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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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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week 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.

[–] 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.

[–] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

They weren't sued for helping take care of people. It was a misleading headline. Theyre getting sued for failing to commit to taking care of stock holders.

[–] 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.

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

If only he had been born a corporation, they would only have charged him a fraction of any profit he made doing it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 291 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Luigi killed one man

United Health kills thousands on a regular basis

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 140 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Luigi has yet to be convicted of anything, but the sentiment remains.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 week ago

That's even better

Luigi allegedly killed one man

United Health most definitely kills thousands on a regular basis as a matter of company savings and profits

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 202 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Have they tried not being evil by design?

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

We tried being more evil, and when that didn't work, we doubled down. We dont know why it isn't working.

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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 181 points 1 week ago (16 children)
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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The shooting "tarnished UnitedHealthcare's reputation and disrupted its operational stability," Ge Bai, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, told Newsweek.

No, it did not, don't pin that one on Luigi.

UnitedHealthcare did that all on their lonesome, by profiteering on people's pain and suffering.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

“In a statement today, interim CEO of Cockroach Inc. expressed extreme displeasure that Luigi shined a light on their roaches nest for others to see.”

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[–] Proles_Uprising_Now@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Great news and this comment would get me banned elsewhere and that's why I am here .

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure lemmy.world will ban you for "promoting violence", but it probably varies by community.

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[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago (33 children)

I don't give a single shit about the welfare or public approval of any large profit corporation. I care even less about UHC specifically.

Anyone who still works there is complicit. The entire health insurance industry needs to be taken down and everyone involved shunned from society forever. It's an atrocity.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I love reading a feel-good story.

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[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The United Healthcare AI that killed your grandmother and mine is still at large.

We can talk about Luigi's alleged crime once this systemic violence is deposed.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (8 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.

Luigi offers an easy answer

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They're struggling to get over their own policies which were already unpopular but did serious damage once people discussed how crappy those policies were. Luigi was the spark. They built the house of match sticks and poured gasoline on it.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (29 children)

1st, Luigi didn't do it.

2nd, when was Brian Thompson's killer the CEO of United...?

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