Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered

• toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Their job is to attain shareholder value, not to legislate healthcare. If you’re relying on the charity of for-profit corporations run by shareholders then you’re going to have a sad time.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Their job is to attain shareholder value, not to legislate healthcare.

    Client Profile: UnitedHealth Group

    Total Lobbying Expenditures, 2025: $3,370,000

    :-/

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    • toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Whats your plan then, shame them for lobbying as well?

      Once we have sufficiently shamed all corporations then we will live in a utopia.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Whats your plan then

        medicare4all.org

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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure but it is sorta a treating the symptom and not the disease. Blackrock is right to sue them as a shareholder but companies should not be involved in people’s health care to begin with.

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  • Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually they’re wrong to do it

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you explain in what way you feel Blackrock is right? Do you feel that people’s lives and healthcare are less important than share holder profits for a company that sells you the promise of covering your medical expenses because that’s what you are specifically paying them to do because they gave you a legally binding agreement to do so? How does a health insurance company insuring healthcare costs out them in the wrong? I really need a clarification here.

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