UnitedHealth Group leader breaks silence on CEO murder, says health care system is flawed
UnitedHealth Group leader breaks silence on CEO murder, says health care system is flawed
Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, memorialized slain executive Brian Thompson in an op-ed and acknowledged industry flaws.
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The NYT op-ed is a fascinating read. Very much in the style US oligarchs. Pompous, but still trying to be folksy. Dishonest, but with an attempt to enable plausible deniability.
a brilliant, kind man who was working to make health care better for everyone.
If that was Thompson's goal, he wouldn't be working for a US health insurance company.
We understand and share the desire to build a health care system that works better for everyone. That is the purpose of our organization.
This is clearly false. This a for profit corporation.
I wonder what the goal of this piece is?
The goal is to try to present themselves as reasonable people, because nothing about what they do is reasonable and that's why public opinion is so firmly against them.
The goal of this is to try and persuade the majority of people that he was reasonable. Right now, they’re scared as there are a lot of people talking about serious change. Social change.
Little, however, will come of it unless it coalesces and drags along the majority into opting out of the system.
Until he was arrested, Mangione was Neo in the Matrix. Now he’s be captured, the Agent Smiths of this world are cleaning up
And to shift blame
Pretend the system works fine and it's just a "few bad apples", that conveniently don't include anyone visibly rotten
They have to make a statement, they're attempting to not hide but also not enrage further. They, of course, because they can't be honest nor fix the structural issue that is the cause of the problem in the first place, failed.
"It's the system we have to work in, not us."
Plausible deniability.
The system you actively maintain
Their goal is to delay judgement on claims until people die, deny as many claims as legally possible so they can keep as much middleman money they didn't earn as possible. That's it.