Why is United still allowed to exist?
TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive”
Submitted 1 day ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 day ago
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Obviously, consumers want this or they would switch to a competitor. Free market will take care of this if it’s really a problem. ~/s~
arrow74@lemm.ee 1 day ago
We need a corporate death penalty. If your company murders people it should be dismantled and sold off.
I’d love it if the senior executives also faced charges, but I’d compromise
Taleya@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
How about we gaol the company and dismantle the execs
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same with regulations being rolled back. I would love to see a 10 billion dollar price tag be marked for every life lost do to a practice a company was required to perform, then was allowed to stop because an administration rolls back regulations. Just because a regulation was rolled back doesn’t mean there wasn’t a known threat to someone’s life. Executives should all receive pre-meditated murder convictions, and the fines be paid directly to the family’s with no ability to declare bankruptcy to default on it. If a new company is started by any of the people involved the unpaid costs should transfer indefinitely ensuring they cannot own anything until they pay off the 10 billion.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You can make money but don’t screw people, nobody is above the law
Zenith@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I promise you this is standard practice, which is why it’s allowed
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ROI
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Because people were afraid to have the government determined when it is financially infeasible to keep someone alive so they let the free market do it instead.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Capitalism be like that
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This should be used as evidence for Luigi’s innocence
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Self defense.
Zenith@lemm.ee 1 day ago
And this is why you don’t get universal healthcare. The fact is capitalism thinks you’re too expensive to keep alive. If you’re not putting in more than you’re taking out, at all times, you’re a loss. You are not worth anything expect your productivity and what you can provide to your overlords.
MrPiggyman@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.
If you stop using “le capitalism bad” more people will lisent to you.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Couldn’t be more wrong.
We have public health DESPITE capitalism.
Capitalism didn’t produce them, they were fought for and earned with sweat and blood by the people, same as workers rights.
And slowly but surely capitalism is breaking them down and eroding them.
Slowly but surely we are creeping towards the same situations in EU.
All thanks to your precious capitalism.Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.
The EU has socialist / non-capitalist parties that have fought tooth and nail for socialized medicine and labor protections. The US doesn’t have non-capitalist parties to fight for the working class.
So in other words, the US only has capitalism and our government only represents the interests of capital (our government doesn’t do anything unless capitalists are allowed to get their hands in it to funnel public funds into private pockets)
SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Holy fucking shit. I knew stuff like this was happening. But this is. Just. This is why you don’t add middlemen into healthcare. They don’t have an oath.
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Corporate has already bought up most of your doctor’s clinics. This is why you get 15min, no more, your appointment is gone if you’re 5min late, and may even have a fee charged for missing/not being on time for an appointment. It’s leading to doctor burnout.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Doctors work for insurance companies. Don’t they have oaths?
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
If so, then oaths clearly aren’t enough. We need to empower doctors to have more ownership over medical decisions.
This goes back to the heart of the issue of capitalism vs socialism: the people who have the actual expertise to do the actual work need to share in ownership over their work so that the work gets done properly. Doctors should be at the helm of the healthcare industry just like engineers should be at the helm of Boeing.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
Burn this whole fucking system to the ground
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
Agreed. The US’s entire political system is broken beyond repair (money directly buying political representation, hyper polarization from our two party system) and evil beyond redemption (funding genocide, bombing other countries, and allowing corpos to kill Americans for profit)
Taleya@aussie.zone 15 hours ago
I love how they’ve gone from scapegoating an “assassin” to scapegoating the company in an attempt to placate the masses
thedruid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
End these fucking corporations
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine if a single person had done what these companies have done. They would be regarded as magnitudes worse than literal Hitler.
But because that person is a corp, no one gives a shit and even congratulates them on being so SUCCESSFUL.
When I say every CEO and board member of every company are horrific, beastial, monstrosities that should have no consideration as to their rights or desires, I mean we all need to go to their houses in the dead of night and do what seems fitting.
We need a mob of millions of feral humans ripping this garbage out by the root. Rip them limb from limb in the fucking streets.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well yeah, obviously. They get sued by BlackRock if they don’t do that.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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