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My feeling is this isn’t just about healthcare. It’s bigger than that. Sure, people have zero sympathy for United Healthcare given high denial rates, likely ill
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
My feeling is this isn’t just about healthcare. It’s bigger than that. Sure, people have zero sympathy for United Healthcare given high denial rates, likely illegal AI based denials, the breach of subsidiary Change Healthcare where they leaked everyone’s private medical details, the insider trading from the murdered CEO, etc.
But some of these issues aren’t health specific. Like the CEO’s insider trading - wealthy people often get away with financial crimes. And the context of the insider trading is that they were under antitrust investigation from the DOJ but didn’t reveal it to shareholders for months. And before they let the public know these executives sold their shares at a higher price. But the antitrust issue is one of big companies being safe from competition solely due to their size. And now we see massive amounts of resources spent on investigating this single murder when thousands across the country every year get no investigation.
All this highlights a massive unified appetite (across the political spectrum) to create a fair system for everyone, to bring megacorps under control, to treat different citizens equally. And that’s bigger than healthcare.