit was around $20 billion. Which is still an incomprehensible amount of money that could have been spent on actual healthcare instead of extracted from their victims.
20 thousand million dollars is an incomprehensible number. Let alone to profit for healthcare.
A functional government would have regulated the entire industry into something reasonable and sustainable decades ago.
That doesn't count executive compensation.
Not to mention the profit is on top of the costs of negotiating and processing the complex shit system that they lobbied for.
"Mission driven people" is like "family-owned company": you can apply that to nearly anything.
The mission being to screw over people enough to increase profits more next quarter.
Feel free to ask him:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-tuffin-0176a331_the-people-in-our-industry-are-mission-driven-activity-7270441124308082688-XN_7
Just wow, well i hope brians parents are absolutely ashamed of themselves for raising a terrible human being as a son.
Brian deserved everything he got and much more. If there actually is a hell i hope hes there for eternity.
I often wonder how genuine such polemics are.
From my professional experience working with US companies, such attitudes are more of a cover. "It's technically not illegal, so my actions are just and fair irrespective of the real world impact." There is a fair share of "true believer" types (not at the senior level though), but they are a lot rarer than the amount of public facing polemical copytext would suggest.
This is not a critique per se, more of an observation. I enjoy working with Americans, they are pretty laid back and can be relatively generous with comp if you know what you are doing (and you know how to sell yourself).
I don't go to that degenerate hellsite. It makes me feel extremely misanthropic and despondent.
linkedin is tumblr now?
Thanks. Just reported his post as ‘fraud or scam’ lol. I know nothing will happen but it made me laugh.
Snap I didn’t see that one!
Sweet lord. The Insurance CEOs and their Toadies are scared lol.
Good.
Looks like the post is gone now…
Insurance companies don't pay nearly as much as what a normal person would pay out of pocket.
When I become dictator of the united states I will retroactively make lying on this scale illegal and punishable by an eternal sentence in The Pit