No Health, No Care, No Life
The relentless pursuit of profit comes at great cost
As I write this I’m still sick. Unable to use my United Healthcare Community plan because our government refuses to give us national health access. What good is health coverage if it renders useless once I cross an invisible border within these allegedly united states?
Even if I were in the correct state for access, the options for care are limited by an overwhelmed and crumbling system; a story we are all familiar with.
What’s new… is the dead insurance executive.
The investor’s meeting starting on time is wild. Also worth noting is that United Healthcare stock went up 1.28% by 10am that morning; it later began to fall in the afternoon.
Really speaks volumes about modern corporate culture when the shooting death of the CEO downstairs don’t holdup productivity. Decent PR would have been to publicly cancel the meeting, and then meet privately. United pulling a keep calm and carry on is very telling about their private atmosphere. Current and former workers have long said it’s a hellish landscape to navigate if you want to actually help people.
Profits at all costs is literal to massive corporations. Don’t forget, United Health is the beast of our healthcare industry, with monopolized markets on both sides of health services. Plenty of videos are circling with the dirty details of how they have their hands in all the broken cookie jars.
Executives know that denying lifesaving service literally kills people.
They don’t care.
Their money and comfort, and the money and comfort of their top shareholders, is all these executives care about. Insurance and medical services have been run like a Don Fanucci shakedown since Reagan.
We have arrived at the inevitable conclusion of decades spent not addressing the needs of our people, the corruption of corporations buying our politicians, and lobbying for death at home and abroad.
Which is why so few are shocked someone at the top finally got murdered. Why should we give a single fuck about a dead CEO with a broken personal life, who was defrauding his own company, while directly contributing to the death of tens of thousands of Americans each year.
That AI model the CEO rolled out, the one with a 90% failure rate—that’s not a failure rate. That’s a model that has been trained to have a 90% success rate in denying claims and increasing company profit. That model wasn’t a fluke, it was a deliberate design and implementation choice.
These healthcare executives can get fucked, and let me tell you why.
Among high-income nations, the United States has:
The lowest life expectancy at birth, and the highest maternal and infant mortality rate.
The highest rate of people with multiple chronic conditions, and the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable illness. We have one of the lowest rates for practicing physicians and number of hospital beds per 1,000 people.
We are the only wealthy nation that doesn’t have nationalized healthcare. We pay the most for health services, both coverage costs and point of sale.
We kill each other at one of the highest rates in the world.
We are among the highest suicide rates—close to 50,000 a year, and over a million more attempt.
The rate of suicide in the U.S. is on par with the number of people who die from lack of healthcare. These are estimates, because our Health and Human Services isn’t eager to prove how many people companies like United Healthcare and United Health Group are killing for increased profit. Same way the government doesn’t know how many homeless people exist because they don’t want to know.
The United States doesn’t care if United Healthcare kills you.
And for all this branding of united, it seems to me the only unity in U.S. culture is death. It’s what we allow corporations and corrupt officials to do to us, it’s what we do to each other, and it’s what we sell to every group of madmen on this planet—death for profit.
Perhaps it’s time we start being honest about that.