And this is why no one gave a shit or even cheered when that CEO was shot. Health insurance as a whole needs to be completely dismantled and the healthcare system in the USA needs to be restructured. I understand if something like that were to happen, it would take many many years and a lot of work to accomplish.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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Got to love the American healthcare system. /s
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.
Luigi for president
Can we set up a fundraiser to pay off someone to let the CEO die?
Release the ~~Kraken~~ Luigi
Sounds like another CEO could use a high-velocity pat on the back.
#FreeLuigi
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
If what you're saying is 100% accurate, UHC still created, enabled, and incentivized an environment that led to some nursing homes to commit these horrible crimes. At best UHC should be considered an accessory to these murders.
I'd be very surprised if this possibility genuinely did not occur to them during their decision making. But the model they created conveniently puts the purported blame in the hands of other entities, so there was really no incentive for them to come to any other solution.
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.
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.
Heyyyyyy that's my insurance
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!
Luigi, save us, you're our only hope
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