UHC CEO Gunned Down in Midtown Manhattan
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Anonymous
He might still be a hero if he targeted banking, people hate those usurious credit card interest rates and the predatory overdraft fees. |
Anonymous
It is a sin to open a business to take of old people whose own families can’t or won’t take care of them? Yes, a profit is necessary because otherwise who would do this? What is your proposal to take care of people with dementia? |
Anonymous
I dont want it. I’m European, was just explaining the gist of things. It’s better here imo- quality of care, economy, taxes, innovation, individual options (ie my schooling wasn’t throttled down or the govt didn’t pick my major and profession). |
Anonymous
Many family offices are 100-400m$$ Hence the qualification of “super wealthy.” Ie living off the interest of your interest. |
Anonymous
Agree . Damn is he hot though and with his smoldering eyes and height. |
Anonymous
| I wonder if he has mental illness. The estrangement from his family and his willingness to act out on his ideas seem a little unusual. |
Anonymous
+1 Normal by all accounts. He must have really catastrophized something and had no one mature to trust or talk with about it. Sigh. |
Anonymous
For the educated, it's mental illness. For the poors, the frontal lobe aren't fully developed. |
Anonymous
Maybe he just shot a guy in suit that morning. That was all. Who else gets up and out before 7am but hard working senior people? |
Anonymous
Hard to say. People going off the cliff usually isolate themselves. You have to get to them. |
Anonymous
He’s very attractive, smart and educated. Was on a successful path, then derailed. Not sure if he’ll ever smile again but with looks like that…. |
Anonymous
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Did anyone read the CNN article about health insurance denials? On a personal level, they are all terrible stories … but on an economic/policy level, I’m not so sure.
The 70 year old woman from Worcester complains that she pays hundreds of dollars a month but her insurer would not cover more than 6 weeks in a post-acute rehab center after her surgery, although it appears that center cost about 5K a week…..the economics just don’t add up. Most elderly people will have multiple health issues and surgeries are not uncommon. If the insurer is charging hundreds in premiums, yet paying out tens of thousands in provider charges, how can this make sense? It used to be that these large costs were rare so the premiums paid by healthy people covered the costs of the unlucky, but now it seems like almost everyone has some health condition or needs a surgery to improve quality of life. Post-acute in patient care is great but that wasn’t even really a thing 20-30 years ago—you just had to have family that would stay with you to help you post-surgery. And the young girl with cancer probably picked a cheaper plan with a higher co-pay, figuring she was young and healthy. Should insurance companies not be permitted to offer those types of plans? I really don’t know. The problem is that most health care consumers don’t really adequately assess their potential risks and everyone is operating with insufficient information about what their health needs might be, and what things actually cost. As far as the paramedic and his MRI….that seems ridiculous and he probably has a good appeal. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/business/us-health-care-insurance-frustrations/index.html |
Anonymous
This really isn't it. Americans go to the doctor less and spend less time in the hospital than people in other countries. There's a perception that Americans are lazy and stupid and go to the doctor for everything, but we actually consume less health care than in peer countries. The issue is that we pay more to doctors and hospitals for the same services. In our current system, each individual insurance company negotiates with providers to set reimbursement rates. Each insurance company has limited market power, so it can only negotiate the price down so much before the providers drop that insurer altogether. In a single-payer system, the government is the primary purchaser of services, so it has tremendous market power, allowing it to negotiate the price far lower than any one insurance company could. The government, unlike insurance companies, also isn't trying to turn a profit, which provides further savings. I'm not saying single-payer is the answer, but high costs aren't being driven by overconsumption of care. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health-spending-in-the-u-s-compared-to-other-countries/#Distribution%20of%20difference%20in%20per%20capita%20health%20spending%20between%20the%20U.S.%20and%20comparable%20countries,%20by%20spending%20category,%202021 |
Anonymous
Plus, the rich guy is a horrific criminal who defrauded millions of Americans. Let’s see what the DOJ will do with his cronies. |
Anonymous
| Unless there is a big study one off anecdotes aren’t going to change anything. They all cancel out |