Posted on 12/17/2024 10:11:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson warned his colleagues about the health insurance company’s public relations issues in early 2024 as he tried to repair its reputation, according to a report.
Thompson “understood that the public was frustrated with what they perceived the company’s actions to be,” according to one person who spoke to the Washington Post anonymously. “He was actively articulating a vision that helped better educate and help people better understand what the company is doing.”
The typical American can lack an understanding of insurance conglomerates’ roles in the health care system, and it only becomes more convoluted when you have to consider the differences among the nearly 1,000 existing health insurance companies.
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The real villain here is the US Federal Government for forcing the current situation upon us all i.e. Barack Obama and his evil cohorts, the RINOs.
“He was actively articulating a vision that helped better educate and help people better understand what the company is doing.”
He didn’t deserve to be murdered. But he saw the problem was that WE didn’t understand him using AI to deny 90% of claims, and then outsourcing to get other claims denied. The outside contractors were paid by the denial.
His denial rate was triple the best companies like Kaiser, and double the industry average.
As I say, didn’t deserve murder, but he was a POS and only saw it as a PR problem, not a true problem.
Yes. They muck up industry after industry and never take responsibility. If something goes bad they need more power and dollars.
I hear some assclowns are getting tats of loseruigi, the alleged shooter. Much dumbassery.
I posted an article about that.
Medical Insurance coverage and denial problems are not a marketing issue. Improve coverage and care about the health of your consumers and that would have been the best way to improve your companies image.
Make doctors educate their patients on proper and informative preventative care and pay for this education. Doctors are focused on care (when it is too late) not prevention. Make it worthwhile for them to do both.
Allow doctors to explain what Dietary and Herbal Supplements work with their treatment and conditions. As an example the purpose of adding a cheap vitamin called Rutin to your Chemotherapy, etc... There are many studies with dietary and herbal supplements that are effective with FDA approved treatments. I used Rutin and few other supplements responsibly to keep my cancer (along with chemo) and I don’t know if it helps, but I had a 10% chance to survive this year and as of now my tumors are completely under control.
Rutin is a natural flavonoid compound that may be effective when combined with chemotherapy drugs:
Reduces side effects: Rutin can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and drug resistance.
Improves tumor protection: Rutin can improve tumor protection and survival when combined with chemotherapy drugs.
Enhances efficacy: Rutin can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs. For example, rutin can increase the cytotoxicity of temozolomide in glioblastoma multiforme.
Targets cancer cells: Rutin can target cancer cells by activating apoptosis, arresting the cell cycle, and other mechanisms.
Low toxicity: Rutin is a natural product with low toxicity.
Anti-inflammatory: Rutin can reduce the expression of proinflammatory cytokines.
(i.e. Barack Obama and his evil cohorts, the RINOs)
Yep
If we had a functioning rule of law, murdering the CEO would not be seen as an acceptable proposition for redirecting the insurance companies.
But we have an increasingly shoddy pretense of law, so here we are. It is astonishing to see how many people on the Left and the Right are cheering about this assassination. That is a big trouble indicator right there. I guess too many people across the political spectrum have been screwed over by the health care system.
The assassination was effective too, at least in the short term. Anybody notice how quickly Anthem-Blue Cross Blue Shield reversed their policies on limiting payments for surgical anesthesia? What a coincidence! [NOT!]
But this will have unintended consequences in the long term, and they will not be good for anybody. Do we really want to see corporate assassination teams denying claims?
"Health insurance" is basically an extortion racket, supported by the government. The insurance companies got what they paid for when they rented all those politicians to create this system. They are not blameless victims of the government. They are cooperating predators.
We already have 100-year-old consumer protection and antitrust laws which could be used to correct this problem, but they are not enforced. They should be.
Laws are a better way to control corporations than assassinations.
The business end of the topic: Unitedhealth Group (UNH) stock price is down to $480/share today. The stock is down $131/share (-21.4%) since December 4. EPS $23.86 with 920 Million shares outstanding. The UNH 52-week high was $630.73 on November 11.
Damage Control..
There is a big problem here, right on the ground floor, as usual: Our kids are being brought up to not value life, be it this CEO’s, or an unborn child. Many would argue that the latter was the crossing of the Rubicon.
There is a basic monetary problem too: By getting into a buyer-seller system with 3rd and 4th parties involved, cost control has been lost, even though that is supposedly a great deal of the reason for having insurance companies and the gov’t involved. Plus, we have literally miraculous medicine / care, but it is too expensive for most to afford, and almost everyone expects someone else to pay for it. One could plug UHC’s entire profit for a given period, say, the last 10 years, into claims payments for that period, and it would barely improve the situation. Toss in anything above, oh, $200k of Thompson’s income from UHC, and that doesn’t even move the needle.
Considering that United Healthcare profits are around 6% of sales (at least in 2022 and 2023), the simple fact is that if they were to provide significantly ‘better’ coverage, they would have to charge more - and people would be complaining about that. Insurance companies don’t control the costs of the providers, they are middle-men.
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