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UnitedHealth Group C.E.O. (Andrew Witty): The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It.
New York Times ^ | Dec 13, 2024 | Andrew Witty

Posted on 12/13/2024 3:48:06 AM PST by Cronos

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1 posted on 12/13/2024 3:48:06 AM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos

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.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 3:50:04 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Cronos

IIRC, Andrew Witty came over from GlaxoSmithKline in England.

Presumably, our health care is better than NHS...


3 posted on 12/13/2024 3:51:39 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Cronos

It was a patchwork buil on the solid foundation of corruption, idiot regulation,
And communism.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 3:52:10 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Cronos

Illegals, Obamacare = outrageous


5 posted on 12/13/2024 3:53:23 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: Cronos

It’s because of GOVERNMENT REGS!! ALL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE IS BASED ON WHAT MEDICARE AND MEDICADE PAY FOR!


6 posted on 12/13/2024 3:55:03 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Cronos

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?


7 posted on 12/13/2024 3:56:25 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Cronos; Chode; Carriage Hill; All

He spews out this crap as he’s being measured by the Ballistic Tailor for his new wardrobe...


8 posted on 12/13/2024 4:07:24 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Cronos

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.


9 posted on 12/13/2024 4:08:42 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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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


10 posted on 12/13/2024 4:11:38 AM PST by GailA (Welcome back Jesus and President Trump. We missed you.)
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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.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 4:14:34 AM PST by GailA (Welcome back Jesus and President Trump. We missed you.)
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To: Jonty30

Cartel price fixing is illegal but no one does anything about it
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title15/chapter1&edition=prelim


12 posted on 12/13/2024 4:21:28 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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Okay, Ange: Publish "facility fees" that make up a HUGE part of the hidden shenanigans in health care.

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.

13 posted on 12/13/2024 4:26:00 AM PST by caddie
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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 .


14 posted on 12/13/2024 4:31:25 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: grey_whiskers
It is .

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 .

15 posted on 12/13/2024 4:38:38 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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health system does not work as well as it should

That would be ObamaCare is BROKEN! Is working as designed by Commies!

16 posted on 12/13/2024 4:38:58 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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The health care system is broken, without question, and it got much much worse after Obamacare. The fix requires minimizing payments to non-caregivers and stopping the ‘I want my cut’ that has permeated medicine for years now. Corporate innovation (e.g. valid new devices, non ‘me-too’ medications, other therapeutics) need to be rewarded such that we maintain incentive in the system, but we absolutely need to cut administrative costs by at least 50%. At least. Administrative costs in the US represent almost 4x the percentage of health care costs as are represented by physicians payments (which are generally 8-10% of total health care costs). This is ludicrous. Nuns did a better job running hospitals than the VAST majority of overpaid hospital administrators (including hospital system CEOs) do now.
17 posted on 12/13/2024 4:44:31 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: mabarker1

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18 posted on 12/13/2024 4:46:47 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: GailA

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


19 posted on 12/13/2024 4:55:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Cronos

$379 b in revenue yearly should help you do a lot of thinking


20 posted on 12/13/2024 5:26:34 AM PST by sopo
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