actually it makes complete sense, any detail around the case will spark searches, those searches affect the algorithm and those results will show up as part of trending topics, basically. like i saw a couple videos talking about the pistol used, but hadn't searched it... so people are interested in knowing how he died, but unconcerned about this man being caught, which when one considers the big picture, also makes complete sense.
This was so well hidden within the web. On year later and we are finding out about how brutally Americans health has been treated. Shame on all the insurance companies. (health, home, auto) Not to mention now we'll have souring costs for energy. Not only are the rich getting richer but now we can't even be healthy.
He’s a finance executive, just like all running hospitals today. In fact, finance is running everything on the stock markets, all the CEO’s are finance, no matter what business they are inside of.
also in stereotypical big suit fashion in the west these days; his replacement has professed to have learned nothing, already vowed to double down on greed. Hope he will be looking up at all of us like is late peer soon.
I was a pharmacist. I tried to find an ethical place to practice throughout the industry with no luck. I quit in 2020 in disgust. We don’t have healthcare in the USA, we have a Profitcare system for billionaires.
We have Obamacare. I used to have great insurance until that came along. My best friend is a Dentist, and I remember him telling me how little the government pays. But we sure pay them enough in taxes. It could be worse. We could be like Canda where they are talking the elderly into assisted self deletion so they dont cost more money.
@@marissashantez6051 No, no where is worse than the USA. If Covid proved nothing else, it proved that. We have about 4% of the global population yet had over 20% of the deaths. And that’s not counting the vaccine injuries.
@@marissashantez6051genuinely couldn’t be worse. The fact that the USA has the resources it has while providing the healthcare it does is criminal, people willingly allow themselves to die rather than put their families into debt and we just treat it as business like normal
RUclips recommending this to me 48 hours after the CEO of UHC was assassinated is top tier dark irony It's almost as if someone really hurts thousands of people, someone , somewhere is eventually going to take matters into their own hands
The reason is simple: the algorithm doesnt consider reasons. It doesnt lie. This is a video about the thing that is in the news. No human hand was party to it although that may change now as youtube may be scrambling to change it.
I hope then that someone doesn't take matters into their own hands and deals with the vigilante or their family members. It would be a shame if a vigilante took out their frustration over brazen murder on one of the other vigilantes family. But that can't be the society you're advocating for, correct?
@@charlie-qh2ll It would be a shame if you had an aneurism trying to cope while licking the boots of a millionare scumbag who is now in a better place after his claim to our sympathy was denied.
How sick it is that a handful of people are making millions and billions from other people's pain and suffering, from homelessness, from hunger and thirst.
thats just eurocentric culture aka monarchy. if we actually pay people a substantial amount of the profit they are generating then how are monarchs supposed to spend a billion dollars a year on parties and cocaine and human trafficking victims for them to torture and r4p3?
It is easy to price gouge essentials when you gave them monopolized. Biden wants tto be FDR, but he still sucks the cock of the trusts. Trust busting must make a come back.
Ya, it's just capitalism. And they own the politicians too, so we can't vote our way out of it. And they own the supreme court, so we can't sue anyone. REVOLUTION.
I worked in a call center for United Healthcare. It was the hardest job I had ever done. Hearing the pain and desperation in people, and knowing the system would do nothing for them.
I'm one of the guys who train new agents on the bpo side of things. It's one of the reasons why I get a little sad whenever I'm assigned a healthcare class...
what change? nothing has changed, just a figurehead died. the working class should be concerned that it took a disgruntled rich dude to shake things up. it's gonna take a lot more action like labor organising even militant if needed to actually change things drastically.
I am a 17 year cancer survivor. UHC denied my doctor's request for iron infusion when I was anemic. I am sure I am not the only one. I can't stand it that these greedy corporate bastards dictate our healthcare more than our doctors.
I understand all to well. I work as a nurse and now believe that I have cancer. Working full time and pay over $700.00 month. Doctor ordered a xray for my chest. Insurance company denied it. Finally I got a lawyer for help. Been a nurse for almost 2 decades. No almost 58 years and this system is terrible. Had blue cross for years paying out of pocket over $1500 a month. January of this year, wanted to raise it another $275.00 a month which cost me about 35% of monthly salary.
I just started peptide collagen with bovine from my health food store. Instant energy. I don’t eat meat,or chicken or pork. Keto diet for now. I was endemic as a child. Raisins have too many carbs for me. Hate liver 😂😂
Move to a primitive tribal culture. They dont have med insurance. Britains NHS has finally admitted it has serious problems. French socialized med does not pay for med for very old people because they are retired, unproductive and dont pay taxes. You are alive because of the corporate "greed" that makes virtually all that you use every day. For virtually all of mans 300K year existence, before corporations, average mortality was late teens to 30 years. Govt controls virtually the entire economy. You evade long-range, indirect, unintended effects of govt controls.
And guess what? The most vicious thread on Reddit was generated by physicians and health care workers who have to do daily battle with corporate greed just to keep their patients alive.
I’ll never forget coming off of the ambulance, slipping in and out of consciousness, and the first thing I’m asked upon arrival is, “What’s your insurance?” What sickens me even more is that if someone tries to murder me, I have to deal with the repercussions of the medical bill. 10 million for a coworker’s son’s cancer treatment. He’s 8 years old, and the parents are 10 million in debt, and he previously relapsed. $500,000 for one radiation treatment.. that’s not even United insurance!
As a medical billing specialist, I see firsthand the bullshit the insurance companies put on doctors and patients. Such a broken system that needs to change.
Former biller - found another job because of the toxic environment… First: the worse I saw by greedy insurance companies; denying subsequent EKG procedure and reads during the same visit. The read itself (at the time) was $23.00 reimbursement and the procedure was $52.00. The insurance company over night denied all secondary EKGs. Causing over 4,000 reads to deny in one week, for standard care. Someone comes in to the hospital with chest pains, run tests including a EKG, find irregular heart rhythm, provide medications, runs another EKG to evaluate - rinse and repeat until symptoms resolve. The insurance company wanted us to print each EKG read with date and time stamp to prove the hospital preformed the each EKG. The man power alone on both sides of the business would cost more to appeal the denials then to just pay in the first place. Second aspect: the CEO would receive up to a $45K quarterly bonus if the receivables improved one quarter over the other… none of the billers earned over $40k. Constantly “yelled” at from top down because the CEO want his bonus, none of us doing the work had the privilege of receiving. And to add salt to the wound, CEO got a fully covered health insurance plan, no premium, no co-pay, no deductibles, no co-insurance. While the bottom rung, making on average $35K a year, had to pay 100% of the premium (employer contributed nothing); the most ‘affordable’ was a high deductible plan (individual $2,800.00) cost $330 a month, and my in network was the hospital network I worked for. Just before I started, your onboarding paperwork included a Medicaid application… we worked for a 5 hospital network and they wanted to charge us for everything. Couldn’t even offer a free annual check up.
@@charlescameron2732 "The Internet” was made by people with public educations in collaborative environments. Its standards are governed by a non-profit org. All the start-up kids benefitted from public + collective institutions. Yet they get to subsidize all that & privatize the profits off the backs of others? Why are you SO AFRAID of envisioning something else? Other systems are possible. The people who say this is human nature are only telling you half the truth - human nature can also pull together & make better choices & do great things TOGETHER.
OMG - we used to have Aetna. They are so awful. They would automatically deny every claim we made (and we didn't make many, we've been fortunate to be relatively healthy) and I had to appeal every single time. It was so damned frustrating.
he is absolutely wrong. All health insurance companies spend 80% of premiums on healthcare. This is the 80/20 rule. They do not profit from denying claims. In fact, this lowers premiums for us. If you want a company that pays more claims, you will pay more in premiums. If you think the government should take over and pay all those claims, congratulations, we will pay for it either in taxes or inflation. United health care profit margin was 6% last quarter. For comparison, rates in a money market are about 4%. people have lost their minds. They think they can make life or death judgements without knowing anything about this topic.
@@chasejones8302 are you saying that denying claims lowers premiums? Then what are we paying the premiums for? healthcare is expensive because of the insurance companies inflating the price so that they can give you a "better deal" and "lower premiums". You don't need to understand complicated contracts and financial reports to know that people die at the whim of health insurance companies every day. I care more about the bonuses these executives receive than the profit margins of the whole company anyway. We arent making a life or death decision, we are making a judgement of someones murder, a murder that symbolizes the real harm, anger and grief that is catalyzed by these insurers denying claims and executives deepening their pockets. You are a bootlicker, and need to understand the grief these companies cause, the real physical harm, the drug problem in america, what redeeming qualities does American health insurance offer?
As an ER nurse I remembered a few years ago watching our homeless mentally ill patients slowly die with each successive ER visit from a lack of insulin and yet my fellow nurses mentally could not process that it didn't need to be this way. They got mad when I explained to them how insanely and uniquely dystopian America is because they've been spoon fed since infancy that America is the best country on earth and can't fathom another system or way of life. Showing them how the rest of the developed world lives and they instantly become defensive and mad. When you wait 6 hours in the ER, it's because the rich neighborhood NIMBYs keep calling 911 on the homeless mentally ill patient that we just discharged because of a lack of a social welfare net. Rich NIMBYs just keep calling 911 and cops just keep dumping them on us via ambulance and they get to be seen before you if you are not critically ill. When it gets freezing overnight, all the homeless come to the ER declaring that they want to harm themselves so they can be held for a psych eval so they have a warm bed to sleep in and food to eat. They know this and we know this. That's how sickening the system is.
thank you. can you please clarify your point for the people who will read this and see the take-away being homeless people cheating the healthcare system? it's not what i hear you saying, but i know how people co-opt and repurpose damning information.
I seem to be having the unfortunate experience of interacting with clinic and hospital staff often over the past few years. These are among the finest human beings on the planet. I can't help but comment when first interacting on the sorry state of our medical care system. Maybe these great people are simply being nice, but whenever I point out the obvious flaws in the system to them, agreement has been nearly universal.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need. Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I work as office staff in a Psych office. The highlight of my day is yelling at health insurance companies when they deny prior auths. It's the simple joys
Two years ago I got hit by a car while biking to work. Hit and run. The insurer would not pay for the ambulance to the hospital because it was not an “in network” ambulance. Since when does someone in that situation have a choice of ambulance services?
I got denied on the ambulance when it was required between two hospitals. It was UHC. The county fought for me luckily, it’s the only reason I didn’t have to pay it. They’re ghouls
Most hospitals don't have a very large ambulance fleet as they don't contribute much to the "bottom line." What private ambulance services do are to position their ambulances in strategic locations to intercept calls. My partner went to the hospital fairly regularly in the north Atlanta suburbs for a while. Not a single trip was in network. Ever.
This is typically the choice of the ambulance company and not the insurance company. Many ambulance companies believe they make more money by NOT contracting with insurance. Instead, they negotiate for the most money every single ride. Since people don't chose their ambulance (as you mention), there isn't a promotional incentive for ambulances to be "in network" (unlike a doctor). Most of the time the ambulance and insurance reach a deal, but the person is sort of collateral damage in the middle (unfortunately). There have been some recent related laws around this, but insurance wants to negotiate a set rate whiles ambulances want to make as much money as possible.
I was a teacher for 20 yrs. When I started we had 5 different insurers to choose from, now we only have a single company, BCBS. Sooo how responsive do you think that insurance company is to it's customers when the company knows we are stuck. The state of TX decides the companies available FOR ALL TEACHERS IN EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT. ITS INSANE. Our premiums go up yearly, yet we are told this is the only way to keep costs low. It's a SCAM!!
I work at a subsidiary leg of BCBS, but even as an underpaid low level employee I'm responsible for reviewing massive numbers of correspondences for the company at large (even high level legal and executive correspondences). However bad your experiences were with BCBS, or your perceptions of them are, it's much, MUCH worse than just a scam. It's a legalized, legitimized protection racket fully aware that what's in the best interests of claimants is diametrically opposed to what's in the best interests of their own profits.
BCBS has provided excellent quality and accessibility over the past 35 or so years. Biggest threat to me is Government trying to Socialize my Healthcare Dollars.
@@kevlar7669 Ooookay 🤦💅 I'm going to "say" this sloooowly. Monopolies... ARE... BAD‼️ SMMFH Competition counteracts monopolies. #HelloShermanAct 👋 It lowers costs and improves a product/service via innovation and customer demand. Got it?!?🤦#Econ101 👍 Teachers don't get a "vote" on which companies are available. Teachers can't leave their plans and have ZERO input on the plan features and benefits. Teachers, despite having ZERO control, still foot a LARGE part of the premium costs. Teachers are denied raises to our SALARY BECAUSE... INSURANCE PREMIUMS. 😡🤬 A half dozen humans in Austin,TX decide for HUNDREDS of thousands of humans their entire access to healthcare, and YOU , little trollie, jumped into my post to tell me some FK SH!T about "socialized healthcare" F.O.H!! Sheeesshh... Education has failed SO MANY. And I swear the rich love that fact. 🤦🤢
There are lots of things that should not be “FOR PROFIT”. ! Healthcare, Education, Incarceration, Post office, WAR! Even water sewer, gas and electric, all these services show what kind of a country we are.
ok but you NEED to start with "eurocentric culture must make dehumanizing everyone thats not born well off so illegal that no one does it again" or you will end up chasing your tail and wondering why things never get better.
Mine isn’t even that bad, but they denied my birth control pill because of the “brand.” I asked them for a list of brands covered by my plan so I could ask my doctor to write me that script. UHC never got back to me. I spent over 24 hours on the phone with them about this (not 24hr straight lol over the course of days). I eventually told them it’s a legal requirement under the ACA that they HAVE to tell me what birth control they cover. Crickets. I eventually got a different job and different insurance. I paid out of pocket for my birth control until then. Spent $450 out of pocket to not get pregnant.
My father died because they refused to put him in intensive care for the 3-5 days necessary, so rather than get better he got worse and died. My father and mother and Uncle passed away due to policies related to the seeking of profit.
Then why did you let that happen ? There adresses are known, if you want to visit them home. Or just organise a seminar about wealth managment and they will come to you.
I knew a retired Army nurse (RN), who had seen a lot over her long career. Tough as nails. In her retirement, she took a job with UnitedHealthcare. She thought she would be using her extensive professional knowledge and expertise to review and approve requests for prior authorization. Instead, she was told that her job was to deny care all day long. No matter how much the care was needed, she was to deny, deny, deny. It broke her, doing that. She quit within 6 months. We used to wonder why no one went around shooting insurance executives. Our conclusion was that it was just a matter of time and would take someone with nothing left to lose.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need. Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I’m a physician and during my residency, one of the patients on my panel was a young lady only a few years younger than me. She had sickle cell disease and was easily thrown into a crisis with exposure to cold, including air conditioning. Opioids tend to be par for the course with sicklers, but we were able to wean her down to fewer doses a day. Well, I did a refill for her one day and it was denied by United Healthcare Community Plan (Medicaid). I sat in my room one evening filling out the appeal forms answering stupid questions like “when is the medical condition expected to end?” And me answering, “Never. This has been since birth and will likely shorten her lifespan.” I would have to do some version of this appeal at least two other times during the course of my training and her being my patient. In fact, one of the times she was denied her medication, she ended up in the hospital for about 2 to 3 weeks… I wonder which cost more?😑😑 on top of that, the crisis left her at risk for potentially needing a shoulder replacement at some point in her life.
@@Nicole-vq9zm. The metric system was created by the French revolution. Universal healthcare was created by the socialist . It doesn't matter who created it .Both are good policies .
I treated a a man who was discharged from the local hospital with an observable infection - pus oozing from his infected cranial wound - He was s/p craniotomy and radiation tx for brain cancer. He had no family that I knew off and lived in his pick-up truck which was parked by his friend's commercial property so he at least had bathroom privileges if he could walk there. It was winter-time and a particularly chilly day when I found him in his camper - febrile, cold, lethargic and unable to walk without assistance. I called the rest of the homecare team for a stat visit and we sent him right back to the ER. He was discharged or dumped because he only had Medicare A. I don't recall if he had Medicaid. He deserved better
I have a lot of respect for you. You saw a desperate situation and you stepped up. The more I read these stories the more I am appalled. It's difficult to believe that we have spiraled down so low. For more than one reason, I am NOT proud to be an American.
The insurance company's response is going to be "how can we get better security for our C-levels" instead of "how can we fix the root issue making people unhappy". I hope they learn their lesson, but I doubt it
I don't think that the killer of Brian Thompson the CEO of united Healthcare skipped this video at all. I think he watched this video and then took action. A very bad decision very sad for the family of Brian.
Sadly if that’s the route to take I think it needs to be taken many more times before it leads to a significant change. Right now it’s just a plot that’s way off the line
Allegedly, 🥴 UHC cost my father-in-law his life! Refused vital treatment that his doctor ordered and then they (UHC) required him to do a stress test without oxygen, while on oxygen! 😳 Within three weeks, he was dead. They need to trust that the doctors know what they’re doing, they literally can’t do their jobs without it. Evil people!
All sorts of people feared the government becoming the complete controller of their lives. While they threw tantrums for decades they let businesses become the government. Turns out that this is a much worse outcome.
A government at least on paper has to be accountable to the people it is elected by, assuming we are talking about a republic (even better would be an openly socialist republic). A company is accountable only to its shareholders and making them big profits. People that stand for no intervention in the markets and fear monger about government intervention are not for freedom the way most people understand freedom. They are for their own freedom to leech off of working people. They are for their freedom to enslave you. Their freedom and working people's freedom are mutually exclusive.
@@russellpeacock what do you mean government control? If I am not mistaken in the past decades no North American or European country implemented any important nationalisation efforts. The opposite was true actually. Struggling countries were pushed to privatize even more under threats from the IMF.
My mom has cancer and her wellness exam was denied because the coder itemized the procedures and coded each of them individually instead of just coding “wellness exam”. They have to code a very specific code for the procedure to be covered. The billing department doesn't give a shit for their clerical error and send me the bill. I'm my mother's medical advocate and eventually get it fixed. But I am a college student and can do my research to fight, imagine someone with less privilege or has no one to help. The insurance company makes it extra- complicated and easier for mistakes to happen, and mistakes happen often. Now good luck figure out or suck up the cost
Oh yea that’s part of the game they play. They have divisions devoted to compliance and they make it complicated on purpose. They want people to be frustrated and give up.
I worked with someone at a temp job. Ran into him at the unemployment office. He had just gone through Insurance Code Training (not yet with their own campuses, student athletes deliberately given no time for studies, taxpayer backed student loans (where a private bank Loans the federal money but keeps the interest for themselves) for always increasing tuition costs). Yup, the Actor did it to California before doing it to us. Apparently, the training might get my ex-coworker a job with either an insurance company or with a doctor/hospital on the claims side. The Codes change regularly (so, found your healthcare coding university quickly to "get in on the ground floor" of students who graduate but needing to always learn the newest Codes). I don't know of a single doctor who wanted to go through such grueling education and training just "to get rich", there are easier ways. Doctors have to hire someone like my ex-coworker if they ever hope to get paid and his salary adds to the cost of course. "Thank God" one political party in Washington keeps us from expanding Medicare to everyone and permits private plans to also use the word "Medicare". By the end of January, 2025 they will be in charge of both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court.... "Freedom", courtesy of people who voted based on 30 second commercials.
@@Polit_BurroOnly in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need. Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
The facts that this dude in his room can make an incredibly articulated well researched piece of journalism and all the major news networks can’t says a lot about the corruption inside the news networks ... Huge respect! 🙏🏽🙏🏾🤷
The caption for the video took me aback: "Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly..." I have a feeling somebody saw this video and left a message in his backpack in Central Park.
What makes you think some RUclipsr can be trusted? This channel has an agenda. That makes them biased. Accept the fact that you are not an expert on insurance or healthcare, so you can’t know if they’re even telling the truth or the key facts that are necessary to make a fully informed opinion. 99% of people never do their own research so they take some total stranger’s assertions as fact. Being able to vote or having health insurance yourself doesn’t make you an industry or health policy expert anymore than being able to flip a light switch makes you a master electrician.
The concerning thing is that we have always agreed on this problem, but people still don’t vote to fix it. They vote for people who undermine and try to profit off the system… like Trump… it’s so sad that people can’t see it.
Doctor here. We aren't the ones getting rich off our current medical system. Physicians account for only 11% of medical bills. Administrators and insurance are 25% of that bill.
i can assure people that all doctors want is the betterment of their patients. meanwhile administrating leeches with MBAs want nothing more than to get rich
Now that I'm done screaming... I work in a pharmacy. I'm a technician, I see this every day. Here's a fun example of how f🤬🤬🤬ed up this s🤬🤬t is; methadone is used to treat opioid withdrawal and to help people with opioid dependency (I won't even go into that one, you all know about it)...but if you write a scrip to treat the addiction insurance will deny it 90% of the time...so...you have to write it to treat pain. Sildenifil is used to treat pulmonary hypertension, but if the scrip is written to treat PHT the insurance will mandate Revatio which, if they pay (because they can mandate a brand name and still deny paying it) it will cost a patient at least $300, but if you write it for ED they will pay for it with maybe a $5 oop cost. I used to handle synagis for premature infants, you know so they can breathe (silly thing for babies to want, right?) and I would have to tell parents of twins that one twin would be covered and the other would be denied and and need a PA (prior authorization...)...all the time. So, let me translate that last one for you; one baby gets to live now the other...has to wait for an adjudicator to decide if it's profitable for it to live. Even though NOTHING BUT THE NAMES WERE DIFFERENT! FUCK OUR FOR PROFIT ADDICTION SYSTEM!!
That's insane that they'll be like "Oh PHT is life-threatening, but nah we'll deny it." Then when someone can't get it up they're like "Time to do my job." And then with the sick baby thing, that's just horrid that these companies are doing that.
@@eric2500 no, the real horrifying part is how the corporation treats the pharmacy. They recently terminated me for "insubordination" after I reported them to the Board and OSHA for not following their own policies on hazardous drugs, let alone regulated rules for them. Capitalism is a shell game.
lol I work for Optum in the Prior Authorization Department. Someone was told in my specific department that they were told that we don’t make money for the company and I told them no our job is to deny medications. We save the company money by creating obstacles and making it hard to get medication that are more expensive. Fun fact our insurance is terrible and we don’t have to outsource the healthcare. This video is so spot on and the most radicalizing force for me is working for Optum
As someone who reviews denials myself (as a third party) there seems to be a ridiculous amount of plan terminations that coincide with the first diagnosis for serious illness. Someone has their insuance for years, gets a complex (and expensive) diagnosis and suddenly they are retroterminated to the day or month before that diagnosis appeared. You seein this pattern too?
@@stevemora7845 well considering the average wage where I live is less than what I get paid it can’t be helped. Housing has killed most of my job search plans as the median wage is 37k and my rent is $1600 a month. I could look for different housing but my rent is below the average for the number of bedrooms I have.
@@theprecipiceofreason I am not seeing that but I am not in the healthcare PAs only the medication PAs. I have heard of this happening though even with people that work at Optum. Then again that would be anecdotal and would not be willing to say firmly it is a trend.
@@superduperdrew12345Imbeciles who think Trump is anti-establishment would even consider pardoning this guys.. He IS the establishment. And its not like dems are much better. We still haven't pardoned heroes like Edward Snowden.
UNH denied my claim after my son got hit by a semitruck. The doctors did a CT Scan, xrays, and labwork in the ER. He had to stay there for 3 days. It got denied because they said the doctor's treatment was EXCESSIVE. My son was bleeding and knocked unconscious. I don't get how them checking everything was Excessive but i paid the bill out my pocket and im a single mom so it wasn't easy.
I work for an insurance company and a pharmacy so I see the full spectrum. #1 everything in this video is accurate and I agree with. The only thing to add is the rising medication costs. Insurance companies won’t cover all medications because the drug industry is just as evil and greedy. So it’s the whole damn system that’s screwed. From insurers to drug makers to hospitals. Everyone is robbing everyone at the expense of healthcare professionals, small businesses, and the public
Also in the insurance industry here, and I second this comment. I wouldn't even say the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals are gouging each other, more that they have a symbiotic relationship where drugs being more expensive is an excuse to raise premiums, and higher premiums make a bigger pool of money to get away with charging more for drugs. It's in both industry's best financial interests to continually raise all prices indefinitely.
@@reverendblind oh yea for sure they have deals behind closed doors. But when they’re in front of congress they like to blame each other on rising costs. They know the public wont know better. They make the health system complicated so that educating the public becomes impossible. No public outcry no regulation.
As someone in pharma (biopharma specifically) it's so, so much worse. I don't work in R&D, so by the time I hear about a potential product launch, it's basically a done deal and just needs additional testing. I don't hear about the numerous tried-it-and-it-didn't-work projects, I hear about the ones where the company has gotten to picking-baby-names-and-decorating-the-nursery stage. And so many of those get patented/copyrights, and then never released to markets for really asinine reasons: they might have a single competitor that got to market first - sometimes by months - and the entire launch is scrapped because they don't want to compete, a new law went into place that won't let the company charge a 1000% markup, it affects a part of the world or population that was determined to not have enough money to bother serving. Mind, the heavy lifting for these are done. They've been researched. They're damn near ready to go and just need to get through approval processes in the markets they're intended for. These were *massive* investments, and rather than make slightly less money than they wanted, these medicines are withheld entirely. There were six of them back in 2022 that I knew of from my company alone. The company is shifting from R&D to just buying up smaller companies that have portfolios they like. First time in a really long time any major company got hit with an anti-monopoly sting, and you would not *believe* the whinging about it.
PHysician here--the middle people selling to pharmacies have had profits increase thousands of percentage points. Insurers and physicians are in an adverse relationship with some insurers hiring multi billion dollar vaccuum cleaner auditors who harass the heck out of physicians offices escalating costs. Many residents owe 1/2 million dollars in student loans and have trouble with the $8000/month payment for student loans.
As a solo practicing physician, I am so glad you are pointing out the disgusting monopoly of medical insurance companies in healthcare. I am so tired of their dictatorship that I am quitting it now . If I was not getting social security, I wouldn’t have enough money from my practice to pay for living expenses.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need. Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I saw someone commented he has seen them getting back to work as usual, the colleagues of the CEO walk past his dead body like nothing. Even his colleagues couldn't care less about the situation.
@@minhducnguyen9276 when I heard the news that they "stopped the conference early" instead of canceling it all together, I was like, holy shit. That is soooo dark. "Walking past" like you said. Chilling
Remember lots of people work in these insurance companies, they get promoted for denying claims. Does your neighbor deny claims on Monday after attending church with you on Sunday?
@@dersegavas67941) they weren't singling out christians but just pointing out how they can lead a regular life while doing horrible things at their workplace. 2) would Jesus do that is not a gotcha bro, ppl aren't comparing themselves to God lol "what would the perfect, all knowing being do in this case?" we're all sinners señor(this includes u)
@@dersegavas6794 Because they're not real in their devotion. A lot of us who attend Church have a name for people who act that way. "Christian in name only." We don't' claim them.
I agree if you work for these companies quit and find any other job. Work two jobs if you have too. You are either with them or with the people. Choose
If only the cosmos worked that way. I think "western" religion was invented to protect the wealthy & powerful because, instead of holding them accountable now, they will be punished for their sins in the afterlife. How convenient for the wealthy & powerful.
In VA BCBS was private and nonprofit until 1996 I think, if my memory serves me right.. So many things changed after that in the way things were perceived..
My father didn't have insurance and was dealing with bad back problems. I got him signed up for Medicaid through the government and he finally went to get a checkup. Stage 4 lung cancer, and it was only a couple months until he died. My dad didn't really understand Medicaid and I couldn't really talk to him about it because the cancer had spread to his brain. He was in the hospital and he had called my mom and asked her how much some of the things we're going to cost and she tried to explain it's free it'll be fine, but he was worried about it. And it's horrifying to think that at the end of his life, when he was trapped in the hospital during covid protocol, he was worried about putting us in debt. Nobody should have to feel that way during a medical emergency they can't control. I never in my life wished more that we lived somewhere that had a better health care system. I got to see him three times before he passed away, he spent most of that time in the hospital, and he didn't have the peace of mind that he was entitled to in almost every other country.
I'm so sorry to hear about what your dear father went through with cancer and his back. Our messed up health care system. I am also sorry for your loss. I can so relate. I have stage 3 endometrial cancer and what my doctor has been through to get me treatment. At this moment, I have no treatment as UHC is denying me what I need. When I heard about their "ethos" and how at the heart they put the patient first, it makes me nauseous. These companies could care less.
@@beverlyho9559 thank you for the condolences and I'm so sorry to hear about your plight. I wish we could change the healthcare system faster so we could save more people. UHC seems horrible. I don't have much useful advice but if you are able, try to apply for the Medicaid in your state, you can have both insurances in some cases. They may cover something UHC will not. While I hate our system, Medicaid did at least step up and pay for my dad. I truly hope you are able to get the care you need and deserve. I'll be thinking of you. :)
I’m so sorry for what you and your father had to go through. We desperately need healthcare reform to prevent anyone and everyone from going through that. Please make sure you, your family and friends vote! Every tiny step forward helps, and every vote matters! There is power in numbers!
As an MD I can attest to this. I no longer accept HMOs because it costs more to attempt to collect anything from them than I can collect. I now charge $35 cash instead and am far better off. Medicare may not pay well, but it pays. I am trying to change to an all cash $35 office visit system, but Medicare patients are reluctant because they pay their premiums and expect their insurance to pay their bills. HMO or PPO patients usually have a copay higher than the $35 I charge them, so they are happy. Our system is a mess when a doctor earns less than a manicurist.
@@do9138 you have a twisted understanding of the Hippocratic Oath. When we say that the aim of our practice should be to do no harm, what we actually mean is that the benefits of the intervention should significantly outweigh the burdens, and that our interventions should aim at a patient's wholeness or health. I believe healthcare is a human right. I don’t believe I am a slave who should not be compensated. If a patient has insurance that I feel is more trouble than it’s worth, there are other doctors who will accept that insurance. Unless you have personally dealt with the provider side of the millions of different policies out there, you can’t reasonably offer an informed opinion, now can you? You can, however, half read a comment and have a knee jerk reaction that is neither accurate, nor helpful.
@@docinparadise Reply to the right person, Dr. Numbnuts. I didn't say anything about the Hypocrytic oath. But you're right. That's why we need nationalized medicine so YOUR profits don't prevent people from staying alive. An oath shouldn't be necessary to demonstrate EMPATHY. Doctors with no empathy shouldn't be practicing medicine. Go sell stocks.
@@docinparadise In other words, "First do no harm unless you can't profit enough from helping." Medicine is ALL about money. And before you ask if I would work for free, I almost do. I teach.
$35 is a bargain! You have sacrificed considerably to create an efficient system. And because you aren't an ER doc, you aren't legally obligated to see patients but tbh I didn't see anything that indicated you were reluctant to do so. In fact, only charging $35 is quite the opposite. And couldn't your medicare patients apply the office visit to their out of pocket maximum?
As an RN I consider an oath to the patient the very backbone of care. I do not work as a nurse currently because I can't and won't ethically, morally or professionally be part of a system that does not allow for patient centered care. Thank you to all who puts this video together and out into the world!
This is such an important comment, because it points towards the reality that turning the healthcare system into a for-profit system means that healthcare professionals who take their responsibility towards their patients seriously will inevitably leave the profession in large numbers as behaving ethically is made impossible. This ends up leading to the healthcare system in the USA being filled with individuals that don't really care about morals or providing good care, as the individuals who ARE decent at what they do and who DO feel called to do that work are either burned out or pushed out. (No judgement, necessarily, on individual people who go into Healthcare because they need money btw. It is what it is, I'm just pointing out the larger pattern.)
Same here. Nurse 10 years and NP for 20. During/After Covid, things got so much worse. I worked for major company who by the way was getting the Covid vaccines for free from the government by exclusive contracts. They got reimbursed by the insurance companies on vaccines they got for free paid by our taxes. A lot of the insurances denied payment and the patients were stuck with the bill?? Not only that, but because they came in multiple doses vials that were only good for 6 hours, they ended up wasting about 70% of the doses. Wouldn’t allow us to give them to anyone for free. When everyone else was losing money and going out of business, these fuckers made record profits.
My father works for United Healthcare, and no matter how much evidence like this I present to him, he remains convinced that private insurance is somehow more efficient and effective than universal healthcare. It's unfortunate.
Your average right winger in the anglosphere: "social health care means death panels" Meanwhile insurance companies automatically drop a significant number of claims and operate their own panels deciding who lives and who dies.
Talk to some vets. Nothing is perfect, but all the vets I've ever talked to rave about their VA healthcare. They know it can be improved in some ways, mainly in wait times for appointments, but by the same token, in most places it's pretty great care. The older vets I've talked to are happy that they have this as an option over standard Medicare.
It should be illegal for ANY insurance companies to be publicly held/traded. I saw McKinsey mentioned in the article you showed briefly, have you done a deep dive into them? I would really like to understand more about how McKinsey drives so much that is wrong with our country.
They're shady AF. Their reports have such good insights because they also provide legal & business strategy services to these kinds of parasitic corporations.
You are correct, McKinsey is a company brought in as a consultant, paid to create a study that agrees with whatever predetermined conclusion the customer wants McKinsey to arrive at. McKinsey cares nothing for the health of anyone other than their directors; they do not care whether any of us live or die. There isn't even a way for McKinsey to hear the healthcare problems they have created. That is by design; profit is the motive, not healthcare!
A few years ago I was in a car accident that changed my life forever. I have chronic back pain and my experience was so negative in the healthcare market I had to stop entirely and do what I could on my own because the constant anxiety associated with healthcare left me worse than I was before. If some tool surgeon convinced me to get a surgery who knows where I'd be today. Maybe right next to Luigi.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need. Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I got hurt at work around 2018 and was denied, asked to quit, had unemployment fought, got told maybe I was “born with” bulging disks in my upper spine, and they “lost” my X-rays at U.S. Healthworks after somehow managing to get them to the doctor- I asked for copies for myself. Aetna laughed at me over the phone. I was in the worst pain of my life and to this day my back hurts- it’s not the same. Nor have I had a real job. Not one job since.
They offered me 6.5k after breaking me down. I had to wait 2 hours one day at the doctors just to come out to the entire office scattering away from a computer when they saw me. (They forgot I was there.) even the doctor that saw me had been hovering over the staff all staring at the screen. 🚩
But also, for jury nullification to work, the jury can't mention it or give any clues that they know what it is. If they do, during or after, that's a cause to throw out the jury or declare a mistrial and do it all again with new people.
@@chriszhang1660 Jury nullification is a concept that a jury can choose to determine the defendant is factually guilty of breaking a law(s) but due to some other reason or principle (eg: they jury finds the law broken is unfair or unconstitutional) the entire jury reaches a not guilty verdict on the charge(s). My understanding is that it is not accepted as a legal concept and prior jury nullification verdicts have been overturned.
I work for one of these monster health insurance companies and I see cancer patients denied claims all the time citing "not medically necessary" for radiation treatment. $100,000 bills for 8 months of treatments denied so the doctor/facility is just screwed. It's sickening. These companies are purposefully as inefficient as possible too cause it helps their bottom line if nobody can figure out how to appeal and if all the rules for every plan are as different and indecipherable as possible. And the appeal timeframe for the plans I see is only 6 months from the date of service and our timeframe for responding is literally 2 months and we go over that all the time, sometimes just never responding.
What a disgusting practice. And it’s now illegal to not have health insurance.. at this point why should anyone continue living when they suffer this much? I’d rather end it myself in a painless quick way… I’m sad to learn that there are many near me that have already done this but this world is disgusting. It makes sense why people are doing it.
The doctor? I live in Vegas. There are no private practices. It's all healthcare corporations, and they hike prices to increase their profits. I don't cry when they aren't paid.
@@sergegainsbourgii1852 As a former biller; appealing = being annoying to the insurance company… polite, but annoying. Each carrier usually starts with 3 basic plans: commercial (through your job) Medicare advantage plan (Medicare ran by a private company ‘promising’ more coverage at ‘a little’ extra premium) and Medicaid Managed plan. Commercial is then broken up by HMO, High Deductible, and a PPO (to the subscriber: PPO is a combo of HMO and HD.) Medicaid Plan are broken down too based on income and family size: Medicaid Managed Care, Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus. Medicare can go wild depending on what add ons one picks. Medicare does not offer dental and vision. A private Medicare Advantage plan does, for a price. All in all, each plan has its own contract, with no consistencies, and the private company can change the rules month over month. So, knowing exactly what to do to appeal is impossible to know. Be annoying, but polite, and hope you speak to someone with empathy to tell you exactly what to do - personal experience, the workers for the insurance company are sickened by the system too.
Reminder I’m not in USA but a registered nurse in AUSTRALIA and United Kingdom. I have two registrations that I’ve worked hard to get. We as healthcare providers hate to have finical terms to our care giving. I’d hate to be a nurse in the USA. I couldn’t imagine turning away the sick over cost. It’s heart breaking. The world is with you USA on this. Be strong. Xxx love from an Irish nurse
@@bozomonster there are still people paying bills from getting injured at 9/11. 😒 they can't deny, but also do not care to make someone homeless due to healthcare ridiculous bills
I've been fairly fortunate, but I do have a story from last month. My doctor wanted me to get an MRI on my cervical spine to see if we can figure out what's causing my shoulder pain. At the same time, he also sent me for physical therapy. This was late June, and I had to reschedule my MRI due to not having authorization yet. On July 17, I received a letter from United that was dated July 10. It told me that I had until July 15 (2 days ago) to provide a bunch of information to justify the MRI. Now, I think all of that information should have been part of the original order from my doctor's office anyway, but that's a different story. A week or so later, I received another letter from United, dated July 18, denying coverage for an MRI because they deemed it "not medically necessary". Since then, my doctor's office resubmitted, and the MRI is now covered. My personal take on the issue is that my DOCTOR is the one who should determine whether something is medically necessary for me, not the insurance company. The insurance company's only job should be paying for it.
I had an orthopedic specialist visit for a similar issue with shoulder pain and needed an MRI. The scheduling associate said that it was good that I had real medicare instead of a medicare advantage HMO. I had not really thought about why she mentioned that until I read your comment comment.
isn't it insane how the doctors make people with obvious injuries suffer in pain through all these tests and fake therapies before finally prescribing opioids (when it's almost too late, or when it IS too late)? Maybe your shoulder would get better in 6 months with opioids because you start working through the pain again and healing..... but "opioids bad! no pain relief for you!" because little Timmy snuck into Grandma's medicine cabinet, took her oxycodone, went into withdrawal when he ran out and then went to the street to replace with heroin.... f*ck little Timmy, that degenerate piece of sh*t.... the rest of us chronic pain patients aren't over here getting addicted to our medication..... Besides, NOBODY overdoses on hydrocodone or oxycodone. That's baby stuff. It's fentanyl to be worried about.
I will vote for anyone that is for socialized healthcare and isn’t afraid to say it. Every time someone brings up how much it would cost for a government run program they somehow never compare that cost to how much Americans are paying companies like UnitedHealthcare. I am certain number is far higher than what we’d pay if it was a right.
Exactly!!! You get it. Who in their right mind would *prefer* to pay hundreds of dollars a month just to have to deal with co-pays, deductibles and at the end of the day may not even be covered for it, vs just having to pay more taxes? I think the lobbying is one of the biggest problems too. Literal political bribery, extremely undemocratic. I feel like if that was cut down on there would be so much less corruption, and I feel like we'd already have better and more accessible healthcare.
United healthcare told me after I made my first payment that I couldn't use it to pay for Type 2 Diabetes medication or treatment. Dropped it immediately.
The robber barons I work for switched our plan from Cigna to United effective 1/1/25. It’s not like we didn’t already know they didn’t value us, but this is too much.
@@JasonLarsen-t3vjust like all the tech bros going to the alter of Trump before the election, their algorithms know everything, and corrupt government facilitates all of the financial and physical abuse, by design.
insane youtube recommendation
I've been getting RUclips recommendations on videos of the gun what might have done used
Same here blud
actually it makes complete sense, any detail around the case will spark searches, those searches affect the algorithm and those results will show up as part of trending topics, basically.
like i saw a couple videos talking about the pistol used, but hadn't searched it... so people are interested in knowing how he died, but unconcerned about this man being caught, which when one considers the big picture, also makes complete sense.
W recommendation to see potential motive for the murder
Not really
Well, this aged pretty well.
Ahead of its time 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉prediction on ☝️
Like a fine wine
...unlike a certain CEO, who isn't ageing at all anymore.
@DK2522-c1k
Yeah a delicious 🍷 that I am savoring as I scroll through these comments! 🤣💀
This was so well hidden within the web. On year later and we are finding out about how brutally Americans health has been treated. Shame on all the insurance companies. (health, home, auto) Not to mention now we'll have souring costs for energy. Not only are the rich getting richer but now we can't even be healthy.
All the comments are either 1 year or 1 day old. 😂
1 year and 2 months exactly.
😂😂😂
Yep 😂
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rightttt lol
"RUclips curates your search activity to recommend the best videos that it thinks you're most likely to watch."
Oops billionaires, looks like the algorithm decided it’s your turn.
@@AndrewThoesen Kamala voters coming out in force in these comments.
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@@isaacleibniz2437 get off the internet and stop making comments like this and you're way more likely to find one.
That dead CEO was in town for a conference on INVESTMENT.
Not healthcare. Wealthcare.
He’s a finance executive, just like all running hospitals today. In fact, finance is running everything on the stock markets, all the CEO’s are finance, no matter what business they are inside of.
Yeah, well, they should stick to being CFOs, then. Ah, the joys of being modern-day Marie Antoinettes 🙃
Except Antoinette was not a CEO @@Mainyehc
Love this. Thank you for sharing.
also in stereotypical big suit fashion in the west these days; his replacement has professed to have learned nothing, already vowed to double down on greed. Hope he will be looking up at all of us like is late peer soon.
I was a pharmacist. I tried to find an ethical place to practice throughout the industry with no luck. I quit in 2020 in disgust. We don’t have healthcare in the USA, we have a Profitcare system for billionaires.
We have Obamacare. I used to have great insurance until that came along. My best friend is a Dentist, and I remember him telling me how little the government pays. But we sure pay them enough in taxes. It could be worse. We could be like Canda where they are talking the elderly into assisted self deletion so they dont cost more money.
@@marissashantez6051 No, no where is worse than the USA. If Covid proved nothing else, it proved that. We have about 4% of the global population yet had over 20% of the deaths. And that’s not counting the vaccine injuries.
@@marissashantez6051 Oh, FCS! Self deletion? What drugs are you on?
@@marissashantez6051genuinely couldn’t be worse. The fact that the USA has the resources it has while providing the healthcare it does is criminal, people willingly allow themselves to die rather than put their families into debt and we just treat it as business like normal
Mmhm! This is why im migrating out of US.
RUclips algorithm is doing its job
This is the same algorithm that Brian used to kill old people for profits.
Strange and unknowable are the ways of the Algorithm.
Commenting to help the algorithm reach more people.
Yep they're killing it with this one
Yeah I did a double take scrolling past it, like okay yeah this year old video does seem like it could be relevant today.
Well we know at least ONE person took this video to heart.
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😂😂😂
Wow 😂
... and to head, too, I guess.
Not good when a company specializes in Murders and Acquisitions.
RUclips recommending this to me 48 hours after the CEO of UHC was assassinated is top tier dark irony
It's almost as if someone really hurts thousands of people, someone , somewhere is eventually going to take matters into their own hands
Same
The reason is simple: the algorithm doesnt consider reasons. It doesnt lie. This is a video about the thing that is in the news. No human hand was party to it although that may change now as youtube may be scrambling to change it.
I hope then that someone doesn't take matters into their own hands and deals with the vigilante or their family members. It would be a shame if a vigilante took out their frustration over brazen murder on one of the other vigilantes family. But that can't be the society you're advocating for, correct?
@@charlie-qh2ll It would be a shame if you had an aneurism trying to cope while licking the boots of a millionare scumbag who is now in a better place after his claim to our sympathy was denied.
@@charlie-qh2ll I hope that you don't have a massive aneurism today, and end up needing medical care only to have your claim denied.
How sick it is that a handful of people are making millions and billions from other people's pain and suffering, from homelessness, from hunger and thirst.
thats just eurocentric culture aka monarchy. if we actually pay people a substantial amount of the profit they are generating then how are monarchs supposed to spend a billion dollars a year on parties and cocaine and human trafficking victims for them to torture and r4p3?
That's capitalism, baby! Be patient, eventually the Market Fairy will bless us all.
It is easy to price gouge essentials when you gave them monopolized. Biden wants tto be FDR, but he still sucks the cock of the trusts. Trust busting must make a come back.
Ya, it's just capitalism. And they own the politicians too, so we can't vote our way out of it. And they own the supreme court, so we can't sue anyone. REVOLUTION.
Pretty f**king sick. This 👆 idiotic mentality is part of the problem.
I worked in a call center for United Healthcare. It was the hardest job I had ever done. Hearing the pain and desperation in people, and knowing the system would do nothing for them.
I'm one of the guys who train new agents on the bpo side of things. It's one of the reasons why I get a little sad whenever I'm assigned a healthcare class...
I am glad to see you used the past tense. I hope what you do now is not so soul destroying.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE HOSPITALS BILLING CENTERS - EMBEZZELING!
One of my friends worked for them for many years. She retired years ago, but told me to never get their insurance. I'm sure it's worse now.
I’m right there with you, but Workers Comp is worse!
This is why it takes drastic action to make drastic change. None of us would have clicked on this video otherwise.
real shit though
what change? nothing has changed, just a figurehead died. the working class should be concerned that it took a disgruntled rich dude to shake things up. it's gonna take a lot more action like labor organising even militant if needed to actually change things drastically.
@isaacleibniz2437 you silly goose.... This is the start of a revolution. This is only the beginning.
@@lunaluna1123 i agree because not only are y right but yre also very beautiful. have a good day
@@lunaluna1123I appreciate your optimism but being realistic, what’s going to come out of this in your opinion?
I am a 17 year cancer survivor. UHC denied my doctor's request for iron infusion when I was anemic. I am sure I am not the only one. I can't stand it that these greedy corporate bastards dictate our healthcare more than our doctors.
I understand all to well. I work as a nurse and now believe that I have cancer. Working full time and pay over $700.00 month. Doctor ordered a xray for my chest. Insurance company denied it. Finally I got a lawyer for help. Been a nurse for almost 2 decades. No almost 58 years and this system is terrible. Had blue cross for years paying out of pocket over $1500 a month. January of this year, wanted to raise it another $275.00 a month which cost me about 35% of monthly salary.
I just started peptide collagen with bovine from my health food store. Instant energy. I don’t eat meat,or chicken or pork. Keto diet for now. I was endemic as a child. Raisins have too many carbs for me. Hate liver 😂😂
Capitalism sucks, and it certainly has no place in healthcare or education.
Move to a primitive tribal culture. They dont have med insurance. Britains NHS has finally admitted it has serious problems. French socialized med does not pay for med for very old people because they are retired, unproductive and dont pay taxes. You are alive because of the corporate "greed" that makes virtually all that you use every day. For virtually all of mans 300K year existence, before corporations, average mortality was late teens to 30 years. Govt controls virtually the entire economy. You evade long-range, indirect, unintended effects of govt controls.
@@TeaParty1776 we can all just become libertarians and learn to trade in gold and shave off a bit to game the system eh my friend lolzzz
You know the funny part about this, Is that someone finally went ahead and Voice our displeasure to the CEO of United
Citizens journalists must be protected ❤❤❤
@MathewSobotka
I believe that was customer feedback! 🤣💀
@@Cuddly-Cactusfrom all of us.
@@Cuddly-CactusHe got an in person denial of service. You typically only get it in the mail.
And guess what? The most vicious thread on Reddit was generated by physicians and health care workers who have to do daily battle with corporate greed just to keep their patients alive.
There is a good chance the assassin saw this video.😂
Thank God.
The Antihero
@@onemoregodrejected9369 you can drop the anti part
@@owen-trombone Hmm, hero would be someone fixing or succeeding to some extent on fixing the united healthcare system.
He read the unibombers manifesto
I’ll never forget coming off of the ambulance, slipping in and out of consciousness, and the first thing I’m asked upon arrival is, “What’s your insurance?”
What sickens me even more is that if someone tries to murder me, I have to deal with the repercussions of the medical bill.
10 million for a coworker’s son’s cancer treatment. He’s 8 years old, and the parents are 10 million in debt, and he previously relapsed. $500,000 for one radiation treatment.. that’s not even United insurance!
Your tax dollars will go to treating your attackers and his defense if he's poor
10 million??????? What?
oh my god your poor coworkers I’m so sorry for them
That's insane. Absolutely insane.
As a medical billing specialist, I see firsthand the bullshit the insurance companies put on doctors and patients. Such a broken system that needs to change.
abuse and greed, same old ancient story ever since capitalism
Govt-controlled med insurance and med. You "forgot" that.
@@IhaytFukkingsocialmediathanks to capitalism you could leave this comment...😂
Former biller - found another job because of the toxic environment…
First: the worse I saw by greedy insurance companies; denying subsequent EKG procedure and reads during the same visit. The read itself (at the time) was $23.00 reimbursement and the procedure was $52.00. The insurance company over night denied all secondary EKGs. Causing over 4,000 reads to deny in one week, for standard care. Someone comes in to the hospital with chest pains, run tests including a EKG, find irregular heart rhythm, provide medications, runs another EKG to evaluate - rinse and repeat until symptoms resolve. The insurance company wanted us to print each EKG read with date and time stamp to prove the hospital preformed the each EKG. The man power alone on both sides of the business would cost more to appeal the denials then to just pay in the first place.
Second aspect: the CEO would receive up to a $45K quarterly bonus if the receivables improved one quarter over the other… none of the billers earned over $40k. Constantly “yelled” at from top down because the CEO want his bonus, none of us doing the work had the privilege of receiving.
And to add salt to the wound, CEO got a fully covered health insurance plan, no premium, no co-pay, no deductibles, no co-insurance. While the bottom rung, making on average $35K a year, had to pay 100% of the premium (employer contributed nothing); the most ‘affordable’ was a high deductible plan (individual $2,800.00) cost $330 a month, and my in network was the hospital network I worked for. Just before I started, your onboarding paperwork included a Medicaid application… we worked for a 5 hospital network and they wanted to charge us for everything. Couldn’t even offer a free annual check up.
@@charlescameron2732 "The Internet” was made by people with public educations in collaborative environments. Its standards are governed by a non-profit org. All the start-up kids benefitted from public + collective institutions. Yet they get to subsidize all that & privatize the profits off the backs of others?
Why are you SO AFRAID of envisioning something else? Other systems are possible. The people who say this is human nature are only telling you half the truth - human nature can also pull together & make better choices & do great things TOGETHER.
I paid for Aetna health insurance and went to get a physical at CVS. I got charged full price because the CVS was “out of network.” CVS owns Aetna 🙃
wtaf
Oh it makes sense if you don't think about it
OMG - we used to have Aetna. They are so awful. They would automatically deny every claim we made (and we didn't make many, we've been fortunate to be relatively healthy) and I had to appeal every single time. It was so damned frustrating.
CVS - bottom feeders...
@@crysstoll1191 Can confirm. I used to work for them through CVS Caremark. They are the lowest of the low! UHC is right behind them.
Dude you were AHEAD of your time and none of us cared. Great work. Thats reporting at its finest.
he is absolutely wrong. All health insurance companies spend 80% of premiums on healthcare. This is the 80/20 rule. They do not profit from denying claims. In fact, this lowers premiums for us. If you want a company that pays more claims, you will pay more in premiums. If you think the government should take over and pay all those claims, congratulations, we will pay for it either in taxes or inflation.
United health care profit margin was 6% last quarter. For comparison, rates in a money market are about 4%.
people have lost their minds. They think they can make life or death judgements without knowing anything about this topic.
@@chasejones8302 are you saying that denying claims lowers premiums? Then what are we paying the premiums for? healthcare is expensive because of the insurance companies inflating the price so that they can give you a "better deal" and "lower premiums". You don't need to understand complicated contracts and financial reports to know that people die at the whim of health insurance companies every day. I care more about the bonuses these executives receive than the profit margins of the whole company anyway.
We arent making a life or death decision, we are making a judgement of someones murder, a murder that symbolizes the real harm, anger and grief that is catalyzed by these insurers denying claims and executives deepening their pockets.
You are a bootlicker, and need to understand the grief these companies cause, the real physical harm, the drug problem in america, what redeeming qualities does American health insurance offer?
@@chasejones8302The simping is crazy. They’re not going to approve your insurance lil bro.
@@chasejones8302 United Healthcare certainly think they can make life or death judgement without knowing anything about medicine. Fair is only fair.
@@chasejones8302 United Healthcare think they can make life or death judgements without knowing anything about medicine. Fair is only fair.
Jesus christ it just keeps getting worse and worse. I genuinely hope the sudden surge in information like this helps to raise class consciousness
Agree.
this video is over a year old by the way. nothing new
@@RedBreaddthis video might not be new but the attention it’s getting certainly is
@@RedBreadd Yes, but now it is being recommended to more people due to the sudden interest in UHC practices
$500 million for a CEO of an insurance company is purely insane. I have no words.
Absolute greed
I have a couple 🤔
I don’t think Buddy had words either… Bullets, on the other hand
Gordon Gecko greed is good..virtual fake money for fake people
@@NightRogue77 Healthcare Avenger is clearly a man of few words: "Deny", "Delay", "Depose".
As an ER nurse I remembered a few years ago watching our homeless mentally ill patients slowly die with each successive ER visit from a lack of insulin and yet my fellow nurses mentally could not process that it didn't need to be this way. They got mad when I explained to them how insanely and uniquely dystopian America is because they've been spoon fed since infancy that America is the best country on earth and can't fathom another system or way of life. Showing them how the rest of the developed world lives and they instantly become defensive and mad.
When you wait 6 hours in the ER, it's because the rich neighborhood NIMBYs keep calling 911 on the homeless mentally ill patient that we just discharged because of a lack of a social welfare net. Rich NIMBYs just keep calling 911 and cops just keep dumping them on us via ambulance and they get to be seen before you if you are not critically ill. When it gets freezing overnight, all the homeless come to the ER declaring that they want to harm themselves so they can be held for a psych eval so they have a warm bed to sleep in and food to eat. They know this and we know this. That's how sickening the system is.
That's awful and terrifying😱 Thank you for sharing your experience. I wish you well💜
thank you. can you please clarify your point for the people who will read this and see the take-away being homeless people cheating the healthcare system? it's not what i hear you saying, but i know how people co-opt and repurpose damning information.
I seem to be having the unfortunate experience of interacting with clinic and hospital staff often over the past few years. These are among the finest human beings on the planet. I can't help but comment when first interacting on the sorry state of our medical care system. Maybe these great people are simply being nice, but whenever I point out the obvious flaws in the system to them, agreement has been nearly universal.
So execute the homeless?
@@justcommenting4981landlords actually. Without landlord homeless people stop existing.
this aged well
more like a conspiracy?
@@Whyaretaxespayingforcorr-cc8srit was a year ago
@@Whyaretaxespayingforcorr-cc8sris this your first time hearing about this company and the insurance industry?
How did this age well?
@@xsx1113 *^?*
This video has aged impeccably, retaining its relevance and impact.
My doctor used to yell at United Health Care "WHO IS THE DOCTOR, I AM THE DOCTOR AND I MAKE THE DOCTOR DECISIONS, YOU ARE NOT A DOCTOR!!" Awesome;
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need.
Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
This sounds accurate. They love to deny care.
I work as office staff in a Psych office. The highlight of my day is yelling at health insurance companies when they deny prior auths. It's the simple joys
The call center people don't really deserved to be yelled at, they don't make the decisions.
Who is your doctor because I want that guy
Two years ago I got hit by a car while biking to work. Hit and run. The insurer would not pay for the ambulance to the hospital because it was not an “in network” ambulance. Since when does someone in that situation have a choice of ambulance services?
I got denied on the ambulance when it was required between two hospitals. It was UHC. The county fought for me luckily, it’s the only reason I didn’t have to pay it. They’re ghouls
Most hospitals don't have a very large ambulance fleet as they don't contribute much to the "bottom line." What private ambulance services do are to position their ambulances in strategic locations to intercept calls. My partner went to the hospital fairly regularly in the north Atlanta suburbs for a while. Not a single trip was in network. Ever.
Looks like the CEO of united did not have a choice either. Some things seem to come around as they go around.
This is typically the choice of the ambulance company and not the insurance company. Many ambulance companies believe they make more money by NOT contracting with insurance. Instead, they negotiate for the most money every single ride. Since people don't chose their ambulance (as you mention), there isn't a promotional incentive for ambulances to be "in network" (unlike a doctor). Most of the time the ambulance and insurance reach a deal, but the person is sort of collateral damage in the middle (unfortunately). There have been some recent related laws around this, but insurance wants to negotiate a set rate whiles ambulances want to make as much money as possible.
@@Sam-at-PDXtrying to extract money from dying people is almost worse than what insurance does
I was a teacher for 20 yrs. When I started we had 5 different insurers to choose from, now we only have a single company, BCBS. Sooo how responsive do you think that insurance company is to it's customers when the company knows we are stuck. The state of TX decides the companies available FOR ALL TEACHERS IN EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT. ITS INSANE. Our premiums go up yearly, yet we are told this is the only way to keep costs low. It's a SCAM!!
Anarcho capitalism, anything else is just communism. Welcome to America, the only developed country not to have government runned healthcare.
I work at a subsidiary leg of BCBS, but even as an underpaid low level employee I'm responsible for reviewing massive numbers of correspondences for the company at large (even high level legal and executive correspondences).
However bad your experiences were with BCBS, or your perceptions of them are, it's much, MUCH worse than just a scam. It's a legalized, legitimized protection racket fully aware that what's in the best interests of claimants is diametrically opposed to what's in the best interests of their own profits.
BCBS has provided excellent quality and accessibility over the past 35 or so years.
Biggest threat to me is Government trying to Socialize my Healthcare Dollars.
@@kevlar7669 Ooookay 🤦💅 I'm going to "say" this sloooowly. Monopolies... ARE... BAD‼️ SMMFH Competition counteracts monopolies. #HelloShermanAct 👋 It lowers costs and improves a product/service via innovation and customer demand. Got it?!?🤦#Econ101 👍 Teachers don't get a "vote" on which companies are available. Teachers can't leave their plans and have ZERO input on the plan features and benefits. Teachers, despite having ZERO control, still foot a LARGE part of the premium costs. Teachers are denied raises to our SALARY BECAUSE... INSURANCE PREMIUMS. 😡🤬 A half dozen humans in Austin,TX decide for HUNDREDS of thousands of humans their entire access to healthcare, and YOU , little trollie, jumped into my post to tell me some FK SH!T about "socialized healthcare" F.O.H!! Sheeesshh... Education has failed SO MANY. And I swear the rich love that fact. 🤦🤢
Vote blue or die too.
There are lots of things that should not be “FOR PROFIT”. ! Healthcare, Education, Incarceration, Post office, WAR! Even water sewer, gas and electric, all these services show what kind of a country we are.
ok but you NEED to start with "eurocentric culture must make dehumanizing everyone thats not born well off so illegal that no one does it again" or you will end up chasing your tail and wondering why things never get better.
Well the average Americans are so afraid of socialism, and here you are now…
This shooting is a reminder that hundreds of Americans die every week because of insurance company greed.
I've learned an untold number of horrific, inhumane things about UHC these past three days, and yet somehow, there's always more
It's been going for decades.
the more i learn, the bigger a hero the hoodie man becomes in my mind.
Mine isn’t even that bad, but they denied my birth control pill because of the “brand.” I asked them for a list of brands covered by my plan so I could ask my doctor to write me that script. UHC never got back to me. I spent over 24 hours on the phone with them about this (not 24hr straight lol over the course of days). I eventually told them it’s a legal requirement under the ACA that they HAVE to tell me what birth control they cover. Crickets. I eventually got a different job and different insurance. I paid out of pocket for my birth control until then. Spent $450 out of pocket to not get pregnant.
Every time I think RUclips is stupid. It will see me a video like this at a time like this.
The algorithm is awesome sometimes
Sometimes. SOMETIMES, they're real patriots.
I love when youtube sees me a video
RUclips algorithm is becoming self-aware.
RUclips: Who’s laughing now?
Just got recommend this by RUclips. Didn’t search it out. This is what RUclips fed me. That’s the algorithm for ya.
My father died because they refused to put him in intensive care for the 3-5 days necessary, so rather than get better he got worse and died.
My father and mother and Uncle passed away due to policies related to the seeking of profit.
Then why did you let that happen ? There adresses are known, if you want to visit them home. Or just organise a seminar about wealth managment and they will come to you.
Nasty people. Sorry to hear this. You are not the only one.
I am so sorry this happened to you. Know that at least the late CEOs family finally knows a fraction of your pain. For once, there is some justice.
Medical profession is 3rd leading cause of death in usa
You must be laughing now. Revenge is best served cold.
I knew a retired Army nurse (RN), who had seen a lot over her long career. Tough as nails. In her retirement, she took a job with UnitedHealthcare. She thought she would be using her extensive professional knowledge and expertise to review and approve requests for prior authorization. Instead, she was told that her job was to deny care all day long. No matter how much the care was needed, she was to deny, deny, deny. It broke her, doing that. She quit within 6 months. We used to wonder why no one went around shooting insurance executives. Our conclusion was that it was just a matter of time and would take someone with nothing left to lose.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need.
Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I’m a physician and during my residency, one of the patients on my panel was a young lady only a few years younger than me. She had sickle cell disease and was easily thrown into a crisis with exposure to cold, including air conditioning. Opioids tend to be par for the course with sicklers, but we were able to wean her down to fewer doses a day. Well, I did a refill for her one day and it was denied by United Healthcare Community Plan (Medicaid). I sat in my room one evening filling out the appeal forms answering stupid questions like “when is the medical condition expected to end?” And me answering, “Never. This has been since birth and will likely shorten her lifespan.” I would have to do some version of this appeal at least two other times during the course of my training and her being my patient. In fact, one of the times she was denied her medication, she ended up in the hospital for about 2 to 3 weeks… I wonder which cost more?😑😑 on top of that, the crisis left her at risk for potentially needing a shoulder replacement at some point in her life.
@@Nicole-vq9zmmy cousin died from sickle cell at 23, we were the same age. I’m now 35. This stuff affects real people
@@Nicole-vq9zm.
The metric system was created by the French revolution.
Universal healthcare was created by the socialist .
It doesn't matter who created it .Both are good policies .
United required pre-authorizations for band-aides! Meanwhile, the CEO makes $500 Million in salary, luxury benefits and perks.
So happy the CEO was denied coverage.
His claim to our sympathy is DENIED as well.
Mount sinai hospital actually wasn't in his network
@@Polit_Burromy sympathy is out of network
Life was denied as well.
In all fairness, he expired before he needed to use it.
I treated a a man who was discharged from the local hospital with an observable infection - pus oozing from his infected cranial wound - He was s/p craniotomy and radiation tx for brain cancer. He had no family that I knew off and lived in his pick-up truck which was parked by his friend's commercial property so he at least had bathroom privileges if he could walk there. It was winter-time and a particularly chilly day when I found him in his camper - febrile, cold, lethargic and unable to walk without assistance. I called the rest of the homecare team for a stat visit and we sent him right back to the ER. He was discharged or dumped because he only had Medicare A. I don't recall if he had Medicaid. He deserved better
That's so crazy ... Being from Europe, this stuff seems unimaginable
I have a lot of respect for you. You saw a desperate situation and you stepped up. The more I read these stories the more I am appalled. It's difficult to believe that we have spiraled down so low. For more than one reason, I am NOT proud to be an American.
United Healthcare needs to be hit with antitrust lawsuits.
I wish more people understood how many of our problems are a result of monopolization.
@@farrahupson And Capitalism in general!
@@ComradeRagdoll Corporatocracy
@@rod4309 Corporatocracy is part of Capitalism due to Corporate Influence and the Ruling Class Owning and Controlling
the Government
Forget anti-trust, get them under the RICO Act.
Who’s here after the hit of the UHC CEO?! 2024
Cityboi... CITYBOI... CITYBOIIIIIIIIII 😅🤣😂
Just saw this video pop up into my feed
Lol
Did ur friend kill em ?
What's the guy white?
12:46 , "So what can be done about this?"
A year later, someone finally found the answer. Neat.
The answer is blowin' in the wind -- Bob Dylan
I wouldn't be surprised if that someone watched this video.
The insurance company's response is going to be "how can we get better security for our C-levels" instead of "how can we fix the root issue making people unhappy".
I hope they learn their lesson, but I doubt it
I don't think that the killer of Brian Thompson the CEO of united Healthcare skipped this video at all. I think he watched this video and then took action. A very bad decision very sad for the family of Brian.
Sadly if that’s the route to take I think it needs to be taken many more times before it leads to a significant change. Right now it’s just a plot that’s way off the line
Allegedly, 🥴 UHC cost my father-in-law his life! Refused vital treatment that his doctor ordered and then they (UHC) required him to do a stress test without oxygen, while on oxygen! 😳 Within three weeks, he was dead. They need to trust that the doctors know what they’re doing, they literally can’t do their jobs without it. Evil people!
All sorts of people feared the government becoming the complete controller of their lives. While they threw tantrums for decades they let businesses become the government. Turns out that this is a much worse outcome.
A government at least on paper has to be accountable to the people it is elected by, assuming we are talking about a republic (even better would be an openly socialist republic). A company is accountable only to its shareholders and making them big profits. People that stand for no intervention in the markets and fear monger about government intervention are not for freedom the way most people understand freedom. They are for their own freedom to leech off of working people. They are for their freedom to enslave you. Their freedom and working people's freedom are mutually exclusive.
Exactly correct 👌
Thank you!
@@russellpeacock what do you mean government control? If I am not mistaken in the past decades no North American or European country implemented any important nationalisation efforts. The opposite was true actually. Struggling countries were pushed to privatize even more under threats from the IMF.
@@russellpeacock Where do you live, Vietnam? Here in the west, the opposite is objectively the case.
Here for no reason at all... 😂😂😂
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why this video was recommended.
@@BexCatherder the ceo of this company was just offloaded from this planet
I’m here for the Bang Bang Bang meet-up?
🤣🤣🤣
yeah, I just followed the crumb trail myself and whaddya know?
My mom has cancer and her wellness exam was denied because the coder itemized the procedures and coded each of them individually instead of just coding “wellness exam”. They have to code a very specific code for the procedure to be covered. The billing department doesn't give a shit for their clerical error and send me the bill.
I'm my mother's medical advocate and eventually get it fixed. But I am a college student and can do my research to fight, imagine someone with less privilege or has no one to help. The insurance company makes it extra- complicated and easier for mistakes to happen, and mistakes happen often. Now good luck figure out or suck up the cost
Oh yea that’s part of the game they play. They have divisions devoted to compliance and they make it complicated on purpose. They want people to be frustrated and give up.
Yes this is the latest. Your annual exam that should be free is coded so they charge the person if that person mentions ANY mild issue. DISGUSTING
I worked with someone at a temp job. Ran into him at the unemployment office. He had just gone through Insurance Code Training (not yet with their own campuses, student athletes deliberately given no time for studies, taxpayer backed student loans (where a private bank Loans the federal money but keeps the interest for themselves) for always increasing tuition costs). Yup, the Actor did it to California before doing it to us.
Apparently, the training might get my ex-coworker a job with either an insurance company or with a doctor/hospital on the claims side. The Codes change regularly (so, found your healthcare coding university quickly to "get in on the ground floor" of students who graduate but needing to always learn the newest Codes).
I don't know of a single doctor who wanted to go through such grueling education and training just "to get rich", there are easier ways. Doctors have to hire someone like my ex-coworker if they ever hope to get paid and his salary adds to the cost of course. "Thank God" one political party in Washington keeps us from expanding Medicare to everyone and permits private plans to also use the word "Medicare". By the end of January, 2025 they will be in charge of both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court.... "Freedom", courtesy of people who voted based on 30 second commercials.
@@arcanondrum6543the bloody fools who voted for trump will soon see their mistake
Mistakes my A$$!
if only somebody would do something drastic about this
Who got recommended this after the “big event”?
Healthcare Avenger summoned me here.
The big sleep?
Brosassination
This channel is very good investigating these topics, I suggest subscribing, I did and saw this a year ago.
@@Polit_BurroOnly in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need.
Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
The facts that this dude in his room can make an incredibly articulated well researched piece of journalism and all the major news networks can’t says a lot about the corruption inside the news networks ... Huge respect! 🙏🏽🙏🏾🤷
I have no respect for so-called legacy media any more. They are tools of the corporate oligarchy and only exist to serve their interests.
The caption for the video took me aback:
"Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly..."
I have a feeling somebody saw this video and left a message in his backpack in Central Park.
What makes you think some RUclipsr can be trusted? This channel has an agenda. That makes them biased. Accept the fact that you are not an expert on insurance or healthcare, so you can’t know if they’re even telling the truth or the key facts that are necessary to make a fully informed opinion. 99% of people never do their own research so they take some total stranger’s assertions as fact. Being able to vote or having health insurance yourself doesn’t make you an industry or health policy expert anymore than being able to flip a light switch makes you a master electrician.
Well at least now we know why the hitman's backpack had monopoly money in it 🤷
You should watch all their videos on this channel. It’s really eye opening. 😮
Took people so long for all of us to collectively agree on the problem. Now we need to keep the pressure for solutions
The concerning thing is that we have always agreed on this problem, but people still don’t vote to fix it. They vote for people who undermine and try to profit off the system… like Trump… it’s so sad that people can’t see it.
@@Faroesxso who should we have voted for specifically to fix this?
@ maybe someone who had a plan to reform the system and make it help everyone, like, I don’t know, Kamala, perhaps?
@@ZackHamlin1 Kamala Harris. The person who was openly trying to help the healthcare system.
@@Faroesx 😂THAT was a good one, i mean, we did so much about the last 4 years!
Ok I don’t feel sorry for that guy anymore. How is this even legal?
corruption. organise and strike my friend
Doctor here. We aren't the ones getting rich off our current medical system. Physicians account for only 11% of medical bills. Administrators and insurance are 25% of that bill.
Truth. The admins are the real rot in the system.
The doctors are blamed for the greed of the middle men, trust your doctors please they only want to help
I mean, doctors are still paid very well, but administrators and insurers are getting a much bigger piece of the pie, for no good reason.
i can assure people that all doctors want is the betterment of their patients. meanwhile administrating leeches with MBAs want nothing more than to get rich
Just like colleges and universities and the government
Now that I'm done screaming... I work in a pharmacy. I'm a technician, I see this every day. Here's a fun example of how f🤬🤬🤬ed up this s🤬🤬t is; methadone is used to treat opioid withdrawal and to help people with opioid dependency (I won't even go into that one, you all know about it)...but if you write a scrip to treat the addiction insurance will deny it 90% of the time...so...you have to write it to treat pain. Sildenifil is used to treat pulmonary hypertension, but if the scrip is written to treat PHT the insurance will mandate Revatio which, if they pay (because they can mandate a brand name and still deny paying it) it will cost a patient at least $300, but if you write it for ED they will pay for it with maybe a $5 oop cost. I used to handle synagis for premature infants, you know so they can breathe (silly thing for babies to want, right?) and I would have to tell parents of twins that one twin would be covered and the other would be denied and and need a PA (prior authorization...)...all the time. So, let me translate that last one for you; one baby gets to live now the other...has to wait for an adjudicator to decide if it's profitable for it to live. Even though NOTHING BUT THE NAMES WERE DIFFERENT! FUCK OUR FOR PROFIT ADDICTION SYSTEM!!
That's insane that they'll be like "Oh PHT is life-threatening, but nah we'll deny it." Then when someone can't get it up they're like "Time to do my job." And then with the sick baby thing, that's just horrid that these companies are doing that.
Well said
That is horrifying. Please copy this and send it to all of your politicians.
Thank you for your service, BTW. I am sorry for your suffering too.
@@eric2500 no, the real horrifying part is how the corporation treats the pharmacy. They recently terminated me for "insubordination" after I reported them to the Board and OSHA for not following their own policies on hazardous drugs, let alone regulated rules for them.
Capitalism is a shell game.
@@maxfieldstanton4541 What happened? I work in a pharmacy, too
lol I work for Optum in the Prior Authorization Department. Someone was told in my specific department that they were told that we don’t make money for the company and I told them no our job is to deny medications. We save the company money by creating obstacles and making it hard to get medication that are more expensive. Fun fact our insurance is terrible and we don’t have to outsource the healthcare. This video is so spot on and the most radicalizing force for me is working for Optum
So you get paid to try and help kill people by denying them medication? Wow lmao
I would start looking for another job. 😉
As someone who reviews denials myself (as a third party) there seems to be a ridiculous amount of plan terminations that coincide with the first diagnosis for serious illness. Someone has their insuance for years, gets a complex (and expensive) diagnosis and suddenly they are retroterminated to the day or month before that diagnosis appeared. You seein this pattern too?
@@stevemora7845 well considering the average wage where I live is less than what I get paid it can’t be helped. Housing has killed most of my job search plans as the median wage is 37k and my rent is $1600 a month. I could look for different housing but my rent is below the average for the number of bedrooms I have.
@@theprecipiceofreason I am not seeing that but I am not in the healthcare PAs only the medication PAs. I have heard of this happening though even with people that work at Optum. Then again that would be anecdotal and would not be willing to say firmly it is a trend.
I think America is fed up with United Health Care's racket.
And the United Greed racket (that most companies are part of) destroying the economy....
Presidential pardon for Luigi. American hero
I agree
You think a millionaire will pardon the guy that killed a millionaire?
No need he didnt do it. All a set up
@@superduperdrew12345Imbeciles who think Trump is anti-establishment would even consider pardoning this guys.. He IS the establishment. And its not like dems are much better. We still haven't pardoned heroes like Edward Snowden.
I was going to say nah, but if hunter biden gets one, why not?
UNH denied my claim after my son got hit by a semitruck. The doctors did a CT Scan, xrays, and labwork in the ER. He had to stay there for 3 days. It got denied because they said the doctor's treatment was EXCESSIVE. My son was bleeding and knocked unconscious. I don't get how them checking everything was Excessive but i paid the bill out my pocket and im a single mom so it wasn't easy.
You're a single Mom and a strong one too.
A hero got us justice yesterday
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. You are clearly an excellent mother.
I'm so sorry! I hope he's ok now. Bless your family.
UNH is a scam in everything but name.
I work for an insurance company and a pharmacy so I see the full spectrum. #1 everything in this video is accurate and I agree with. The only thing to add is the rising medication costs. Insurance companies won’t cover all medications because the drug industry is just as evil and greedy. So it’s the whole damn system that’s screwed. From insurers to drug makers to hospitals. Everyone is robbing everyone at the expense of healthcare professionals, small businesses, and the public
Also in the insurance industry here, and I second this comment. I wouldn't even say the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals are gouging each other, more that they have a symbiotic relationship where drugs being more expensive is an excuse to raise premiums, and higher premiums make a bigger pool of money to get away with charging more for drugs. It's in both industry's best financial interests to continually raise all prices indefinitely.
@@reverendblind oh yea for sure they have deals behind closed doors. But when they’re in front of congress they like to blame each other on rising costs. They know the public wont know better. They make the health system complicated so that educating the public becomes impossible. No public outcry no regulation.
As someone in pharma (biopharma specifically) it's so, so much worse. I don't work in R&D, so by the time I hear about a potential product launch, it's basically a done deal and just needs additional testing. I don't hear about the numerous tried-it-and-it-didn't-work projects, I hear about the ones where the company has gotten to picking-baby-names-and-decorating-the-nursery stage. And so many of those get patented/copyrights, and then never released to markets for really asinine reasons: they might have a single competitor that got to market first - sometimes by months - and the entire launch is scrapped because they don't want to compete, a new law went into place that won't let the company charge a 1000% markup, it affects a part of the world or population that was determined to not have enough money to bother serving.
Mind, the heavy lifting for these are done. They've been researched. They're damn near ready to go and just need to get through approval processes in the markets they're intended for. These were *massive* investments, and rather than make slightly less money than they wanted, these medicines are withheld entirely. There were six of them back in 2022 that I knew of from my company alone. The company is shifting from R&D to just buying up smaller companies that have portfolios they like. First time in a really long time any major company got hit with an anti-monopoly sting, and you would not *believe* the whinging about it.
PHysician here--the middle people selling to pharmacies have had profits increase thousands of percentage points. Insurers and physicians are in an adverse relationship with some insurers hiring multi billion dollar vaccuum cleaner auditors who harass the heck out of physicians offices escalating costs.
Many residents owe 1/2 million dollars in student loans and have trouble with the $8000/month payment for student loans.
@@elaine8477 Careful there, they may stop buying you lunch.
Get rid of the Industry!
Universal Healthcare for All!
As a solo practicing physician, I am so glad you are pointing out the disgusting monopoly of medical insurance companies in healthcare. I am so tired of their dictatorship that I am quitting it now . If I was not getting social security, I wouldn’t have enough money from my practice to pay for living expenses.
This video is strangely relevant today.
And every day in the cruel United States of Greed.
Relevant, but there is nothing strange about it
Things to decommodify; healthcare, housing, food, water, animals.
Education too
And education! (Don't forget public transit, social services, the prison system etc.)
How about regular banking...
And prison.
You're missing education, prison/detention system, public transportation systems, and social services
The RUclips algorithm couldn’t have recommended this at a better time
It's apparently been a year since you made this, and it's now more relevant than ever !! I hope it goes viral.
Yes, it’s very very viral I’m sure they have mixed feelings about the “virality“ 😂
Instead of a CEO fixing the issues, they are taking their names off the companies leadership website
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need.
Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I saw someone commented he has seen them getting back to work as usual, the colleagues of the CEO walk past his dead body like nothing. Even his colleagues couldn't care less about the situation.
@@minhducnguyen9276 didn’t they continue the meeting he was meant to attend that he died right in front of?
@@minhducnguyen9276 when I heard the news that they "stopped the conference early" instead of canceling it all together, I was like, holy shit. That is soooo dark. "Walking past" like you said. Chilling
@@PotatoChipChippity It's like pigeons casually eating next to the corpse of another dead pigeon.
Remember lots of people work in these insurance companies, they get promoted for denying claims.
Does your neighbor deny claims on Monday after attending church with you on Sunday?
Why is it that so much greed and hatred comes from the God fearing. I’ve always found it handy to ask “would Jesus do that?”
@@dersegavas67941) they weren't singling out christians but just pointing out how they can lead a regular life while doing horrible things at their workplace.
2) would Jesus do that is not a gotcha bro, ppl aren't comparing themselves to God lol "what would the perfect, all knowing being do in this case?" we're all sinners señor(this includes u)
@@dersegavas6794 Because they're not real in their devotion. A lot of us who attend Church have a name for people who act that way. "Christian in name only." We don't' claim them.
I agree if you work for these companies quit and find any other job. Work two jobs if you have too. You are either with them or with the people. Choose
@GameClipsX these soulless people who deny claims for profit will be replaced by soulless AI.
Nurse here… I would never EVER take a job as a “denial nurse”!!!!! It goes against the grain!!!!!!
May these executives suffer every disease that they deny coverage for.
If only the cosmos worked that way.
I think "western" religion was invented to protect the wealthy & powerful because, instead of holding them accountable now, they will be punished for their sins in the afterlife.
How convenient for the wealthy & powerful.
The Bible actually says worse will happen to them.
@@modenam9046 Which means absolutely nothing.
May the executives and shareholders simply stay on the HOLD they created for days beyond number.
@@modenam9046No. They must suffer in real life.
The biggest problem: an insurance company that makes money for stock holders by not providing patients health care & not paying physicians.😢
money that Insurance companies don't pay out they get to keep.
Which is why the rest of the 1st world strictly classifies health care as public commons. Corporatizing it is a conflict of interest in itself.
@@dominicfucinari1942 Hey, according to the SCOTUS , corporations are people ,too.
In VA BCBS was private and nonprofit until 1996 I think, if my memory serves me right.. So many things changed after that in the way things were perceived..
Then why do they have customers?
My father didn't have insurance and was dealing with bad back problems. I got him signed up for Medicaid through the government and he finally went to get a checkup. Stage 4 lung cancer, and it was only a couple months until he died. My dad didn't really understand Medicaid and I couldn't really talk to him about it because the cancer had spread to his brain. He was in the hospital and he had called my mom and asked her how much some of the things we're going to cost and she tried to explain it's free it'll be fine, but he was worried about it. And it's horrifying to think that at the end of his life, when he was trapped in the hospital during covid protocol, he was worried about putting us in debt. Nobody should have to feel that way during a medical emergency they can't control. I never in my life wished more that we lived somewhere that had a better health care system. I got to see him three times before he passed away, he spent most of that time in the hospital, and he didn't have the peace of mind that he was entitled to in almost every other country.
I'm so sorry to hear about what your dear father went through with cancer and his back. Our messed up health care system. I am also sorry for your loss. I can so relate. I have stage 3 endometrial cancer and what my doctor has been through to get me treatment. At this moment, I have no treatment as UHC is denying me what I need. When I heard about their "ethos" and how at the heart they put the patient first, it makes me nauseous. These companies could care less.
@@beverlyho9559 thank you for the condolences and I'm so sorry to hear about your plight. I wish we could change the healthcare system faster so we could save more people. UHC seems horrible. I don't have much useful advice but if you are able, try to apply for the Medicaid in your state, you can have both insurances in some cases. They may cover something UHC will not. While I hate our system, Medicaid did at least step up and pay for my dad. I truly hope you are able to get the care you need and deserve. I'll be thinking of you. :)
I am so sad to hear about your dad, God bless you for what your family has had to endure.
I’m so sorry for what you and your father had to go through. We desperately need healthcare reform to prevent anyone and everyone from going through that. Please make sure you, your family and friends vote! Every tiny step forward helps, and every vote matters! There is power in numbers!
Sorry for your father but rejoice. Justice was served.
Luigi knew the writing was on the wall. Published August 2023! How precinct.
As an MD I can attest to this. I no longer accept HMOs because it costs more to attempt to collect anything from them than I can collect.
I now charge $35 cash instead and am far better off.
Medicare may not pay well, but it pays.
I am trying to change to an all cash $35 office visit system, but Medicare patients are reluctant because they pay their premiums and expect their insurance to pay their bills.
HMO or PPO patients usually have a copay higher than the $35 I charge them, so they are happy.
Our system is a mess when a doctor earns less than a manicurist.
Denying people care because you don't like their insurance doesn't fit in with "first do no harm," does it?
@@do9138 you have a twisted understanding of the Hippocratic Oath.
When we say that the aim of our practice should be to do no harm, what we actually mean is that the benefits of the intervention should significantly outweigh the burdens, and that our interventions should aim at a patient's wholeness or health.
I believe healthcare is a human right. I don’t believe I am a slave who should not be compensated. If a patient has insurance that I feel is more trouble than it’s worth, there are other doctors who will accept that insurance.
Unless you have personally dealt with the provider side of the millions of different policies out there, you can’t reasonably offer an informed opinion, now can you?
You can, however, half read a comment and have a knee jerk reaction that is neither accurate, nor helpful.
@@docinparadise Reply to the right person, Dr. Numbnuts. I didn't say anything about the Hypocrytic oath. But you're right. That's why we need nationalized medicine so YOUR profits don't prevent people from staying alive. An oath shouldn't be necessary to demonstrate EMPATHY. Doctors with no empathy shouldn't be practicing medicine. Go sell stocks.
@@docinparadise In other words, "First do no harm unless you can't profit enough from helping." Medicine is ALL about money. And before you ask if I would work for free, I almost do. I teach.
$35 is a bargain! You have sacrificed considerably to create an efficient system. And because you aren't an ER doc, you aren't legally obligated to see patients but tbh I didn't see anything that indicated you were reluctant to do so. In fact, only charging $35 is quite the opposite. And couldn't your medicare patients apply the office visit to their out of pocket maximum?
As an RN I consider an oath to the patient the very backbone of care. I do not work as a nurse currently because I can't and won't ethically, morally or professionally be part of a system that does not allow for patient centered care.
Thank you to all who puts this video together and out into the world!
This is such an important comment, because it points towards the reality that turning the healthcare system into a for-profit system means that healthcare professionals who take their responsibility towards their patients seriously will inevitably leave the profession in large numbers as behaving ethically is made impossible. This ends up leading to the healthcare system in the USA being filled with individuals that don't really care about morals or providing good care, as the individuals who ARE decent at what they do and who DO feel called to do that work are either burned out or pushed out. (No judgement, necessarily, on individual people who go into Healthcare because they need money btw. It is what it is, I'm just pointing out the larger pattern.)
Thanks for adding your real life experience
Same here. Nurse 10 years and NP for 20. During/After Covid, things got so much worse. I worked for major company who by the way was getting the Covid vaccines for free from the government by exclusive contracts. They got reimbursed by the insurance companies on vaccines they got for free paid by our taxes. A lot of the insurances denied payment and the patients were stuck with the bill?? Not only that, but because they came in multiple doses vials that were only good for 6 hours, they ended up wasting about 70% of the doses. Wouldn’t allow us to give them to anyone for free. When everyone else was losing money and going out of business, these fuckers made record profits.
They could not care less about the health of our citizens. Only what they could profit from.
See, these people never took that oath, yet they are the ones making these decisions. I respect you
"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."
Mission accomplished!
This was hilarious. 🏆
"We came,
We saw,
He Died!"
--- Healthcare Avenger, 2024
The battle was victorious but the war is still not won
Who’s next
My father works for United Healthcare, and no matter how much evidence like this I present to him, he remains convinced that private insurance is somehow more efficient and effective than universal healthcare. It's unfortunate.
America is full of sheep :/
He'll maybe realize it when he needs hospital care
Your average right winger in the anglosphere: "social health care means death panels"
Meanwhile insurance companies automatically drop a significant number of claims and operate their own panels deciding who lives and who dies.
Talk to some vets. Nothing is perfect, but all the vets I've ever talked to rave about their VA healthcare. They know it can be improved in some ways, mainly in wait times for appointments, but by the same token, in most places it's pretty great care. The older vets I've talked to are happy that they have this as an option over standard Medicare.
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 Keep the Goverment hands off the VA!
By the way UHC is 5X the size of the next biggest "health care corporation
It’s an absolute tragedy that a hero is now behind bars!
After the shooting, the rest of the UHC board walked right past the scene to start their meeting Brian was also supposed to attend. On time.
They probably would’ve stepped right on the CEO to get to it if he wasn’t in the hospital already
100%. Another reason the comments from the boot lickers are wild.
Free Luigi!
Who is here after the news of CEO shooting?
Me, me, me !!! RUclips dug this up, and presented it to me, after watching a video on the reaction to the shooting.
Great journalism good research and highly detailed 🎉🎉🎉
People are happy he got clapped, I can't blame them.
Hiya
Evil CEO and company
It should be illegal for ANY insurance companies to be publicly held/traded.
I saw McKinsey mentioned in the article you showed briefly, have you done a deep dive into them? I would really like to understand more about how McKinsey drives so much that is wrong with our country.
They are the lobbying arm of the ruling elite. A rich man's union if you will. That's pretty much it.
They're shady AF. Their reports have such good insights because they also provide legal & business strategy services to these kinds of parasitic corporations.
Insurance should only be a non-profit, that's all insurance. Healthcare should be non-profit.
You are correct, McKinsey is a company brought in as a consultant, paid to create a study that agrees with whatever predetermined conclusion the customer wants McKinsey to arrive at.
McKinsey cares nothing for the health of anyone other than their directors; they do not care whether any of us live or die.
There isn't even a way for McKinsey to hear the healthcare problems they have created.
That is by design; profit is the motive, not healthcare!
Clearly a conflict of interest to pay shareholders.. Who is the customer.. ?
Wonderful time for the algorithm to push this vid forward in dec 2024
A few years ago I was in a car accident that changed my life forever. I have chronic back pain and my experience was so negative in the healthcare market I had to stop entirely and do what I could on my own because the constant anxiety associated with healthcare left me worse than I was before. If some tool surgeon convinced me to get a surgery who knows where I'd be today. Maybe right next to Luigi.
This.
Aged.
Well.
Only in usa 🦅🇺🇸 = Doctors must become Lawyer so that their patients can get the treatment they need.
Meanwhile, in other countries, socialist healthcare (Majority of world) / private healthcare with a fuck tone of regulation like case of Switzerland. You just come, check and get the medicine in less than 1 hour.😂😂
I got hurt at work around 2018 and was denied, asked to quit, had unemployment fought, got told maybe I was “born with” bulging disks in my upper spine, and they “lost” my X-rays at U.S. Healthworks after somehow managing to get them to the doctor- I asked for copies for myself. Aetna laughed at me over the phone. I was in the worst pain of my life and to this day my back hurts- it’s not the same. Nor have I had a real job. Not one job since.
They offered me 6.5k after breaking me down. I had to wait 2 hours one day at the doctors just to come out to the entire office scattering away from a computer when they saw me. (They forgot I was there.) even the doctor that saw me had been hovering over the staff all staring at the screen. 🚩
That sucks
Reminder that Jury Nullification exists, and every single American needs to know what that term means.
But also, for jury nullification to work, the jury can't mention it or give any clues that they know what it is. If they do, during or after, that's a cause to throw out the jury or declare a mistrial and do it all again with new people.
Then collapse the system itself through endless mistrials. This needs to be discussed @@starstuffatsea
Remember, Luigi had a green backpack in his smile pic, the shooter had a white one
I’m not American. Can you please enlighten me?
@@chriszhang1660 Jury nullification is a concept that a jury can choose to determine the defendant is factually guilty of breaking a law(s) but due to some other reason or principle (eg: they jury finds the law broken is unfair or unconstitutional) the entire jury reaches a not guilty verdict on the charge(s). My understanding is that it is not accepted as a legal concept and prior jury nullification verdicts have been overturned.
Wow even the RUclips algorithm is not a fan of our healthcare system. Holy moly the timing of this recommendation to pop up
People are going break out their pitch forks as the obscene greed continues to infect and metastasize on every aspect of life.
And the pitchforks have 30 round magazines and a maximum range of 2.5 miles....
Pitchforks and torches? 🔱🔥
I work for one of these monster health insurance companies and I see cancer patients denied claims all the time citing "not medically necessary" for radiation treatment. $100,000 bills for 8 months of treatments denied so the doctor/facility is just screwed. It's sickening. These companies are purposefully as inefficient as possible too cause it helps their bottom line if nobody can figure out how to appeal and if all the rules for every plan are as different and indecipherable as possible. And the appeal timeframe for the plans I see is only 6 months from the date of service and our timeframe for responding is literally 2 months and we go over that all the time, sometimes just never responding.
What a disgusting practice. And it’s now illegal to not have health insurance.. at this point why should anyone continue living when they suffer this much? I’d rather end it myself in a painless quick way… I’m sad to learn that there are many near me that have already done this but this world is disgusting. It makes sense why people are doing it.
How can someone learn the best way(s) to appeal? What are good resources that help people navigate this mess? Thanks for your perspective.
The doctor? I live in Vegas. There are no private practices. It's all healthcare corporations, and they hike prices to increase their profits. I don't cry when they aren't paid.
@@sergegainsbourgii1852 Don't bother. The consumer never wins those appeals.
@@sergegainsbourgii1852
As a former biller; appealing = being annoying to the insurance company… polite, but annoying.
Each carrier usually starts with 3 basic plans: commercial (through your job) Medicare advantage plan (Medicare ran by a private company ‘promising’ more coverage at ‘a little’ extra premium) and Medicaid Managed plan.
Commercial is then broken up by HMO, High Deductible, and a PPO (to the subscriber: PPO is a combo of HMO and HD.)
Medicaid Plan are broken down too based on income and family size: Medicaid Managed Care, Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus.
Medicare can go wild depending on what add ons one picks. Medicare does not offer dental and vision. A private Medicare Advantage plan does, for a price.
All in all, each plan has its own contract, with no consistencies, and the private company can change the rules month over month. So, knowing exactly what to do to appeal is impossible to know.
Be annoying, but polite, and hope you speak to someone with empathy to tell you exactly what to do - personal experience, the workers for the insurance company are sickened by the system too.
This comment section delivered. Unlike UHC. special shoutout to RUclips for recommending this video in a time like this.
We have so much problems with these denials in our office. It’s a struggle everyday.
aged like fine wine
Aged so good it outlived the ceo
UHC and his corrupt CEO has destroyed many lives and families. Condolences: DENIED
Reminder I’m not in USA but a registered nurse in AUSTRALIA and United Kingdom. I have two registrations that I’ve worked hard to get. We as healthcare providers hate to have finical terms to our care giving. I’d hate to be a nurse in the USA. I couldn’t imagine turning away the sick over cost. It’s heart breaking. The world is with you USA on this. Be strong. Xxx love from an Irish nurse
Yummy.
That's no true. In the United States no sick person can be refused treatment when going to a hospital emergency room.
@@bozomonster there are still people paying bills from getting injured at 9/11. 😒 they can't deny, but also do not care to make someone homeless due to healthcare ridiculous bills
@@bozomonsterNOT THAT SIMPLE. Why do some not get admitted? Its fixed to favor those who are well off
"So what can be done about this?"
I mean... I can think of one thing.
50 million claims denied = 50 million suspects
Plus, their family members. Nobody saw anything.
And also their investors. The whole writing on the casings thing can be a red herring from an insider. Never so many million people had a motive. 😬
My family is living this right now. With united. Thank you for your deep dive and reporting on this.
I've been fairly fortunate, but I do have a story from last month. My doctor wanted me to get an MRI on my cervical spine to see if we can figure out what's causing my shoulder pain. At the same time, he also sent me for physical therapy. This was late June, and I had to reschedule my MRI due to not having authorization yet. On July 17, I received a letter from United that was dated July 10. It told me that I had until July 15 (2 days ago) to provide a bunch of information to justify the MRI. Now, I think all of that information should have been part of the original order from my doctor's office anyway, but that's a different story. A week or so later, I received another letter from United, dated July 18, denying coverage for an MRI because they deemed it "not medically necessary". Since then, my doctor's office resubmitted, and the MRI is now covered. My personal take on the issue is that my DOCTOR is the one who should determine whether something is medically necessary for me, not the insurance company. The insurance company's only job should be paying for it.
I had an orthopedic specialist visit for a similar issue with shoulder pain and needed an MRI. The scheduling associate said that it was good that I had real medicare instead of a medicare advantage HMO. I had not really thought about why she mentioned that until I read your comment comment.
I have United and I cost $40,000 a year in medical bills. Never deemed medically not necessary.
isn't it insane how the doctors make people with obvious injuries suffer in pain through all these tests and fake therapies before finally prescribing opioids (when it's almost too late, or when it IS too late)? Maybe your shoulder would get better in 6 months with opioids because you start working through the pain again and healing..... but "opioids bad! no pain relief for you!" because little Timmy snuck into Grandma's medicine cabinet, took her oxycodone, went into withdrawal when he ran out and then went to the street to replace with heroin.... f*ck little Timmy, that degenerate piece of sh*t.... the rest of us chronic pain patients aren't over here getting addicted to our medication..... Besides, NOBODY overdoses on hydrocodone or oxycodone. That's baby stuff. It's fentanyl to be worried about.
A year ahead of the game with this video. Thanks for the “random” recommendation YT
I will vote for anyone that is for socialized healthcare and isn’t afraid to say it. Every time someone brings up how much it would cost for a government run program they somehow never compare that cost to how much Americans are paying companies like UnitedHealthcare. I am certain number is far higher than what we’d pay if it was a right.
Too bad both US parties will never do that
Exactly!!! You get it. Who in their right mind would *prefer* to pay hundreds of dollars a month just to have to deal with co-pays, deductibles and at the end of the day may not even be covered for it, vs just having to pay more taxes? I think the lobbying is one of the biggest problems too. Literal political bribery, extremely undemocratic. I feel like if that was cut down on there would be so much less corruption, and I feel like we'd already have better and more accessible healthcare.
@@candycane3739 Agreed. Lobbying is just a euphemism for bribery.
Socialized healthcare is NOT government run health care. It's government PAID FOR health care.
Yea , the military gets un questioned $$$ and we're NOT @ WAR !
Medical providers frac the assets of all working-class Americans. Health care is an oxymoron. The care for money is the motivation.
We are the power cells 🔋
Eliminate the third party parasite insurers and you'll be spending a lot less on healthcare
healthcare exists so that money can be made.
In America, its Wealthcare and its not meant to make anyone other than the rich healthy.....healthily rich.
Money Care program.
United healthcare told me after I made my first payment that I couldn't use it to pay for Type 2 Diabetes medication or treatment. Dropped it immediately.
The robber barons I work for switched our plan from Cigna to United effective 1/1/25. It’s not like we didn’t already know they didn’t value us, but this is too much.
well now....... strange that this was recommended to me
The algorithm knows. 😉
@@JasonLarsen-t3vjust like all the tech bros going to the alter of Trump before the election, their algorithms know everything, and corrupt government facilitates all of the financial and physical abuse, by design.