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UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” (open.substack.com)

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

I think this is more an example of perverse incentives…

Hospitals are overwhelmed, they might reach out to the insurance companies to try and help reduce the incoming patients…

UHC is evil, but I could see how this program perhaps started with good intentions, but became perverse.