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The head of United Healthcare Group, Andrew Witty, the parent company of United Healthcare, wrote that he understands “people’s frustrations” with the American health care system.
“No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a patchwork built over decades. Our mission is to help make it work better,”
Who here believes his mission was to make it work better? And for whom? The people, or the United HealthCare executives?
Him(made 23.5M last year) and Brian Thompson have been at it for years, at the top of the food chain, yet haven't done a damn thing to alleviate people's frustrations. United Healthcare has spent about 50 million in the last 10years lobbying Congress. Why do you suppose they gave so much to lobbyists that tried to persuade Congress to act in their favor? Why not put that 50 million towards claim payouts? Ohh yeah because Brian and Andrew would have been left out in the cold and missed out in millions of compensation. The stock price wouldn't have went from $200 a share to over $500 a share in 4yrs with out those at the the top maximizing income and minimizing expenses. Don't need an economics degree to understand that concept. But I'm sure one with a law degree could twist it up for us.
If you want the answers you follow the money. Its always been that way. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I guess it was Brian's time.
“No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a patchwork built over decades. Our mission is to help make it work better,”
Who here believes his mission was to make it work better? And for whom? The people, or the United HealthCare executives?
Him(made 23.5M last year) and Brian Thompson have been at it for years, at the top of the food chain, yet haven't done a damn thing to alleviate people's frustrations. United Healthcare has spent about 50 million in the last 10years lobbying Congress. Why do you suppose they gave so much to lobbyists that tried to persuade Congress to act in their favor? Why not put that 50 million towards claim payouts? Ohh yeah because Brian and Andrew would have been left out in the cold and missed out in millions of compensation. The stock price wouldn't have went from $200 a share to over $500 a share in 4yrs with out those at the the top maximizing income and minimizing expenses. Don't need an economics degree to understand that concept. But I'm sure one with a law degree could twist it up for us.
If you want the answers you follow the money. Its always been that way. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I guess it was Brian's time.