The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting

[Votto]

UnitedHealthcare has the highest claim denial rate among insurance companies, rejecting 32% of submitted claims compared to the industry average of 16%.

Thompson, 50, was a father of two. He became CEO of UnitedHealthcare in 2021 and helped the company bring in $281 billion in profits in 2023. Between salary and other benefits, he was estimated to have more than $10 million in compensation last year.

https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder-suspect-intends-to-plead-not-guilty-lawyer/

I thought Obamacare fixed all this stuff

What happened do you think?

How did the GOP ruin everything again?

 

[g5000]

You don't have a prescription plan? Lol dude everybody on Medicare has a prescription plan.

No. Only if they pay for Medicare Part D.

 

[g5000]

That's not true. Even in my red state programs are available for the poor and they spend nothing on premiums and get excellent coverage

You do understand those programs are subsidized by the government, right?

Soshilism!

 

[DonGlock26]

Millions of people have been priced out of the cost of insurance.

That isn't their fault.

Let's get the illegals deported, and take some of the pressure off the healthcare system.

 

[g5000]

Thank you. I've been pointing this out for ages and it always falls on deaf ears. Medicare for all wouldn't change a ******* thing when it comes to insurance industry profits, other than guarantee their baseline.

Universal Health Care would remove the for-profit side of health care.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

No. Only if they pay for Medicare Part D.

Under Medicare guidelines if someone can't afford part D the government picks it up, if they have to pay for it the average cost is under 40 a month

Maybe get informed before you look ridiculous

 

[martybegan]

Do you seriously want to compare complaints in England & Canada to those in the U.S.?

We can start by pointing out that people are shooting Healthcare insurance CEOs here in the U.S.

I don't have to wait 31 weeks for my care, and I am covered with a high deductible plan.

 

[martybegan]

Prescriptions are cheaper there. Florida was even trying to buy them from there. Please keep defending Medical Insurance companies.

Please keep pretending giving it to government would make it all better.

 

[dblack]

I don't have to wait 31 weeks for my care, and I am covered with a high deductible plan.

High deductible plans are the only sane way to do health insurance. People were beginning to figure this out before ACA.

 

[g5000]

By purposely skewed metrics.

Meanwhile in Canada:

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2024 Report

Wait times are getting longer here, too.


According to a recent study by the Consumer Choice Center, the average wait for a GP appointment in the United States in 2023 was around three weeks, two to ten times longer than in Europe. For example, in that year, the average waiting time for a medical consultation was two days in Switzerland, six days in France and ten days in the United Kingdom and Italy.

Infographic: Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait?

This chart shows the average waiting time for a doctor's appointment and for non-emergency surgery in 2023 (in days).

www.statista.com

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I don't have to wait 31 weeks for my care, and I am covered with a high deductible plan.

Before Oblundercare our health insurance was echelon, fully paid for by my husband's firm, same with associates, after associates had to pay for less coverage

 

[g5000]

Trump can't do that, that would be Congress who lied, ones like John McCant who ran on doing it but changed his mind at the last second.

Naturally, you don't think a Congress is needed since Biden pretty much does everything by Executive Order.

Obama put his ACA plan on the table, as promised. Then he got it through Congress.

Trump claimed to have a plan. He lied. He has nothing to put on the table.

McCain gave a thumbs down to a "skinny repeal" which was simply going to repeal some taxes in the ACA.

Since it was not a replacement, and would only add more to the federal debt, he kiboshed it.

You've been hoaxed, and you sit there and take it like a cuck.

This is what Trump loves about you rubes. He knows you will never hold him accountable for anything he does or doesn't do.

 

[martybegan]

High deductible plans are the only sane way to do health insurance. People were beginning to figure this out before ACA.

That and HSA's. I don't even use the money I put into it, just saving it for when I retire and actually need it.

 

[pknopp]

Obama put his ACA plan on the table, as promised. Then he got it through Congress.

Well no, he promised to put it online for everyone to be able to read and discuss. What we got was "We have to pass it to find out what is in it".

Trump claimed to have a plan. He lied. He has nothing to put on the table.

He did lie. Scummy to lie about something as important as health care.

McCain gave a thumbs down to a "skinny repeal" which was simply going to repeal some taxes in the ACA.

Since it was not a replacement, and would only add more to the federal debt, he kiboshed it.

You've been hoaxed, and you sit there and take it like a cuck.

This is what Trump loves about you rubes. He knows you will never hold him accountable for anything he does or doesn't do.

Granted, Democrats were held responsible during the 2010 elections.

 

[martybegan]

Wait times are getting longer here, too.


According to a recent study by the Consumer Choice Center, the average wait for a GP appointment in the United States in 2023 was around three weeks, two to ten times longer than in Europe. For example, in that year, the average waiting time for a medical consultation was two days in Switzerland, six days in France and ten days in the United Kingdom and Italy.

Infographic: Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait?

This chart shows the average waiting time for a doctor's appointment and for non-emergency surgery in 2023 (in days).

www.statista.com

So letting the government do all of it is the same thing?

but but but but but PFOFFFFFIIITTTZZZZZ

 

[dblack]

That and HSA's. I don't even use the money I put into it, just saving it for when I retire and actually need it.

Right. But this was cutting insurance companies out of the mix, and they didn't like that much. Thus, ACA.

 

[g5000]

Everyone lies dupe, but Trump did not lie about this

WOW! This is amazing! You've actually blanked your memory about Trump's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare!


HOOOOOOOOOLEEEEE SHIT!

You seriously mean to tell me you have blanked all the times Trump promised during the 2016 campaign to repeal and replace Obamacare?

Unbelievable.

Allow me to refresh your seriously defective memory with a couple examples from his first term:

Here's Trump just ten days before his inauguration: Trump Vows To Immediately Repeal, Replace ‘Imploding’ Obamacare

In his first press conference since the election, President-Elect Donald Trump called “Obamacare” a “total disaster” and vowed to repeal and replace it immediately.

Trump said a replacement for “Obamacare” will be offered with the confirmation of his health secretary.


Trump's health secretary, Tom Price, was confirmed on February 10, 2017: Tom Price Is Confirmed as Health Secretary


No sign of that repeal and replace has ever shown itself.

And you poor dumb cucks never caught on it was all a giant hoax.

You've heard the expression, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."

How many times has Trump fooled you on Obamacare repeal and replace alone? Way more than two times, this much is certain.


And the huckster continued to peddle his snake oil into his last year as President:

'Fox News Sunday' interview with President Trump

WALLACE: But you've been in office three and a half years, you don't have a plan.

TRUMP: Well, we haven't had. Excuse me. You heard me yesterday. We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do. So we're going to solve -- we're going to sign an immigration plan, a health care plan, and various other plans. And nobody will have done what I'm doing in the next four weeks. The Supreme Court gave the president of the United States powers that nobody thought the president had, by approving, by doing what they did -- their decision on DACA. And DACA's going to be taken care of also. But we're getting rid of it because we're going to replace it with something much better. What we got rid of already, which was most of Obamacare, the individual mandate. And that I've already won on. And we won also on the Supreme Court. But the decision by the Supreme Court on DACA allows me to do things on immigration, on health care, on other things that we've never done before. And you're going to find it to be a very exciting two weeks.

That was July 19, 2020. Did Trump come through on his promise?

Nope!

 

[Delldude]

Universal Health Care would remove the for-profit side of health care.

And introduce mediocre care.

 

[dblack]

Universal Health Care would remove the for-profit side of health care.

No, it wouldn't.

 

[Delldude]

Did Trump come through on his promise?

Why didn't He?