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Posted on 07/13/2025 5:29:30 AM PDT by Cronos
Mary Strause, a filmmaker in Wisconsin, logged on to Amazon’s video-streaming service in late May so she could share a link to her latest project, a docuseries that harshly criticized the U.S. health care industry. She was surprised to see that her video had vanished.
Ms. Strause had no way of knowing it, but the video had been taken down after a law firm working for UnitedHealth Group, one of the country’s largest health care companies, sent a letter warning Amazon and another streaming service, Vimeo, that the video was defamatory.
It was the latest salvo in an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics. In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division, to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.
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"Negative publicity may adversely affect our stock price, damage our reputation and expose us to unexpected or unwarranted regulatory scrutiny,” UnitedHealth noted in its most recent annual report. The company’s shares have declined 40 percent over the past year.
Eric Hausman, a spokesman for UnitedHealth, defended the company’s efforts. “The truth matters, and there’s a big difference between ‘criticism’ and irresponsibly omitting facts and context,” he said in a statement. “When others get it wrong, we have an obligation to our customers, employees and other stakeholders to correct the record, including by making our case in court when necessary.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"I am 71 years old. Four years ago I had total knee replacement surgery. Last month I had the other knee done. United health care did not approve hospital stay or home health PT and only 7 sessions of outpatient PT.
I was informed that UHC now considers full knee replacement surgery as 'elective outpatient procedure'"
And United healthcare wonder why people dislike them
Total hips too. They are going to make this outpatient too.
Given the standard of care these days in many hospitals, you may have a better outcome from outpatient than in-hospital recovery.
I’m convinced the purpose of ObamaCare was to break the US Healthcare system, so people would demand Single Payer.
100%
I would have a very difficult decision to make if I were on Mangione’s jury.
You’re a sick person…period.
Watched FB Reel on medicine and learned that CoVID provided cover for murdering patients with Remdesivir. They killed the presenter's father and denied son's access at hospital because he knows how big Pharma works. They 'terminated' his father in the hospital. If I were on the jury I would ask for the death penalty for the physicians who ordered the death.
How many people were killed (albeit hands-off) or forced to live a painful crippled life in order to protect/enhance the bottom line and bonuses?
Back-shooting is a definite no-no and cowardly, but I can understand what was going on with him.
Shameful.
I find it deeply disturbing that the Leftist mindset has infiltrated so deeply into all aspects of American life that this kind of thing can be said in a public forum, and even on an ostensibly conservative one.
It is psychologically akin to the efforts to turn Donald Trump into Hitler. After all, what American can hesitate to dwell on what they would have done to Hitler in 1937 if they had a time machine that would have allowed them to see into 1944 and the events leading up to it? All it would have taken was one "brave" individual to have taken out Hitler in some way, and all that transpired could have been avoided.
And therefore, if Trump (or in this case, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson) can be viewed as morally indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler (or ANY Nazi, for that matter) it becomes a moral imperative, something that would make you a seriously flawed person if you DON'T consider and act on murdering that person.
Right?
It is a terrible funnel that the Left has steered people (successfully) into. This is not an accident. This is a deliberate effort by them to herd weak-minded, gullible, angry, susceptible, and otherwise flawed and vulnerable people into this mindset, that they have a moral mission to murder people for the common good, and that it is the right and just thing to do, regardless of any laws in place.
This is disturbing. I saw a lawn sign recently saying "Free Mangione". I nearly went off the road because I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
There it was, in broad daylight, on a numbered house on an existing street with a registered occupant who felt no shame, fear of reprisal (legal or otherwise) at the support of potential criminality or murder.
That is the fruit of the Leftist mindset to advance their ends that wholly justify whatever immoral or criminal means they can dupe people into putting into action on their behalf.
For anyone still under the delusion that single payer is great, I have three letters: NHS.
There’s a difference between saying or posting things that are defamatory, and things that are false and defamatory. It would appear that UHC is having some true but defamatory material taken down, which is at most a hair’s breadth from fascism.
I have been generally healthy most of my life. But a few years ago I needed a procedure done, and I asked the doctor's office how much it would be (I didn't have insurance). They would not give me a straight answer. They kept saying "Who is your insurance?". I asked for a straight answer for no insurance involved. THEY WOULD NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION. It was a dystopian nightmare. There is not much difference between socialist healthcare and our current system.
Keep digging the hole, you’re even more repulsive than I first thought.
You are 100% correct, except you do not understand how injured the system had become post-1986 after the Great Compromise (Dems borrow or print as much as they want, GOP gets tax cuts, Medicare payments to providers decrease staedily with increasing regulation).
The Affordable Care Act was meant to finish the job, and it pretty much has.
Any of us who have any sense of responsibility are just working on damage limitation, but it's basically over.
That’s because hospitals screw over for every penny they can get the poor person with no insurance.
Until you are in those shoes, you have no right to judge. If you have not felt pain (or see a loved one in pain) or suffer a lifelong affliction which could have been avoided then you have no right to criticize. The love of money is the root of all evil and even though UH should make a profit (nobody is denying the that), there should be some balance of what is acceptable and what is immoral greed.
The biggest problem is the coupling of insurance with employment, especially now as employment becomes less and less stable for many.
It also puts American workers at a disadvantage, since companies don’t have to worry about insuring people working from India.
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