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The attack on the 50-year-old executive—allegedly by the now 27-year-old Luigi Mangione—immediately sparked an outpouring of public fury not at the gunman, but at UnitedHealthcare itself.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 84 points 6 days ago (3 children)

However, while it's understandable for consumers to get angry at their health insurers, it is also important to remember "there is no easy answer" for such companies as they navigate costs and care, Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Newsweek.

There is a very easy answer. Eliminate the health insurance companies. They do not improve healthcare and serve only to increase costs by extracting profit.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The profit motive does not belong in any industry of necessity.

The capitalists have metastasized into education, Healthcare, and bastardized any and all forms of food to maximize profit at the expense of their humanity.

They've brought us to our knees, and before the capitalists are done, death will be a mercy to most.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Education in the US was at its height when it received ample public funding.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 6 days ago

death will be a mercy to most.

In the future, it will be a privilege to die, at least the way this train currently going

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They are a wholly unnecessary middleman extracting a rent where none is due. They slow down the speed of care and needlessly complicate a very simple system.

It should not exist. They're the landlords of medicine. Entirely pointless and nothing more than a detriment to the profession, service, and function of healthcare no matter if its picking up a z-pack for bronchitis or having a tumor removed. Healthcare insurance serves no purpose whatsoever.

A single, (truly) non profit insurer that has no ability to deny coverage and is fully funded by income tax could have an administrative purpose.

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Luigi offers an easy answer

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Fucking excellent. Hope we see a hundred more Luigi’s.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If they happen, the media will never let us see them. Just assume it's happening and we're all fed up with this shit.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I can't even start to understand how a healthcare organization has a stock price. They should be nonprofits to start with.

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And this brings up the other thing they are struggling to recover from. They were sued by blackrock for taking care of people too well.

Blackrock, that investment firm that you can't even divest from because your pension is tied to it. Which really peels back some layers on root cause analysis. Because blackrock and vanguard get management of this money pretty much by default when there is an institutional pension they have fuck you money. As in fuck you, it's my money till 40 years in the future.

The Healthcare United CEO is just middle management. All he's doing is taking orders in hopes doing that enough means his company survives. If he doesn't then the private equity firms and banks just fund the guy who will.

Larry Fink is the real management.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Prosecute United Healthcare for murdering their policy holders.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Literally murdering. They were asking healthcare providers at assisted living facilities to change elderly patients' records to add DNRs that the patients hadn't authorized.

Literally altering medical records to make sure people die instead of costing money.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 32 points 6 days ago

Free Luigi, and compensate him with a few million dollars from United Healths bloated coffers for inflicting so much anguish on this innocent young man.

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

The Shakespeare of our time

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago

Oh no...

Anyway

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't this headline a bit legally sketchy being at he's not been sentenced yet

[–] SoloCritical@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This comment is legally sketchy being that in order to be sentenced you need to be guilty? He hasn’t been found guilty yet.

[–] Padit@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

ESPECIALLY, since he was at my place, playing PS5 with me, when the Murder allegedly happened!

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And either before or after he was at my place vibe coding some fixes for civ6. Guy is a real GOAT.

I was there when the murder happened. It was a one armed man. This whole thing is a witch hunt.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Bold of the writers to chose the word "Recover" as related to Luigi. Could have been something like, "United Healthcare Struggles to Resume Exploitation After Luigi" or "Unites Healthcare Struggles to Interfere with Healthcare after Lugi".

[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure their struggles aren't b/C of Luigi. It's b/c they murder people.

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