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"Industry"
Industries are things that produce a product, the insurance providers are just the middle men that jack up the price.
Dear asshole, we hate everything about your industry. Signed, fucking everyone except a few other rich assholes.
This topic is bringing the left and the right together. This affects all of us! Medicare for all is the way!
My Trump voting parents and sister agree. Democrats for some reason weren't even talking about it in the election season, almost like their silence had been purchased by big medicine. Maybe this needs to be a national grassroots movement that rolls straight over our elected idiots.
It's really crazy what capitalism and a few bucks can do to people.
Someone dox him and make his life hell. He's already old, he'll get so damn cranky quick.
Obviously "a few bucks" in this case means millions, of course.
It's not enough that these people steal from us and kill us, but they also insist we not criticize them while they do it.
They don't see as anything more than a resource, a resource that complains when it is harvested is an annoyance.
What do you think they will do when the military is fully automated? Become nice?
Boo you whore.
This is super tone deaf. If I were an executive, I'd be pretending I don't exist.
Ikr, people in this position are expected to be malicious, they're also generally expected to be the smart kind of sociopath.
This guy clearly has no idea of the situation he finds himself in
Is the situation “being next”?
Is the OTHER CEO of your company not an indication that you should probably stop your bitching?
Get the bankers out of my doctor's office, the only people who should have the authority to decide what care is necessary is the physician treating me and myself when signing informed consent forums.
The fact that this is an internal video means at least one of your employees don't think you've learned the lesson you need to learn from this mr witty.
bang
Fuck, I hit Bezos by mistake. Why are all you cunts bald!?
Vince Gilligan was trying to say something
Witty, clearly reading from a script and dressed casually, defended his industry against accusations it refuses people vital coverage saying “we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or unnecessary care.”
Doubling down on your lie ain't gonna help you.
Unnecessary care
The doctor thinks its necessary. Claims handler and insurance company suddenly become medical professionals and give a second opinion of “its not necessary”.
Why even bother with the doctor? Just ask the insurance company instead.
Whats funny too - whenever the alternative is brought up (socialised healthcare), at least the conservative side of america starts seething over it, falling over themselves defending private insurance companies
Why even bother with the doctor? Just ask the insurance company instead.
100% this. If they know what's best for us they should open a hospital.
Do the people making these refusals have medical degrees? Those people without medical degrees actually think they know better than a doctor?
"Necessary" is a really telling word there. Is it necessary that I have pain meds? No. It's possible to go through my life in pain. It would fucking suck, but those pain meds aren't strictly necessary. Just fuck anybody and any corporation who would want you to go through life in pain.
Same with teeth.
Sure, I can live without them but everything becomes harder and worse and there's an awful period where you could probably die from the infections as many people used to.
But those are luxury bones covered by other, separate insurance, as though it is not related to my health.
we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or unnecessary care.
If he is going to be that far up his own ass, I hope he is at least checking for polyps.
I attended many C level meetings in a publicly traded company, grateful to be out by being fired after throwing the CTO off a cliff for sexual harrassment. Yeah, those whistleblower protection documents that I had to sign were used to wipe asses.
I can guarantee you that right now many meeting are having had where people need to come up with ideas to make the company look better without doing anything that would make them less money. They'll come up with strategies where they promise to do better, probably implement a few rules that actually make it better for 6 months or so, then they'll change it to make it worse than it is today. Potential disasters are always seen as opportunities to make even more money.
Fuck these people.
I'm now a CTO myself at a private company and we do better. We pay honest wages, also for C level (as in, I don't have an insane salary or disturbing benefits), we try not to over hire, we try not to fire. I'm the first in, the last out every day. We focus NOT on lying to customers but on actually making good products, that is why people love working with us. There are companies that are working hard to do it right.
"There are very few people in the history of the US healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."
Lol you fucking shitting me? This guy's whole speech is a lie.
Not so much a lie as speaking from a very twisted point of view. From his perspective, making more money is the only kind of positive change. As the CEO who oversaw the highest denial rate in the industry, Thompson's leadership would of course be seen as positive by his fellow executives.
In a way it's true. In death, he's having a hand in changing the public perception of privatized healthcare in the US, and perhaps will help spark change altogether.
If a handful of people are celebrating this and the rest are condemning that behaviour then sure I might listen to this dude.
If more than 95% of the comments I’ve seen across all platforms and political leaning, then I’m afraid that society has spoken and they’ve had enough of these parasites.
Do think we will have change? No, not unless we get more people willing to do things like that hero in NYC did the other morning.
Guess he just put himself on top of the list himself 😅
Claiming people aren't in sync with reality is such irony.
For a non-American, his "industry" is one of the few deterrents to those considering moving to the United States (with guns and MAGA cultists)
I wish I had an in somewhere else in the developed world.
Add our sociopathic work culture to the list.
As someone who worked with a lot of Americans, I came to believe that some of the sociopathic work culture was due, in part at least, to the tying of medical coverage to work itself.
I saw so many peers at the stage of burnout, having to jump from one job to another without so much as a break, because their healthcare and their family’s healthcare depended on it.
It struck me that in many cases many Americans were, at least in some sense, enslaved.
If I stop working and I break my leg playing out in the snow - there’s no risk to my financial future and so I can, if needed, rest (either to recover from said injury or to recover from the mental anguish of burnout or other.)
Many of my peers did not have that luxury.
Who decides what is necessary? Ohhh... the beancounter AI full of errors, cool.
How many CEOs does UnitedHealth have?
UnitedHealth Group (this guy) vs United HealthCare (subsidiary, the guy who was killed)
Arguably the group as a whole is worse because it also includes Optum among others.
Used to be 1, then 0, now 1 again. Hopefully back to 0 again.
There he goes again, issuing yet more denials, and denying new claims and whatnot. Thats what got them here in the first place, christ. Have they learned nothing, this is very unwitty of "Mr. Witty"
Also, can we very much continue and expand with prefacing the pos' name with the pre-nomial "$millions" they are compensated to spout their bullshit? Reminds me of congressmen being required to wear decals of their sponsors like racecars or something
Never forget that when a business owner tells you that they put consumers first, nothing is stopping them from converting their business into either a cooperative or a nonprofit organization dedicated to the public benefit. Even if it’s the case that at some given moment, the business really is putting consumers first, there is no benefit to the consumer for the business to continue operating as a privately owned for-profit institution. The only benefit a for-profit institution provides that a cooperative or nonprofit cannot, is the power for leadership to prioritize their own interests above all other stakeholders whenever it suits them.
I can’t wait to be next in line for Mr. Bones wild ride.
That guy can smoke a turd in hell for all i care.