Summary
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty criticized public outrage over the health insurance industry following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.
In a leaked video to staff, Witty dismissed criticism as “misinformation” and urged employees not to engage with media.
Thompson’s murder outside a Manhattan hotel has intensified scrutiny of the industry’s practices, with bullet casings found at the scene bearing phrases linked to insurance claim denial tactics.
The killing has sparked debate on UnitedHealthcare’s history of denying claims, while the shooter remains at large.
Witty faces unrelated DOJ insider trading allegations.
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.
I can’t wait to be next in line for Mr. Bones wild ride.
How many CEOs does UnitedHealth have?
He’s The CEO of the company that owns United Health Care. Notice he’s ceo of United Health Group.
It’s different groups, the guy who got a bunny was unitedhealthcare. This guy is UnitedHealth … 😅
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.
Well I guess it’s time to continue to use your 2nd amendment rights
Well, not mine, I don’t have 2nd amendment rights, nor does the whole US healthcare/insurance situation affect me personally. I am however hopeful, seeing that Americans are finally doing something to make their country better for real.
Used to be 1, then 0, now 1 again. Hopefully back to 0 again.
Its layered group of subcompanies.
I’m for one hoping they never catch The Adjuster.
ahaha that’s great
if you don’t like the reflection, don’t blame the mirror.
Oh I like this one.
Boo you whore.
Assassination?
Let’s not put this man on a fucking pedestal here.
Please let’s do. Change isn’t always bloodless.
I am referring to the CEO.
He’s not important.
This is a murder, not an assassination.
Thoughts and prayers. Probably not the kind Mr. Fuckwitty would prefer.
Next.
“not to engage with the media” video going viral eh?
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Yeah it does, but I’m not sure what that accomplishes. The last guy was shot leaving a hotel.
Is there a geo-guesser community here?
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I saw a non English one around before. Havne’t seen an English one tho and do 't remember what the non English one was called or what language it was in.
We need a hotel version of a geo-guesser.
There’s already TraffickCam, used to help fight sex trafficking, but could be dual purpose, idk how you get access.
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.
They’d want people to learn self-colonoscopies so they can save on the 50 and over crowd.
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.
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.
I think that it goes a lot deeper than that. In the 90s I worked on a joint base shared with Americans and made a lot of American friends. They were shocked and sarcastic about the benefits that we had (Australians) that they did not have. Things such as long service leave (12 weeks paid leave after 10 years service) and even our four weeks annual leave. The shocked but I can understand, but the sarcasm I don’t get? It was as if our refusal to expend ourselves to the grind diminished us as a culture ?
That was 35 years ago, and our conditions have degraded accordingly. But I remember the American sentiment of the times well.
I’ve heard that sarcasm all my life, it’s intertwined in our culture, that if you’re not working above and beyond then you’re lazy and deserve to be poor. That’s how I found myself in my 20s working 84 hour weeks as the norm, and while doing better than average, I’d no longer recommend the lifestyle.
It’s definitely true, and it’s by design.
Their only concern is their fealty to the bottom line. We are only the sheep to be shorn for it. Sheep aren’t supposed to fight back.
The only way anything is going to happen is if the sheep do precisely that. Become ungovernable.
