UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot
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I heard a leftist pundit today observe that this public sentiment should be capitalized on by their party. I thought that was actually pretty smart. There's electorate gold for the party that can position themselves as the solvers of this pain point in the health care system.
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The problem is where the solution lies. I’m firmly of the opinion that it starts with transparency. What is my insurer paying (negotiated rates), what am I paying (with or without insurance), and what is this provider paying/accepting elsewhere.
The next thing is an acceptance by the consumer that they have choices in this. The first $25K surgery to fix my finger failed. I am assured that the $70K surgery will succeed. You know what? It looks ugly, and aches occasionally, but I don’t need to spend my own money to fix this. It works fine, I can play piano and saxophone as well as I could before…
Just because my doctor recommends it doesn’t mean that I need to…
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Beyond that, I am sick and fucking tired of paying $100 for a prescription that the same pharmaceutical company sells for $5 in India.
The Brad
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The answer sure as hell isn’t having a government that switches mentality every 4 years take over.
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The answer sure as hell isn’t having a government that switches mentality every 4 years take over.
@LuFins-Dad said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
The answer sure as hell isn’t having a government that switches mentality every 4 years take over.
Obamacare or something similar, is here to stay, and I didn't hear anybody campaign on any promises to just dismantle it. Trump talks about replacing it "only if he has something better". Whatever we do, won't necessarily be a temporary thing that gets reversed every four years.
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Beyond that, I am sick and fucking tired of paying $100 for a prescription that the same pharmaceutical company sells for $5 in India.
@LuFins-Dad said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Beyond that, I am sick and fucking tired of paying $100 for a prescription that the same pharmaceutical company sells for $5 in India.
Yup.
I had some medication in the US that was about USD$1/pill and by prescription.
In Thailand, I would just walk into a pharmacy and buy it and it was about 20% of the cost.
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Ok, but he had several jobs in the last few years. Was he a member when his health shit happened? Was his mom a member when hers happened?
From my read of the guy, admittedly (and obviously) based on nothing but news coverage, I can't imagine him icing the UHC CEO when it was (say) Aetna that fucked him over.
I have questions.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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Ok, but he had several jobs in the last few years. Was he a member when his health shit happened? Was his mom a member when hers happened?
From my read of the guy, admittedly (and obviously) based on nothing but news coverage, I can't imagine him icing the UHC CEO when it was (say) Aetna that fucked him over.
I have questions.
@jon-nyc said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:
Ok, but he had several jobs in the last few years. Was he a member when his health shit happened? Was his mom a member when hers happened?
From my read of the guy, admittedly (and obviously) based on nothing but news coverage, I can't imagine him icing the UHC CEO when it was (say) Aetna that fucked him over.
I have questions.
From the article, this is the quote from the NYC Chief Detective -
"We have no indication that he was ever a client of United Healthcare”
My read? I don’t necessarily think he went there specifically for Thompson. It’s possible he just wanted A insurance CEO and Thompson was the first he ran into.
