• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Maybe a deck of cards is in order. Populated with the top excecs in US healthcare

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        7 days ago

        Wow. It would be terrible if someone were to buy a bunch of decks of those cards and drop them around heavily populated areas where there are likely to be people displaced from their homes indirectly through corporate greed.

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      9 days ago

      This would sell well AND everyone would know what greedy murderers look like so they can stay safe.

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      Someone told them that a genuine smile can be seen in the eyes, so they tried to mimic a real person who isn’t a phycopath and they couldn’t do it. I personally can make a smile that invokes a true fear response, the secret is in the eyes, but I’m not a phycopath as I am capable of feeling emotions and empathy.

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    9 days ago

    Superhero movie villains are usually people or entities trying to bring about social change. They never seem to be villains who encourage death inside the current status quo though.

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    8 days ago

    Can a healthcare company CEO be a nice human ? Because for me the principle of the company is good I guess. i’m not american and most of our health expenses are handled by my country so I’m not USAn enough to understand.

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      7 days ago

      The way health insurance works is we (or more likely our employer) pay them, then when we go to the doctor they pay (some of) the bill. So, if you want to maximize profit as the insurer, you would find any way you can to not do the bill paying part.

      tldr, their job is to kill people for profit.

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      8 days ago

      It IS possible to have an ethical for profit health insurance company, but difficult.

      The ceo/board has an obligation to maximise profit for shareholders, there is such a thing as a “minority shareholder lawsuit” so even if you control 90% of the shares, if 10% of the shareholders decide that you arent acting to make them as much money as possible they can still sue. There are ways around this like having the companies mission statement be “95% of premiums will be paid out as customer claims.” Or similar. Making their money by having a larger market share or by vertical integration.

      It could be done ethically, but it wont be.

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      To achieve that level of wealth and maintain that kind of position, you must be willing to exploit people. It is a system that self-selects for the worst kinds of people that care about personal enrichment above everything else. It doesn’t really matter how they treat people to their face.

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      The ACA (Obamacare) requires that health insurance companies spend at minimum 80% of their revenue on paying out claims, meaning profit is only what’s left over from the remaining 20% after all other operating costs are addressed. They also need to reserve a certain portion of money to be available at hand for claims in case they exceed revenue for a period, similar to a bank. So unfortunately even a nonprofit health insurance organization is going to have high costs to its members simply because medical expenses are so high in America.

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      7 days ago

      Yes, there are some not-for-profit healthcare organizations that make more money when members are healthy. This is the best model for people.

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      9 days ago

      Witty is the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. Thompson was the CEO of UnitedHealth, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group.

      It’s all annoying and confusing by design.

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        9 days ago

        No, I mean a literal nother Brian. Brian Tyler. But yes, that too, in a more metaphorical sense.

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      9 days ago

      Took them a whole week to replace him. Got the new guy straight off the assembly line.