Posted on 12/13/2024 3:48:06 AM PST by Cronos
Mr. Witty is the chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare.
We greatly appreciate the enormous outpouring of support for Brian, who ran our health insurance business, UnitedHealthcare, as well as for our wider company, which I lead. Yet we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats. No employees — be they the people who answer customer calls or nurses who visit patients in their homes — should have to fear for their and their loved ones’ safety.
The people of UnitedHealth Group are nurses, doctors, patient and client advocates, technologists and more. They all come to work each day to provide critical health services for millions of Americans in need.
We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people’s frustrations with it. No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a patchwork built over decades. Our mission is to help make it work better. We are willing to partner with anyone, as we always have — health care providers, employers, patients, pharmaceutical companies, governments and others — to find ways to deliver high-quality care and lower costs.
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While the health system is not perfect, every corner of it is filled with people who try to do their best for those they serve.
Brian was one of those people...
When a colleague proposed a new idea to Brian, he would always ask, “Would you want this for your own family?” If not, end of discussion.
...The ideas he advocated were aimed at making health care more affordable, more transparent, more intuitive, more compassionate — and more human.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The confusion of the US healthcare system is deliberate. Big Med and Big Insurance can afford lawyers to navigate the labyrinth, while the average person is at a disadvantage. It often results in the consumer paying more than he should.
IIRC, Andrew Witty came over from GlaxoSmithKline in England.
Presumably, our health care is better than NHS...
It was a patchwork buil on the solid foundation of corruption, idiot regulation,
And communism.
Illegals, Obamacare = outrageous
It’s because of GOVERNMENT REGS!! ALL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE IS BASED ON WHAT MEDICARE AND MEDICADE PAY FOR!
Odd the way that the left’s way to deal with anything is always violence.
I suppose they will want to put up statues of THIS guy too?
He spews out this crap as he’s being measured by the Ballistic Tailor for his new wardrobe...
We do this foremost by changing the GOPe to the GOP. Obamacare gave us this, IOW government. Obama’s signature socialist legislation. Recall the massive amounts of rats that were tossed out from dog catcher on up after this. The GOPe took control along with Trump and preceded to do NOTHING.
And here we are many years later, a huge gummit weath and power re-distribution - and many states have only one choice. This is not a free market, if the RINOs again fail to deliver it’s over in two years as the public wants results, not names. Pity it all comes down to one man in 700 days, President Trump. This is the last time in our lifetime republicans win on promises.
IT ALL STARTED WITH OBAMACARE.
What Makes People Sick apart from Courts, Corporations, and Governments?...
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-makes-people-sick-apart-from
AFREE. In intractable untreated pain, you reach two points, suicide or you kills those who deny you care.
Obamacare we warned you before it was passed.
Cartel price fixing is illegal but no one does anything about it
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title15/chapter1&edition=prelim
That will be a market too.
Pay your people handsomely but make hospitals and hospital corporations NOT FOR PROFIT in letter and spirit of the law. Prices will fall.
Work with insurers to Re-insure catastrophic cases.
Obamacare mandated this mess on Purpose to
tick off everyone and make it easier to ram there GOVT Deathcare .
With Govt Deathcare there are no denials
since you cant see a DR if you too old or too sick or too costly or too complicated.
You get drugs and go off and die at home .
Its cheaper that way .
I see a rich sicko spoiled brat born with a bad back that he made worse by surfing is the new hero .
What a sick society we have become .
The psycho did not even have united healthcare and he was rich enough
to get any type of care he demanded .
We treat old people with cancer .
In England ,you get meds and your told to go home.
You cost too much and not considered useful to society .
All true .
At least in England they have private hospitals and clinics to go to .
You pay twice for you NHS taxes and then you fund you life saving care too .
Do you like that option ?
In Canada , has no private option .
If you go for private care , Canada cuts you off for ever or be a good sheep and go home and die cheaply .
The joys of Free Healthcare .
That would be ObamaCare is BROKEN! Is working as designed by Commies!
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Obamacare was designed to kill off senior citizens - and wreck the American healthcare system
Fauci’s COVID-19(84) was designed to (mostly) kill off senior citizens
Globalist Depopulation and Social Security / Medicare implications
$379 b in revenue yearly should help you do a lot of thinking
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