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You must wonder if the board has a death wish at this point, otherwise they must be confident their 24/7 security is up the task
I think they probably count on the Edward Snowden effect - i.e. people are massively outraged for a few weeks, then they lose interest, move on to the next hot topic and nothing changes.
UHC is like: What is she gonna do? Wake up?
“Coma victims have poor aim” United Health, prpobably
Might have start going after shareholders if this crap keeps up eh?
These guys have not learned their lesson
I wonder how Mario feels about this while Luigi is on lockdown
Always more castles
To the absolute shock of all the people praising Luigi as the ultimate solution: nothing has changed.
Because work needs to be systemic. Not one-time adventure, but every tuesday in the morning.
You can kill an infinite number of people across all of time, but it’s not going to change the fact that profit exists to be made. The only solution is legislative. We have to vote DNC, like we did in 2010, but instead of stopping at 58 we need to get to 60. Only then will there be progressive reform with no compromise.
You’re gross and you enable grosser people
you’ve had 60. it doesn’t matter. what you need is to vote local and in primaries. you can’t keep letting the party establishment rot take hold and hope it will lead to change in the general elections.
you’ve had 60
When was that?
when Obama was elected. democrats had the presidency, the house and senate, with a supermajority. guess what they did with it: dick.
Oh, really?
yeah really, idk whay that is but a table only gives you a snapshot. 111th congress I believe had at one time majorities in both houses, and a 60-40, including the democratic caucusing independents.
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You’d think UHC would strive to behave impeccably with all the publicity around them lately. But no: they’re so shameless and so greedy they even behave rotten when everybody is busy dissecting their every moves. Amazing…
They’re not scared enough yet.
Why? “Line must go up”
If that were the case, they’d have off’d the CEO themselves. That’s multi-millions that could go back to other higher-ups. Then we have a Highlander situation.
The CEO serves a very important role in that they get all the fallout for what the board probably wants, and then if there’s enough bad publicity, they can fire the CEO and pretend that the CEO acted entirely out of their own volition.
I mean that’s not to say they’re not greedy bloodsuckers, but they’re greedy bloodsuckers that the board needs. Because the board are even bigger greedy bloodsuckers and want to stay out of the news.
If course, the board can also play innocent in any bad decisions, because they can just say “It’s what the shareholders want!” or “It’s what the consultants told us!”
One less golden parachute. More for the rest.
Because doing otherwise wouldn’t maximize profits. There’s no actual competition in the market for consumers to choose. Nearly all Americans get insurance through their work, and have absolutely no say in what companies those options are from, and those options might only change at the end of the year if the company changes their insurance partner (which I’m sure takes months to negotiate). UHC has no reason to change unless they are forced to. Customer Satisfaction in the industry is abysmal because there’s no incentive for the companies to actually be good.
“But free market and competition!!!”
🖕
They had their underwriters run the numbers and they determined it’s more profitable to continue business as usual and just invest in private security for executives.
It is more profitable that the beatings continue.
Of course they wouldn’t try to behave well. Remember that the bosses in this organization are all incredibly selfish. They are rich, they want to get richer, and f*** everybody else. Although the company itself might benefit from a positive PR campaign, none of these people individually would, so they’re not going to push for one.
It’s a strange kind of honesty about bad behavior. Everyone is so selfish that they can’t even pretend as an organization that they would like to do the right thing.
In Corey Doctorow’s short story (Radicalized, in the collection Radicalized) the health fund attackers typically used explosives against the entire board and their support staff
I wonder if that would be more effective
I don’t think you can pivot a 465 billion dollar company. Especially one where being unethical is a profit making feature.
They won’t fix themselves, hell why even reign it in if the system rewards bad behavior?
they know that the publicity is temporary and does not matter because a corporation is not a democracy
The simplest explanation is they literally can’t change, they’ve built this level of callousness into their DNA. It’s useful confirmation that for-profit health insurance is beyond saving.
CEO’s come and go and one just went
The ingredients you got bake the cake you get
So, if you get sick, cross your fingers for luck
‘Cause old Richard T. Burke ain’t givin’ a fuck
- Jesse Wells, United Health
What incentivize do they have? The vast majority of their customers have no choice but to be their customers. They just need to keep the companies that companies contract with to set up benefits happy. That’s a very small pool and most aren’t customers of theirs. And especially with the anti-regulation party coming into power, there’s no reason to fear government intervention. But even before that, it wasnt really a threat.
My employer had to hire a lawyer to get their insurance company to cover us and stop denying claims. It’s beyond fucked up out there.
Well shoot, what can be done to fix this?
Your second word.
Let’s take aim at this problem
CEOs will be blown away by the answer.
Whatever idea we come up with is worth a shot
I’m not sure, but I bet someone is losing their mind over this problem!
Super Mario Bros 2025
Bing, Bing, Wah-gunshots
What’s she gonna do, appeal?
That type of delay works for them just as well as any other.
Ai: “It is safe and profitable to deny this claim as she is unlikely to seek vengeance.”
AI forgot all the people who will seek vengeance for her, however…
