• Eternal192@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    Does anyone know how many people his company screwed over by denying insurance claims or how many suffered and died due to not paying enough or not reading the fine print, i won’t celebrate his death but i can’t say i’m sad that he’s gone or anyone like him for that matter.

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      17 days ago

      The writing has been on the wall since the ACA got rewritten by these same companies. Instead of reforming the system to making it more fair these corporations were prioritized over us and our health.

      There is no path to justice, all the evil shit they do has been deemed lawful, so it’s not like a lawsuit will do anything and it’s certainly not going to change anything for anyone else.

      And now with the incoming administration teasing to remove even the smallest of teeth from the aca, it really does feel hopeless. The government is protecting profit over people and I’m surprised it took so long for somebody to finally snap. In an ideal society we would have reforms before stuff like this started happening

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        17 days ago

        It’s one of those situations where big money will use illegal or unfair means to sway or change law, then tell the people to “play by the rules” or “do it the right way” after having changed it to be heavily in their favor. Most people will try to do it the “right” way too as it’s the only realistic option. Until it is so unreasonable that other methods end up being more palatable.

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          17 days ago

          It’s almost like unlimited corporate power and greed leads to more instability, who woulda thought.

          But corporations are people! Think about McDonald’s rights!!

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      17 days ago

      Right, like this person could have been a great dude on a personal level but his position at United health care is pretty evil and implicates him in that evil.

      Would certainly be exciting if the USA kicked off a movement here.

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        17 days ago

        Well, I don’t think you can separate his “personal” and “business” lives. I don’t think you can be a great dude and go to work instituting policies that kill people for money.
        Maybe he was funny and kind to people he knew, but he wasn’t a different person from the person he was professionally.

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      17 days ago

      What I saw online (take with grain of salt) is UHC has 29,000,000 customers, and a 32% denial rate (the highest in the industry), so that gives us a possible 9,280,000 people denied if there were 1 claim per person a year.

      That is obviously super rough guess, cause not every customer makes a claim a year, some may make none and some multiple for the same thing that could repeatedly get denied.