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UnitedHealthcare Is Struggling To Recover From Luigi Mangione (www.newsweek.com)

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The attack on the 50-year-old executive—allegedly by the now 27-year-old Luigi Mangione—immediately sparked an outpouring of public fury not at the gunman, but at UnitedHealthcare itself.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (8 children)

However, while it's understandable for consumers to get angry at their health insurers, it is also important to remember "there is no easy answer" for such companies as they navigate costs and care, Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Newsweek.

There is a very easy answer. Eliminate the health insurance companies. They do not improve healthcare and serve only to increase costs by extracting profit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are a wholly unnecessary middleman extracting a rent where none is due. They slow down the speed of care and needlessly complicate a very simple system.

It should not exist. They're the landlords of medicine. Entirely pointless and nothing more than a detriment to the profession, service, and function of healthcare no matter if its picking up a z-pack for bronchitis or having a tumor removed. Healthcare insurance serves no purpose whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not a specialist of the US healthcare problem but if we believe Marc Cuban, insurance is not the biggest cost problem.

[Masters of Scale] Rapid Response: How Cost Plus Drugs is revolutionizing pharma, with CEO Alex Oshmyansky #mastersOfScale https://podcastaddict.com/masters-of-scale/episode/187310275 via @PodcastAddict

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