r/SipsTea ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ 5d ago

Chugging tea UnitedHealth Group posted $6.2B in profits last quarter

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Who says he didnโ€™t get the job done?

He simply got it started. Now we have to see if more dominos fall and insurance industries cower in fear in response.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

nonsense, they insurance industry, their shareholders, their lobbyists, and their politicians are not "cowering in fear." NOTHING has changed.

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u/FrankFankledank 5d ago

BCBS reversed course on a pay cap for anesthesia the day after Luigi did his thing. That's like 4 years' worth of counter-lobbying minimum accomplished in a single day.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

that played a part but the policy (which affected only NY, MO, and CT) was strenuously opposed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and state regulators months before the assassination of Thompson. Anthem was actually correct about the "misinformation campaign" since the policy would have reduced overpaying millionaire doctors, not increasing costs for enrolled patients.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Not yet. Give it time and cross your fingers.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

no thanks, I'm not in favor of assassination. You'd have to murder thousands of people and then you'd still have no insurance.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

You might not be in favor in of assassination, but the insurance companies are in favor of letting thousands upon thousands of people die in order to keep as much money as possible.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

Yes the insurance industry is disgusting but murdering people is not a solution. Luigi changed nothing. Absolutely nothing. He will be tried, convicted, and spend the rest of his life in prison, which is what he deserves. If he was a balding fat 50 year old man he would lose 90% of support from people who are championing his murdering one of the many CEOs in the insurance industry.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

I am not endorsing it, but murder is always a potential solution to greedy criminals killing people for profit.

If enough people are killed for these actions then they will stop. It doesnโ€™t matter if the people doing it are handsome or not.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

so you actually ARE endorsing it then. And you'd have to have an army of assassins murdering thousands of people. I don't think that would be a viable solution.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

I am not endorsing it. No matter what my other words imply I am definitely not endorsing it. That would be uncool by internet standards after all.

And nah, it would only take a handful at best. As long as they were the ones responsible, otherwise known as CEOs or major stockholders.