That's murder in my book. The board of United health care can be found here (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UNH/profile/) all of them set the policies of United so there all guilty of murder over profits. Health insurance companies should be none profit.
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Can we set up a fundraiser to pay off someone to let the CEO die?
Release the ~~Kraken~~ Luigi
Soooo.... It's obviously worse when it involves people's lives, but:
Every corporation does this. Maximize profit right to the border of legality. Sometimes landing on the wrong side of it, but that's "just the cost of doing business".
That's what you get with unregulated capitalism.
Sounds like another CEO could use a high-velocity pat on the back.
#FreeLuigi
Murder? Ulterior motives?
If someone kills for money, they risk their lives in some of the more retarded areas of the US.
They need radical punishments for companies that kill for profit. Both the nursing homes and UnitedHealthcare (and others who probably do the same but have not been caught yet).
It's time these asshokes became scared for their lives again.
News like this reminds me that Luigi did nothing wrong.
Luigi didn't do anything because he's innocent

Are these the death panels we were promised?
Death panels are a classic example of criticizing socialism by describing capitalism.
Sure hope nothing happens to their new CEO.

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We don’t take kindly to Aliens ‘round these parts.
Heyyyyyy that's my insurance
If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s from January.
Straight to fucking jail. Jesus Christ.
I wish these people get to live under the systems they create for millions of people, with none of their priceless and benefits.
What utter cocksuckers. Every last person involved in this scheme deserves to be thrown into jail.
I did some research. Apparently the headline is sensationalizing it quite a bit.
What was really happening was UHC was rewarding nursing homes with incentives when the home reduced the number of hospital referrals for things that didn’t require a hospital visit, and instead took care of them properly. (Thus not shifting the responsibility). That is, not sending grandma to the ER every time she had a cough. This was better for the overwhelmed hospitals, people with real emergencies, and for the nursing home residents who would get appropriate care in-house.
Some nursing homes took this to the extreme and wouldn’t send their wards to the hospital for anything at all - resulting in unnecessary deaths, but that’s the nursing home’s fault, not entirely UHC’s.
I mean fuck UHC and health insurance companies in general, but this story is not as cut & dry as implied by the headline.
Looks like UHC didn't learn a damn thing.
It's the Free Market at work! The last healthcare CEO that got this psychopathic spawned a Free Market correction in the form of a pissed off customer who murdered him. As a result, his company, and all the other healthcare companies, loosened up their denials. THAT'S a perfect example of the Free Market at work.
It looks like we're due for another Free Market correction.
Damn. Chat, are the libertarians correct here for once?
The core libertarian philosophy of "Anyone can do what they want and is free to choose" reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1060/
Like yes, that's true, that's why I'm choosing to build a better society through socialism.
United Deathcare
Time for another ceo to bite it.
Behold: Efficiency!
Mario music gets louder
Luigi, save us, you're our only hope