Testimony of a former UnitedHealthcare employee who says she worked under CEO Brian Thompson

[ThisIsMe]

I think most don't.

You think most sane people think the murder was justified because he was working for a company that denied claims?


Is that really the leftist view?

 

[Crepitus]

because he was working for a company that denied claims?

He was setting the policy of denying claims.

Get it right.

 

[cnm]

I don't see "average time on waitlist" or "percent deaths while on waitlist" as one of the criteria.

So what? That's because you're a slack jawed yokel with no reading comprehension.

CEOWorld Magazine's Health Care Index "is a statistical analysis of the overall quality of the health care system, including health care infrastructure; health care professionals (doctors, nursing staff, and other health workers) competencies; cost (USD p.a.per capita); quality medicine availability, and government readiness."​

 

[Seymour Flops]

So what? That's because you're a slack jawed yokel with no reading comprehension.

CEOWorld Magazine's Health Care Index "is a statistical analysis of the overall quality of the health care system, including health care infrastructure; health care professionals (doctors, nursing staff, and other health workers) competencies; cost (USD p.a.per capita); quality medicine availability, and government readiness."​

Damn!'

Thanks for wasting my time. I read that three times nad still did not see "time on wait list," or "deaths while on wait lists."

 

[Greenbeard]

Impressive numbers - if they came from anyone but the lawyer in charge of Health and Human Services.

Also, those numbers appear to be about government expendatures, leaving out exendatures by people who had to buy these new Obamacare regulated policies.

It's all national health expenditures. Public, private, insurance, out-of-pocket, it's every dollar spent on the American health care system by anyone. In other words, the cost of the health care system.

But you're right, they're incredibly impressive numbers.

 

[Fang]

Krista Monroe spills the beans on business practices of UnitedHealthcare



As you can see, it's not good.

Not surprising. This is how all insurance companies work, not just UnitedHealthcare. I've been in many arguments with insurance companies and they always end up paying up. She's right, they want to make it hard on you so you just give up. But no, it's not good. Insurance of any type is designed to screw the insured otherwise they can't make money.

 

[Seymour Flops]

It's all national health expenditures. Public, private, insurance, out-of-pocket, it's every dollar spent on the American health care system by anyone. In other words, the cost of the health care system.

But your chart was about government expenses only.

The middle class is not saving money, the middle class is being forced to get to spend money to support other people. That is not progress.

But you're right, they're incredibly impressive numbers.

Except that it is only government expenses and doesn’t take into account the higher premiums and higher deductibles and co-pays that middle-class people have had to pay under Obama care.

So it is not so impressive at all. Not to mention from an untrustworthy source.

 

[Greenbeard]

But your chart was about government expenses only.

I assume you're talking about the graphic about the bottom about how future federal health spending obligations have been plummeting, saving the taxpayers trillions of dollars. Sure. That was meant to illustrate one example of the impact of the broader point made in the table above it: health care cost growth relative to the rest of the economy essentially stopped in 2010. That's all health spending, public and private.

Central to OACT’s long-term projections is a concept known as excess cost growth, which reflects whether health costs are growing or are likely to grow at rates that would further increase the sector’s share of GDP. Excess cost growth is the difference between (i) the U.S. per capita growth rate in health-care costs adjusted for demographic factors and (ii) the per capita growth rate in GDP (both in constant dollars). Table 1 below provides a historical perspective on excess cost growth for the U.S. over various time periods since 1975. The values displayed in the table indicate an overall deceleration after 2010 with excess cost growth between 2010 and 2022 on average close to zero.

Except that it is only government expenses and doesn’t take into account the higher premiums and higher deductibles and co-pays that middle-class people have had to pay under Obama care.

It takes into account everything, it's all health expenditures in the United States. Otherwise known as health care costs.

So it is not so impressive at all.

It's okay, you already acknowledged it is. You were right!

 

[pknopp]

Hilarious nop

No answer to my question?

 

[pknopp]

Just think all the people made healthier because of the law that can work now.

Fewer and fewer as

 

[pknopp]

Just think all the people made healthier because of the law that can work now.

Fewer and fewer as prices, denied coverage, deductibles and co-pays continue to rise.

 

[otto105]

Fewer and fewer as prices, denied coverage, deductibles and co-pays continue to rise.

Hilarious

Maybe you prefer a one payer system over private sector. Or the HC prior to the ACA.

 

[pknopp]

Hilarious

Maybe you prefer a one payer system over private sector. Or the HC prior to the ACA.

I prefer costs and access get addressed. Do it however you want.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I assume you're talking about the graphic about the bottom about how future federal health spending obligations have been plummeting, saving the taxpayers trillions of dollars. Sure. That was meant to illustrate one example of the impact of the broader point made in the table above it: health care cost growth relative to the rest of the economy essentially stopped in 2010. That's all health spending, public and private.

Now you’re just lying.

 

[Greenbeard]

Now you’re just lying.

Denial doesn't change anything. Excess health care cost growth since 2010 has been zero. Taxpayers and premium-payers have saved trillions of dollars to date due to that bending of the cost curve.

Remarkable, unprecedented stuff.

 

[otto105]

Then you

I prefer costs and access get addressed. Do it however you want.

Then that would be a single payer system.

 

[pknopp]

Then you

Then that would be a single payer system.

If that is all you can come up, then that it is.

 

[otto105]

If that is all you can come up, then that it is.

I can't read your concept of a plan.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Denial doesn't change anything. Excess health care cost growth since 2010 has been zero. Taxpayers and premium-payers have saved trillions of dollars to date due to that bending of the cost curve.

Remarkable, unprecedented stuff.

What, Democrats lying about the way healthcare works? That’s not at all unprecedented.

 

[otto105]

What, Democrats lying about the way healthcare works? That’s not at all unprecedented.

You have a concept of a plan right.