Remember what happened to Hillary when she tried to give us universal healthcare? She was absolutely destroyed by big money. Tr*mp of course, is planning to dismantle Medicare and switch ALL seniors to Medicare Advantage which are run by private insurers such as UnitedHealthcare. Tr*mp appointee Dr Oz to head Medicare is a big advocate of that. The worst is yet to come.
People always say violence is not the answer but peaceful protests haven't achieved anything and any other legal procedures have been blocked because those people have power. Health Insurance companies also inflict violence onto their "customers", it's constant and cruel. What about that violence?
Yes he made his job inflicting violence on his customers. He took on that risk. And this whole thing is just business. Eventually customers will get angry. He escalated it to this level.
@@the_om_project By "he" you are referring to United Healthcare CEO Thompson. As CEO he saw running his company as a profit-making game, not a conspiracy of financial violence against his own subscribers. Thompson may have been severely lacking in moral character.
I'm going to say something here. I'm not an American. I don't live in the US. But I'm paying attention to what takes place there. The murder of that CEO was a crime. It was murder and murder is never acceptable, BUT we celebrate as human beings whenever the villain in a movie is deposed/defeated/killed. In the real world, we celebrate when the same thing happens to dictators and other people we see as the bad guy because they cause pain and suffering and people feel a great sense of relief when they are removed and they celebrate their removal and the person/persons who removed them. That's what all we're seeing here. Mangione is seen as having struck a blow on behalf of millions of suffering people that is why he is being celebrated.
@@Velvet_hippo I don’t like seeing violence either, but _historically speaking_ it can be an effective tactic for change. Not always, but sometimes.
We need to not let this go. We need to not get distracted from the CORE ISSUE. For-profit health insurance is based on a fundamental conflict of interest. The more healthcare that is denied, the more profit these companies make. THIS IS THE ONLY ISSUE WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING regarding this event. $450 BILLION dollars PER YEAR. ~68,000 deaths attributable to delayed, withheld, and lacking care PER YEAR. These private for-profit healthcare corporations are selling years of our life expectancy for as much money as they can extract from us. We pay more per capita for healthcare than any other nation on earth, yet we are consistently worse than 40th in life expectancy. Private, for-profit health insurance NEEDS TO END.
@neverendingstudent . YES!!! 😢😢😢😮😮😮 Precisely. Unfortunately. $450 billion, with no smiles from millions of 'clients' (either Dissatisfied or DEAD) = NOT OK !!!!!OKAAAAY 😢
Yes. WRITE / CALL often 1. your congresspeople (senate and house), 2. your governor, 3. the companies themselves (flood their contact us or media email with meaningful content. Set a schedule to do this monthly. Discussing on social media is easiest, but to show we mean business we need put in more effort.
You took the words right out of my mouth.I have saying these things FOR YEARS! It is astonishing to me that people don't perceive the CONFLICT OF INTEREST.I am not against capitalism per se.But there are different forms of capitalism.For profit healthcare is BAIT AND SWITCH CAPITALISM.PREDATORY CAPUTALISM.DECEIVE AND DEFRAUD CAPITALISM .I am relieved I am not the only person who gets it.Thankyou.
He didnt mind all the people who died because of his job and went home everyday and had dinner and slept like a baby!! Dont forget who tue murderer is here! Ive seen all of it as a nurse and people die every minute because of these monsters of greed! No empathy for those people...
When he was first hired, he made double interest for unitehealthcare while he lived a luxury lifestyle. His wife and him were separated, and she was living in another home before he got killed
My son was diagnosed with Crohn’s at age seven. We spend thousands every year for insurance and on top of that still make monthly payments to the hospital for what insurance does not cover. When you have IBD and find a medication that works you cannot switch because if you stop your body will develop antibodies and the med stops working when that happens.
@mickkykress We could write a big book about all our stories of being denied healthcare and worse. Maybe we should do that. BUT we should ALL step up and declare we're not going to be victimized anymore. Who is with me, or are you still afraid? Your stories position you in a protest mode. DO IT.
I feel so horribly bad for this situation but unfortunately United health did worse. They were denying chemo to children and the elderly with cancer because they weren't "sick enough." So basically until you were eligible for end of life care they would not pay for your chemo. Also heard pretty horrible stories of typically healthy people with a condition like diabetes being cut off their life saving treatments until after they died. United Health is by far the most egregiously terrible health insurance anyone could have. The fact that it took a CEO dying for news to call this out is ridiculous.
Luigi had a botched surgery. At 26 yrs old, it's possible that surgery was for profit, not to help him. After they screw you up, they throw up their hands and call it failed back surgery and there's nothing more they can do. They want you to accept your chronic pain and the devastation it causes. It's the predatory actions that also physically and emotionally damage patients.
Luigi’s mother had Neuropathy for YEARS. Luigi’s mother was a client of UHC. Luigi watched his mother in extreme pain for YEARS; it’s my guess that he just couldn’t take it anymore. Luigi was not a client of UHC.
The CEO sold out when they came under investigation. How many politicians did the same - they all had advance information. They are all in cahoots to loot.
@@thegreypath1777 id like to make sure of that. united has taken over a lot of healthcare in a lot of states, including medicare and medicaid, under a lot of different names. it would be good to check what his insurance experience actually was, other than just his mom. also, his mom was certainly wealthier than luigi as a young person, so why would she have had united health group? its because they own a lot more than people know they do. this is something id like to see checked.
I had a United Healthcare plan once, never cost them a penny since I don't have any medical conditions other than migraines (knock on wood). I didn't take any prescriptions for them - the ones I tried had made me really sleepy - but once a doctor gave me a sample of one I hadn't heard of. Worked great and zero sleepiness. UH didn't cover it so I petitioned them. Six or eight weeks later finally got a telephone "hearing", pleaded my case with a group of their representatives. I asked if any of them were doctors or nurses. None they replied, no medical knowledge needed for petitions. Insane. No surprise, weeks after that was notified that petition was denied. But some good came of it all, that's when I switched health plans...
I’m a retired doctor. It used to drive me insane when I had to argue with insurance company representatives about something a patient needed. I would ask what their qualifications were and it was always some nonsense certification provided by the insurance company. When I told one woman she was practicing medicine without a license, she replied that she wasn’t saying the patient didn’t need the procedure, just that they weren’t going to pay for it! Infuriating. And I retired more than 10 years ago. It’s only gotten worse since then.
What people also don’t understand is insurance companies also shift liability back to the doctor. You can’t sue insurance company for malpractice. Imagine if we could…..
one of their flacks was saying the other day on TV about how denying care was good because it spares people the pain and expense of unnecessary procedures and treatments (treatments, which BTW were prescribed by an MD). That is very noble of them. But basically that means they're deciding which procedures are medically necessary- that sounds a LOT like practicing medicine. Do the insurance company employees deciding which treatments are inappropriate have licences to practice medicine? Because I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to do so without a licence.
This is a core issue, and making insurance companies liable for the outcomes of withholding or substituting treatment would set them straight real quick. I’m all for malpractice litigation against insurance companies. If they want to practice that kind of power, they should accept the responsibility that comes with it. Providers do.
Without price controls in healthcare you have a company that takes an aid medicine from $12.50 a pill to $750 a pill over night. This is reflected in taxes and healthcare premiums.
$12.50 a pill? That's outrageous. My country buys drugs in bulk for the cheapest price. All prescriptions are free here, no matter what the meds. USA has to get insurance companies out of health, it would save you billions.
This is one of the reasons I switched to medicine in my older age. I may not have a long clinical career but I intend to leverage my education to change healthcare policy.
Explain that. How do you plan to "change" policy just by joining the system? I don't hear that plan as being any real solid path for positive change in our country.
The top executive of United Health is Andrew Witty and needs to answer the outcries from the US population about United Health’s practices of “DELAY…DENY…DEFEND” on prior authorization and claims. The government must investigate and abolish the practice of “DELAY…DENY…DEFEND” by the insurance companies.
The government DOES NOT need to investigate any private insurance companies for Malfeasance if Private Insurance were ILLEGAL. Of course, they SHOULD NOT be allowed to exit. Any private health insurance companies should NOT be allowed to make a profit or exit. Case Closed !! Single Payer government run and paid for system.
I will be honest, I am in my 40s and just now am learning about insurance companies' horrible practices such as United Healthcare. While I knew about them generally, I never truly understood them on a deeper level. I can now connect the dots to my own past experience with them, and the many times I have been upset and confused with my bills or denied claims. This frustrating experience is matched with the millions of Americans. It makes sense that we have endured decades of wealth inequality - they get richer while we get poorer. This is unacceptable, what justice is there for us?
They deny legitimate claims to elderly and psychiatric patients the most because those patients are least likely to be able to manage the complicated appeals process.
This was well done. But the fact is the entirety of the United States healthcare system is a loathsome crime syndicate. It’s NOT broken, it works perfectly as designed for the for profit system.
@@jschuler53 Actually...think deeper. It is a fair comparison. One primary reason Hitler was so hated was his decision to create mass murder on a population. What do you think these insurances companies are doing for profit? 1000s die EVERY SINGLE DAY so just a few can have more money. THIS IS MASS MURDER FOR MONEY. Hitler, merc groups like the Wagner Group, Insurance Companies...only one has the gall to try to hide and disguise as "necessary good business" through BLATANT LIES while they try to get more BILLIONS (yes, with a B) every year in profit. Yeah, the more I think about it...the more it fits.
The working class knows exactly why the insurance CEO was recently targeted for assassination. We have numerous instances of mass shootings every year in this nation. Why? It's the frustration and anger of living in a nation which allows preditors to rig a system against us, denying many millions of it's citizens opportunities in health care, education, housing, etc. It is becoming increasingly more obvious to increasingly more citizens that we are denied the rights and privileges that are provided by all the other industrialized nations of the world. America is the richest nation in the world, and yet they have a dystem which has the bottom 60% of wage earners living a third world existance. Worse yet, we are arriving at the truth that our bodies and our very lives are being used as a demonic income source by the preditors in the American system. We are the cash cows for the prison industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the health care industry, and even in regard to higher education. Our overall quality of life is in steep decline, and there appears to be no way to resolve or rectify a system which now openly shows disregard and disdain for its wage slaves. The corrupt health care system is the "poster boy" for these preditory systems which deny us the freedom of self-determination, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When you take away the peoples hope, then leave them feeling helpless to improve or escape from their hopeless existence, the blowback can be shockingly irrational and tragically violent. Yesterday, we did not have a faceless eruption of violence directed at society, a society that allows preditors the legal legitimacy to prey upon the people with impunity, while getting paid millions each year as their "reward". Yesterday, the frustration and rage was not directed toward the system that allows the preditors free range. Yesterday, the frustration and rage was directed at the preditor. The individual murdered yesterday was the symbol, the "poster boy" for the preditors and preditory systems that financially and morally rape the weaker and voiceless of our sick society. My man, Malcolm X, would say "the chickens are coming home to roost". Change is gonna come, maybe the mass shootings will transition to targeted shootings.
Very well said! You need to post this in a place where many more people can read it, you thoroughly describe the process and give reason for what has happened. 👍
When you give someone money and they don't give you the product its a scam Its like putting money in s bank and then them saying you have no money. People get more than a little mad, especially when it means you will now die. "You just signed my death warrant" Jigsaw
Why is no one talking about the SHAREHOLDERS to whom the insurance companies are beholden? It seems as if these shareholders are the real villains because whatever UHC et al are doing, they’re doing it for these shareholders. But who are these shareholders? Aren’t they ordinary citizens like us - men and women with ordinary jobs who decided to buy some stock in UHC and as a result are getting a nice dividend income at the end of the year, or at the end of each quarter? And if things are so bad with the US system, why don’t they protest at the annual shareholders meeting? In fact, has there ever been such a protest? If not, why not? Someone should explore the world of these shadowy shareholders. And finally, if Americans are so fed up with the system, why did they just elect exactly those politicians who are LEAST likely to improve the system?
I was paying 500.00 a month for health insurance, had a 14,000.00 deductible before they pay anything then it was percentage of bill on top. So guess who never went to the doctor unless they thought they might die? Yep… total profit for the insurance company for years. It’s disgusting. Shame on them.
@Govtuff. Yes, but relatively easy to say, but what are WE GOING TO DO TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM> Will we continue to bitch on comment sections or are we brave enough to DO SOMETHING actionale. I am sick of people apologizing for capitalism when it CLEARLY doesn't apply to healthcare. Stop apoloziging for being a victim.
@christian-gu5oq universal Healthcare is working fine throughout Europe and in several Asian countries. The difference is philosophical. In those countries thr purpose of Healthcare is to keep people healthy. IN America profit comes first. Before human life and health.
Do you think for one moment if someone was stabbing me in the back I wouldn’t defend myself, that’s only self defence. I wouldn’t even think twice. There’s lots of people out there that should be defending themselves. Healthcare is actually commiting premeditated murder Over and over and everyone one knows about it and for financial gain as well.
We employees get the same treatment. They use you up until you can barely function and also force you to take bad medication if it's a cheaper option. I was a very recent employee so I just posted my story and hope they don't go after me for sharing it
tethering healthcare to employment forces many bad professional decisions....foisting medical costs onto small businesses depresses entrepreneurship.....we pay the most, while covering the fewest, with worst aggregate outcomes...healthcare financing should not be profit because the demand for health is not sensitive to price....therefore the providers (hospitals and pharmaceuticals) price on value not cost..it is literally "your money or your life"...
I am a retired physician and I'm 69 years old You stated that the US healthcare system, among other goals, prioritizes quality. I don't see how you can say that when the United States has the worst outcome data of any wealthy country and it's worse than many not so wealthy countries. A law passed in 1945 called the mccarran-ferguson ACT exempted the health insurance industry from all federal antitrust law. And when a insurance company refused to pay for a treatment that my patient absolutely needed, the insurance company was reliable. Is the doctor that gets sued if they don't do something the patient absolutely needs even though the reason the doctor didn't do it is that the insurance company denied coverage. I remember one of my patience was taking lithium - I'm a psychiatrist - passed out at the wheel of her car, ran up on the curb and seriously injured a man. Her attorney tried to sue me. But the actual cause of her passing out was that she had received an injection of penicillin in her family practitioners office. The family practitioner had not kept her in the office the needed about a time after the penicillin injection to make sure she didn't go into anaphylaxis. Her psychiatric medications did not cause symptoms that would make her pass out at the wheel of her car. I had two meetings with her attorney. It took hours to show him why the lithium she was on was not the cause of her car accident. After the second meeting, he finally got it. After the attorney realized that he would have to sue the family practice doctor and not the psychiatrist, he almost cried. Literally he had a hard time controlling himself. It is much easier to obtain a verdict against a psychiatrist than it is to obtain a verdict against the family practice physician. The attorney bemoaned all the hours he has spent working on her case. I expressed empathy for him because he was so distressed. But I'm also kind of amazed that he expected sympathy from someone he had just harassed for 2 months and and require me to put through hours of effort to fend off his misguided lawsuit. 😢
So sick and tired of all these simps watering down their argument with bullshit like "violence is never is not the answer, murder is always wrong". That demonstrates such a callous lack of of historical knowledge and about the world in general
It's scary how much this is turning out to be like the Joker movie. "If I died you'd step right over me." This sort of thing where the average person is celebrating someone's death means there is serious trouble brewing. Someone has to wake up and do something to fix the situation, or it ends up in riots and many more deaths.
Someone has to wake up huh. All of us are complicit in the erosion of American society by remaining silent. That 'Someone' has to be everyone. It takes a crowd to change a scene.
@luxj.9451 As a better human being, I choose to show empathy. Unfortunately, my application for empathy was declined, as it was deemed not medically necessary. I tried paying empathy out of pocket, but apparently , my account has zero f*cks left to give. My appeal is currently pending review, and it'll be 3 working months before we see the first dribble of sympathy for this poor mass-m*rderer who got rich by denying life-saving healthcare to tens of thousands yearly.
If I say thousands of people who died due to denied coverage from our Healthcare system. Nobody blinks an eye But if I say one little CEO will die, then everyone loses their minds! Because the people who died didn't have families (sarcasm)
@@luxj.9451The worst part about it is it's probably going to happen again because they're treating it as if nothing is wrong with our Healthcare system And Republicans are still arguing that despite them arguing in the comments with their media
If I remember from my mcat p/s studying. The population is becoming class conscious after being told false consciousness lies from the insurance industry .
I currently am in undergrad and do research on IBD and it would be really interesting if you could post a video talking more about your journey dealing with IBD and how it has affected and continues your life. I looked a little bit and found some past videos but a newer one would be fantastic
There is a three prong problem: 1) Research into cures which are possibly non-invasive and inexpensive 2) Teaching lifestyle changes, and prevention 3) Eliminate health care insurance and provide public insurance
Brian Thompson….bean counter, back ground an “accountant”…..so HOW in the hell can this dude have the where with all to get this job with UnitedWEALTH Care and makes these life or death decisions…when he counts money for a living? There’s your answer…..he counts money for a Living. …..or did anyways….
There is a hospital called Mercy Hospital in Toledo. They recently initiated actions against a Major Healthcare Company for Contract Violation’s! I suspect that #DoctorsAreRebelling
Medicare For All. Seniors LOVE it. We need it expanded. Head to toe care, & mental health. Administrative costs are SO MUCH LOWER than for-profit shaft-the-patient "healthcare."
Kevin. Sir 🙏🏽. I just found your channel. You’re literally my eldest son age. It gives me hope that your generation and the intelligence, societal empathy I see Exist. Thank you and keep up the good work. I’m subscribed and will support in All ways to you. We need you
12:01 that down side is because their NHS is Not Funded Enough. If they Properly funded it there would be plenty of specialists available. I’m having to wait months to see my specialists in America. So what’s the difference? I’ve been suffering for Five Months to finally get a diagnosis of Gastroparesis. Tell me how my experience is So Much Better under these rapacious health insurance companies.
In order for a market solution to be even attempted two things must be true: Elastic demand, elastic supply. Which basically means that as a consumer you can say no and not participate at all in the market and as a entrepreneur you can enter the market. In healthcare neither is true. You cannot say no to their services because you will die and you cannot create your insurance bussiness because you need extrodinary capital not mentioning the oligopolistic procedures the big companies use to block competion.
Just make sure that the shareholders know who they are...is YOUR retirement depending on high healthcare profits? Or maybe your 401K invests in the War Machine...either way, fewer things are more profitable than killing people. Worse, there is no accountability-- it is time to hold shareholders accountable for funding the killings.
I’ve had very few problems (some copays were more than I thought they should be.) with my private insurance and much cheaper than Medicare. But I do sympathize with people who are denied with needed services. Something has to change.
I’m tired of hearing how Americans can get into a doctor faster than Canada or Great Britain. Took 7 months to get into a rheumatologist. Primary care doctor: 3 month wait & I’m not a new patient. I was in a ENT surgeon office who needed to refer a woman to a specialist & could not get her in for an appointment for A SOLID YEAR. She was going blind & would be blind in less than a year & he couldn’t a her appointment. That’s all kind of wrong. Canada & Britain don’t have enough healthcare providers. WE DON’T have enough healthcare providers. I have “excellent” insurance (for the U.S. but when I had breast cancer in 2016, I owed a small fortune. Well, at least hospitals have payment plans.
Ever notice the commercials that ask us to donate to help kids with cancer and at the same time the health insurance companies are worth over trillions the math aint mathing
The thing with insurance that aggravates me is that it is mandatory. So if it is mandatory then either make it dirt cheap if we have to have it and be denied in multiple scenarios OR make it mandatory that said insurance have to accept the claims. No insurance company should be making over $500M+ in profits a year. I use the $500M as that could be used to grow the business or whatever.
It's not making $500 million in profits every year, it's making closer to 1/20 that. You are confusing revenue and profit. Also it is not required for you to have health insurance.
@ unlike you, I actually looked at the United healthcare earnings. From their own website. Their 8-K and 10-Q forms are open to the public. So no, they aren’t making 1/20 of the revenue, they are making more than that.
Hey, doc. I hear you say killing anyone is Never justified. Question ❓❓ : Would Assassinating Hitler soon after he came to power be justified ???? Just asking .
Ive been sick since 2009 too, from being over prescibed an NSAID, leading to chronic illness. I got 5 of my meds denied last month, and i will still be fighting for 3 of them thru New Years'.
This is my theory on this entire U.S. pharmaceutical debacle. It all started in 2005 when George Bush II decided to grant Medicare recipients drug coverage which seemed like a great benefit for our seniors AND initially it was. Unfortunately the Republican led Congress allowed the pharmaceutical industry LOBBYISTS to actually draft the legislation that would become the law in the United States. These pharmaceutical Lobbyists created and wrote the legislation so it benefited their companies more than the Medicare recipients! The legislation MANDATED that CMS, (the government agency that oversees Medicare) be REQUIRED to reimburse the pharmaceutical companies for ALL drugs covered at the Manufactures SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) regardless of what that price was! Example: if the drug company set the price of a drug at $100 - CMS was required to reimburse that company $100. The drug may have cost $5 BEFORE Medicare Part D was enacted. But now the pharmaceutical industry is mandated to be paid the higher MSRP of the drug at $100! AND they wrote in the legislation that CMS cannot negotiate the price! CMS IS MANADATED TO PAY THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WHATEVER SUGGESTED PRICE THEY DEEMED APPROPRIATE! Other pharmacy programs like MEDICAID, THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION and private health insurance programs through AETNA, BCBS, etc. can and do negotiate the price of prescription drugs. Where this entire drug pricing gets crazier is: Most health insurance companies reimburse for services based on what Medicare covers! This is a broad "rule" for all types of healthcare coverage including doctors visits, surgical procedures, durable medical equipment AND prescription drugs! So if a Medicare Part D participant gets a drug that used to cost $10 (before Medicare Part D was implemented) and now the pharmaceutical company changes the MSRP to $100 - it changes the entire system that the United States prescription coverage is based on for EVERYONE! If you have no insurance coverage and go to any pharmacy to get a prescription filled - the pharmacy will quote you a price of $100 because that's what the pharmaceutical company is valuing that drug at even it only cost $5 to create it! Their $100 price tag has been created to get more money from CMS but inadvertently increases the prices across the board for ALL patients, especially for patients who have NO COVERAGE or inferior coverage through companies like UNITED HEALTH CARE! In 2024, Biden enacted The Inflation Reduction Act which allows CMS to negotiate the price of 10 (JUST TEN) drug prices for Medicare recipients! It's a start but the legislators need to be more concerned for their constituents and not on what the pharmaceutical Lobbyists are giving them in the form of kick backs to keep the prices of drugs high and their record profits !! ADDENDUM: Costco (and Sam's Club -I think) offer lower prescription prices for anyone including non-members! You do NOT need a Costco membership to get your prescriptions at these member-only pharmacies! I know for a fact that Costco has a program for uninsured people to get their prescriptions at almost cost! Several years ago I had NO health insurance. I had been biten by my cat which got infected (not her fault but that's a story for another time). My forearm swelled and was weeping so I went to an urgent care hospital location. They diagnosed it as sepsis and you could literally see the infection traveling up my arm as it was swollen and very painful. They gave me I.V. antibiotics. I had to go back for these I.V. for 3 consecutive days. I was also given a prescription for a strong antibiotic. I called around to compare the prescription price. Walgreens was $98, CVS was $93, Walmart was $75, Sam's Club was $46 and Costco was $24! All of these were the same exact drug with the same exact quantity!
Hmmm, and shortly after, the ACA was passed.....why didn't Democrats fix it? OH!! Because the ACA was a massive handout to the insurance, pharma, and hospital industry at the expense of doctors and patients who already had insurance.
This is a historic moment- a flashpoint in cross cultural class awareness. The line has been drawn and you have to pick a side. …and now the lead singer of AC/DC is involved!
why are people accepting this?? how is this in any way satisfactory for any healthcare provider?? god, i might be ‘just’ a dentist, but being unable to treat someone because they are unable to afford it is distressing, imagine something more serious
I know this is a bit off topic, but can you please tell me what brand that jacket is? I have searched for the logo, but have had no luck. You have my sympathy with the IBS situation. I have had a relatively mild case, but so lucky that it was not Crohn's
IT'S NOT BROKEN, IT'S CORRUPT!!! And our government lets them exploit us😢
Because the government is corrupt.
Fight back!!
Trumpsters, you have voted trump back into our presidential office! WHAT have you done?!?
Remember what happened to Hillary when she tried to give us universal healthcare? She was absolutely destroyed by big money. Tr*mp of course, is planning to dismantle Medicare and switch ALL seniors to Medicare Advantage which are run by private insurers such as UnitedHealthcare. Tr*mp appointee Dr Oz to head Medicare is a big advocate of that. The worst is yet to come.
It’s no secret which political party is owned by insurance companies.
People always say violence is not the answer but peaceful protests haven't achieved anything and any other legal procedures have been blocked because those people have power.
Health Insurance companies also inflict violence onto their "customers", it's constant and cruel. What about that violence?
Yes he made his job inflicting violence on his customers. He took on that risk. And this whole thing is just business. Eventually customers will get angry. He escalated it to this level.
@@the_om_project By "he" you are referring to United Healthcare CEO Thompson. As CEO he saw running his company as a profit-making game, not a conspiracy of financial violence against his own subscribers. Thompson may have been severely lacking in moral character.
@ he knew his “game” would cause fatal outcomes. Don’t wash him of responsibility with playful words.
Please show where we were protesting about Healthcare recently??
Right exactly. So many people have died on their hands. It’s like killing Hitler, you don’t cry for killing Hitler.
I'm going to say something here. I'm not an American. I don't live in the US. But I'm paying attention to what takes place there. The murder of that CEO was a crime. It was murder and murder is never acceptable, BUT we celebrate as human beings whenever the villain in a movie is deposed/defeated/killed. In the real world, we celebrate when the same thing happens to dictators and other people we see as the bad guy because they cause pain and suffering and people feel a great sense of relief when they are removed and they celebrate their removal and the person/persons who removed them. That's what all we're seeing here. Mangione is seen as having struck a blow on behalf of millions of suffering people that is why he is being celebrated.
Very well said!
Yes sir, question is, will it change the system ?
@@queensplace3497it won’t do a lot and it’s an awful precedent to start if it did
@@Velvet_hippo I don’t like seeing violence either, but _historically speaking_ it can be an effective tactic for change. Not always, but sometimes.
We need to not let this go. We need to not get distracted from the CORE ISSUE. For-profit health insurance is based on a fundamental conflict of interest. The more healthcare that is denied, the more profit these companies make. THIS IS THE ONLY ISSUE WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING regarding this event. $450 BILLION dollars PER YEAR. ~68,000 deaths attributable to delayed, withheld, and lacking care PER YEAR. These private for-profit healthcare corporations are selling years of our life expectancy for as much money as they can extract from us. We pay more per capita for healthcare than any other nation on earth, yet we are consistently worse than 40th in life expectancy. Private, for-profit health insurance NEEDS TO END.
@neverendingstudent . YES!!! 😢😢😢😮😮😮 Precisely. Unfortunately. $450 billion, with no smiles from millions of 'clients' (either Dissatisfied or DEAD) = NOT OK !!!!!OKAAAAY 😢
Trump wants to discuss daylight savings time. We need serious people if we expect any positive change on issues that matter.
Yes. WRITE / CALL often 1. your congresspeople (senate and house), 2. your governor, 3. the companies themselves (flood their contact us or media email with meaningful content. Set a schedule to do this monthly. Discussing on social media is easiest, but to show we mean business we need put in more effort.
You took the words right out of my mouth.I have saying these things FOR YEARS! It is astonishing to me that people don't perceive the CONFLICT OF INTEREST.I am not against capitalism per se.But there are different forms of capitalism.For profit healthcare is BAIT AND SWITCH CAPITALISM.PREDATORY CAPUTALISM.DECEIVE AND DEFRAUD CAPITALISM .I am relieved I am not the only person who gets it.Thankyou.
Hear, hear. Well said!! 🙏🏽
Healthcare should not be a business. Medicare for all or a national healthcare plan is a must.
He didnt mind all the people who died because of his job and went home everyday and had dinner and slept like a baby!! Dont forget who tue murderer is here! Ive seen all of it as a nurse and people die every minute because of these monsters of greed! No empathy for those people...
@JEBBY. you got me at "slept like a baby" while I' haven't had a good nights sleep in months due to negligent healthcare.
Me too 60 yrs, DRS. ARE ALSO TO BLAME !!!!
When he was first hired, he made double interest for unitehealthcare while he lived a luxury lifestyle. His wife and him were separated, and she was living in another home before he got killed
SO TRUE,AGREE
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MANY DECADES.
It’s true ! Where are all the good people ? Where are people so evil . Sounds like CEO had this coming up him !
They are a scam they kill people and get away with it with no responsibility for their actions.
My son was diagnosed with Crohn’s at age seven. We spend thousands every year for insurance and on top of that still make monthly payments to the hospital for what insurance does not cover. When you have IBD and find a medication that works you cannot switch because if you stop your body will develop antibodies and the med stops working when that happens.
@@muma6559people can not always just get up & move .
@mickkykress We could write a big book about all our stories of being denied healthcare and worse. Maybe we should do that. BUT we should ALL step up and declare we're not going to be victimized anymore. Who is with me, or are you still afraid? Your stories position you in a protest mode. DO IT.
I feel so horribly bad for this situation but unfortunately United health did worse. They were denying chemo to children and the elderly with cancer because they weren't "sick enough." So basically until you were eligible for end of life care they would not pay for your chemo. Also heard pretty horrible stories of typically healthy people with a condition like diabetes being cut off their life saving treatments until after they died. United Health is by far the most egregiously terrible health insurance anyone could have. The fact that it took a CEO dying for news to call this out is ridiculous.
We champion our troops. We can champion this patriot too.
Luigi is the HERO! FREE LUIGI...
Free Herouigi✊
Hes a killer.he deserves jail
@@smokerx6291 many people may disagree and say to you F O
Luigi had a botched surgery. At 26 yrs old, it's possible that surgery was for profit, not to help him. After they screw you up, they throw up their hands and call it failed back surgery and there's nothing more they can do. They want you to accept your chronic pain and the devastation it causes. It's the predatory actions that also physically and emotionally damage patients.
Luigi’s mother had Neuropathy for YEARS. Luigi’s mother was a client of UHC. Luigi watched his mother in extreme pain for YEARS; it’s my guess that he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Luigi was not a client of UHC.
Sure buddy, he didn't have a policy with united. You make no sense
@@thegreypath1777 actually, that was a fake manifesto, not the real one.
The CEO sold out when they came under investigation. How many politicians did the same - they all had advance information. They are all in cahoots to loot.
@@thegreypath1777 id like to make sure of that. united has taken over a lot of healthcare in a lot of states, including medicare and medicaid, under a lot of different names. it would be good to check what his insurance experience actually was, other than just his mom. also, his mom was certainly wealthier than luigi as a young person, so why would she have had united health group? its because they own a lot more than people know they do. this is something id like to see checked.
I had a United Healthcare plan once, never cost them a penny since I don't have any medical conditions other than migraines (knock on wood). I didn't take any prescriptions for them - the ones I tried had made me really sleepy - but once a doctor gave me a sample of one I hadn't heard of. Worked great and zero sleepiness. UH didn't cover it so I petitioned them. Six or eight weeks later finally got a telephone "hearing", pleaded my case with a group of their representatives. I asked if any of them were doctors or nurses. None they replied, no medical knowledge needed for petitions. Insane. No surprise, weeks after that was notified that petition was denied. But some good came of it all, that's when I switched health plans...
I’m a retired doctor. It used to drive me insane when I had to argue with insurance company representatives about something a patient needed. I would ask what their qualifications were and it was always some nonsense certification provided by the insurance company. When I told one woman she was practicing medicine without a license, she replied that she wasn’t saying the patient didn’t need the procedure, just that they weren’t going to pay for it! Infuriating. And I retired more than 10 years ago. It’s only gotten worse since then.
What people also don’t understand is insurance companies also shift liability back to the doctor. You can’t sue insurance company for malpractice.
Imagine if we could…..
J udges work for the insurance industry.
Yes, They got EVERYONE, doctors and patients, Under their GRIP.
@@the_om_project Yes, they do, just look at Briana Boston's Case.
one of their flacks was saying the other day on TV about how denying care was good because it spares people the pain and expense of unnecessary procedures and treatments (treatments, which BTW were prescribed by an MD). That is very noble of them. But basically that means they're deciding which procedures are medically necessary- that sounds a LOT like practicing medicine. Do the insurance company employees deciding which treatments are inappropriate have licences to practice medicine? Because I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to do so without a licence.
This is a core issue, and making insurance companies liable for the outcomes of withholding or substituting treatment would set them straight real quick. I’m all for malpractice litigation against insurance companies. If they want to practice that kind of power, they should accept the responsibility that comes with it. Providers do.
Without price controls in healthcare you have a company that takes an aid medicine from $12.50 a pill to $750 a pill over night. This is reflected in taxes and healthcare premiums.
$12.50 a pill? That's outrageous. My country buys drugs in bulk for the cheapest price. All prescriptions are free here, no matter what the meds. USA has to get insurance companies out of health, it would save you billions.
This is one of the reasons I switched to medicine in my older age. I may not have a long clinical career but I intend to leverage my education to change healthcare policy.
Explain that. How do you plan to "change" policy just by joining the system? I don't hear that plan as being any real solid path for positive change in our country.
You cannot change the system by being one of the followers.
Good luck with that
The top executive of United Health is Andrew Witty and needs to answer the outcries from the US population about United Health’s practices of “DELAY…DENY…DEFEND” on prior authorization and claims.
The government must investigate and abolish the practice of “DELAY…DENY…DEFEND” by the insurance companies.
The government DOES NOT need to investigate any private insurance companies for Malfeasance if Private Insurance were ILLEGAL. Of course, they SHOULD NOT be allowed to exit. Any private health insurance companies should NOT be allowed to make a profit or exit. Case Closed !! Single Payer government run and paid for system.
Just think what it would be like if the ACA was abolished. I remember when insurance companies did whatever they wanted.
I will be honest, I am in my 40s and just now am learning about insurance companies' horrible practices such as United Healthcare. While I knew about them generally, I never truly understood them on a deeper level. I can now connect the dots to my own past experience with them, and the many times I have been upset and confused with my bills or denied claims. This frustrating experience is matched with the millions of Americans. It makes sense that we have endured decades of wealth inequality - they get richer while we get poorer. This is unacceptable, what justice is there for us?
Insurance said my daughters appendectomy was not medically necessary......
Thank you for making this video. Exposing corruption is vital for justice.
Insurance companies shouldn't make money from these people especially health care...so wrong!
Exactly. For-profit screws everyone, but the greedy CEOs.
They deny legitimate claims to elderly and psychiatric patients the most because those patients are least likely to be able to manage the complicated appeals process.
This was well done. But the fact is the entirety of the United States healthcare system is a loathsome crime syndicate. It’s NOT broken, it works perfectly as designed for the for profit system.
Is murder always wrong? If Hitler was murdered in 1930 what would have happened?
@awoodman. Are you serious with this ridiculous comparison? STOP IT and stay focused on healthcare in the USA.
@@jschuler53 Actually...think deeper. It is a fair comparison. One primary reason Hitler was so hated was his decision to create mass murder on a population.
What do you think these insurances companies are doing for profit? 1000s die EVERY SINGLE DAY so just a few can have more money. THIS IS MASS MURDER FOR MONEY. Hitler, merc groups like the Wagner Group, Insurance Companies...only one has the gall to try to hide and disguise as "necessary good business" through BLATANT LIES while they try to get more BILLIONS (yes, with a B) every year in profit.
Yeah, the more I think about it...the more it fits.
@@jschuler53 The insurance business is responsible for even more deaths. it's not a comparison, it's a hypothetical
The working class knows exactly why the insurance CEO was recently targeted for assassination.
We have numerous instances of mass shootings every year in this nation. Why? It's the frustration and anger of living in a nation which allows preditors to rig a system against us, denying many millions of it's citizens opportunities in health care, education, housing, etc. It is becoming increasingly more obvious to increasingly more citizens that we are denied the rights and privileges that are provided by all the other industrialized nations of the world.
America is the richest nation in the world, and yet they have a dystem which has the bottom 60% of wage earners living a third world existance.
Worse yet, we are arriving at the truth that our bodies and our very lives are being used as a demonic income source by the preditors in the American system. We are the cash cows for the prison industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the health care industry, and even in regard to higher education.
Our overall quality of life is in steep decline, and there appears to be no way to resolve or rectify a system which now openly shows disregard and disdain for its wage slaves.
The corrupt health care system is the "poster boy" for these preditory systems which deny us the freedom of self-determination, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
When you take away the peoples hope, then leave them feeling helpless to improve or escape from their hopeless existence, the blowback can be shockingly irrational and tragically violent.
Yesterday, we did not have a faceless eruption of violence directed at society, a society that allows preditors the legal legitimacy to prey upon the people with impunity, while getting paid millions each year as their "reward".
Yesterday, the frustration and rage was not directed toward the system that allows the preditors free range.
Yesterday, the frustration and rage was directed at the preditor. The individual murdered yesterday was the symbol, the "poster boy" for the preditors and preditory systems that financially and morally rape the weaker and voiceless of our sick society.
My man, Malcolm X, would say "the chickens are coming home to roost". Change is gonna come, maybe the mass shootings will transition to targeted shootings.
Well said
Unfortunately, the rich and powerful will never admit the monster they've created: a sick and dysfunctional society.
Malcolm X was prophetic- his book truly eye opening. Too many of us are “invisible” in the same way now.
Very well said! You need to post this in a place where many more people can read it, you thoroughly describe the process and give reason for what has happened. 👍
These corporations behave in an identical manner to malignant tumors.
When you give someone money and they don't give you the product its a scam
Its like putting money in s bank and then them saying you have no money.
People get more than a little mad, especially when it means you will now die.
"You just signed my death warrant" Jigsaw
well stated
Why is no one talking about the SHAREHOLDERS to whom the insurance companies are beholden? It seems as if these shareholders are the real villains because whatever UHC et al are doing, they’re doing it for these shareholders. But who are these shareholders? Aren’t they ordinary citizens like us - men and women with ordinary jobs who decided to buy some stock in UHC and as a result are getting a nice dividend income at the end of the year, or at the end of each quarter? And if things are so bad with the US system, why don’t they protest at the annual shareholders meeting? In fact, has there ever been such a protest? If not, why not? Someone should explore the world of these shadowy shareholders. And finally, if Americans are so fed up with the system, why did they just elect exactly those politicians who are LEAST likely to improve the system?
Shareholders are the big banks. Blackrock morgan Stanley etc. at least they're the ones who hold the most shares and therefore most influence.
I was paying 500.00 a month for health insurance, had a 14,000.00 deductible before they pay anything then it was percentage of bill on top. So guess who never went to the doctor unless they thought they might die? Yep… total profit for the insurance company for years. It’s disgusting. Shame on them.
Time for Medicare for all. Save trillions and get better care than we are today and still save trillions. No CEO's and no more investors.
@Govtuff. Yes, but relatively easy to say, but what are WE GOING TO DO TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM> Will we continue to bitch on comment sections or are we brave enough to DO SOMETHING actionale. I am sick of people apologizing for capitalism when it CLEARLY doesn't apply to healthcare. Stop apoloziging for being a victim.
Medicare for all is not the answer we see in a much smaller country like Canada how it isn’t working.
@christian-gu5oq universal Healthcare is working fine throughout Europe and in several Asian countries. The difference is philosophical. In those countries thr purpose of Healthcare is to keep people healthy. IN America profit comes first. Before human life and health.
Commenting to boost the algorithm. Bless you for talking about this
Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one wrong.
Shareholder companies are all your enemy... You pay them, they screw you as much as they can, that's their perspective.
That's their government provided right.
Protection through anonymity.
Do you think for one moment if someone was stabbing me in the back I wouldn’t defend myself, that’s only self defence. I wouldn’t even think twice. There’s lots of people out there that should be defending themselves. Healthcare is actually commiting premeditated murder Over and over and everyone one knows about it and for financial gain as well.
We employees get the same treatment. They use you up until you can barely function and also force you to take bad medication if it's a cheaper option.
I was a very recent employee so I just posted my story and hope they don't go after me for sharing it
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My question is if we value quality why do we have the worst health outcomes in relation to the money we spend.
tethering healthcare to employment forces many bad professional decisions....foisting medical costs onto small businesses depresses entrepreneurship.....we pay the most, while covering the fewest, with worst aggregate outcomes...healthcare financing should not be profit because the demand for health is not sensitive to price....therefore the providers (hospitals and pharmaceuticals) price on value not cost..it is literally "your money or your life"...
Exactly, single payer is the only logical way to go
They way they treat the doctors is also a crime.
I am a retired physician and I'm 69 years old
You stated that the US healthcare system, among other goals, prioritizes quality.
I don't see how you can say that when the United States has the worst outcome data of any wealthy country and it's worse than many not so wealthy countries.
A law passed in 1945 called the mccarran-ferguson ACT exempted the health insurance industry from all federal antitrust law. And when a insurance company refused to pay for a treatment that my patient absolutely needed, the insurance company was reliable. Is the doctor that gets sued if they don't do something the patient absolutely needs even though the reason the doctor didn't do it is that the insurance company denied coverage.
I remember one of my patience was taking lithium - I'm a psychiatrist - passed out at the wheel of her car, ran up on the curb and seriously injured a man.
Her attorney tried to sue me. But the actual cause of her passing out was that she had received an injection of penicillin in her family practitioners office.
The family practitioner had not kept her in the office the needed about a time after the penicillin injection to make sure she didn't go into anaphylaxis.
Her psychiatric medications did not cause symptoms that would make her pass out at the wheel of her car.
I had two meetings with her attorney. It took hours to show him why the lithium she was on was not the cause of her car accident.
After the second meeting, he finally got it.
After the attorney realized that he would have to sue the family practice doctor and not the psychiatrist, he almost cried. Literally he had a hard time controlling himself.
It is much easier to obtain a verdict against a psychiatrist than it is to obtain a verdict against the family practice physician.
The attorney bemoaned all the hours he has spent working on her case. I expressed empathy for him because he was so distressed. But I'm also kind of amazed that he expected sympathy from someone he had just harassed for 2 months and and require me to put through hours of effort to fend off his misguided lawsuit.
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preach
What about a health care tax from every citizen so no one person will have the burden for their health and get rid of the insurance company
Like we have here in Canada.
If he was so wealthy then why was he being investigated for insider trading? Why did he do it?
he may seem wealthy (to us), but many have pointed out in (his) circles, he probably didn't feel wealthy. he wanted more
So sick and tired of all these simps watering down their argument with bullshit like "violence is never is not the answer, murder is always wrong". That demonstrates such a callous lack of of historical knowledge and about the world in general
Hypocrisy, cynicism, manipulation, and control.
Brian Thompson not Johnson. Also the police only found Luigi after someone snitched on him so it wasn’t really due to the police’s efforts
It's scary how much this is turning out to be like the Joker movie. "If I died you'd step right over me." This sort of thing where the average person is celebrating someone's death means there is serious trouble brewing. Someone has to wake up and do something to fix the situation, or it ends up in riots and many more deaths.
Someone has to wake up huh. All of us are complicit in the erosion of American society by remaining silent. That 'Someone' has to be everyone. It takes a crowd to change a scene.
He's the murderer here don't forget that!
@luxj.9451 As a better human being, I choose to show empathy. Unfortunately, my application for empathy was declined, as it was deemed not medically necessary. I tried paying empathy out of pocket, but apparently , my account has zero f*cks left to give. My appeal is currently pending review, and it'll be 3 working months before we see the first dribble of sympathy for this poor mass-m*rderer who got rich by denying life-saving healthcare to tens of thousands yearly.
If I say thousands of people who died due to denied coverage from our Healthcare system. Nobody blinks an eye
But if I say one little CEO will die, then everyone loses their minds!
Because the people who died didn't have families (sarcasm)
@@luxj.9451The worst part about it is it's probably going to happen again because they're treating it as if nothing is wrong with our Healthcare system
And Republicans are still arguing that despite them arguing in the comments with their media
The Luigi Mangione Trial is going to be rife with "Blame the Hero" type stuff.
If I remember from my mcat p/s studying. The population is becoming class conscious after being told false consciousness lies from the insurance industry .
Beautiful and very mature breakdown of the situation. Always words of wisdom.
United death care
Fight Back!!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 💪 💙
I currently am in undergrad and do research on IBD and it would be really interesting if you could post a video talking more about your journey dealing with IBD and how it has affected and continues your life.
I looked a little bit and found some past videos but a newer one would be fantastic
There is a three prong problem: 1) Research into cures which are possibly non-invasive and inexpensive 2) Teaching lifestyle changes, and prevention 3) Eliminate health care insurance and provide public insurance
Medicare For All !!!!!
Brian Thompson….bean counter, back ground an “accountant”…..so HOW in the hell can this dude have the where with all to get this job with UnitedWEALTH Care and makes these life or death decisions…when he counts money for a living? There’s your answer…..he counts money for a Living. …..or did anyways….
There is a hospital called Mercy Hospital in Toledo. They recently initiated actions against a Major Healthcare Company for Contract Violation’s! I suspect that #DoctorsAreRebelling
Michael Moore 2007 Sicko movie is free on his YT channel. Please share with M4A skeptics! Sadly, things still the same 😡
Justice.
Medicare For All. Seniors LOVE it. We need it expanded. Head to toe care, & mental health.
Administrative costs are SO MUCH LOWER than for-profit shaft-the-patient "healthcare."
They are trying to privatize Medicare with Medicare “Advantage” with disastrous results, claims denied, etc.
United just paid 10% of my eye doctor visit 😂
Kevin. Sir 🙏🏽. I just found your channel. You’re literally my eldest son age. It gives me hope that your generation and the intelligence, societal empathy I see Exist. Thank you and keep up the good work. I’m subscribed and will support in All ways to you. We need you
12:01 that down side is because their NHS is Not Funded Enough. If they Properly funded it there would be plenty of specialists available. I’m having to wait months to see my specialists in America. So what’s the difference? I’ve been suffering for Five Months to finally get a diagnosis of Gastroparesis. Tell me how my experience is So Much Better under these rapacious health insurance companies.
i love the honesty and raw emtionations. you have helped me through school by giving based takes, now give based takes in general. Keep it up!
That’s why I’m glad I’m on Medicare in my mid 50s.
So you’re on disability then?
The Military-Industrial-Medical Complex. The cancer grows as predicted by President Eisenhower.
In order for a market solution to be even attempted two things must be true: Elastic demand, elastic supply. Which basically means that as a consumer you can say no and not participate at all in the market and as a entrepreneur you can enter the market. In healthcare neither is true. You cannot say no to their services because you will die and you cannot create your insurance bussiness because you need extrodinary capital not mentioning the oligopolistic procedures the big companies use to block competion.
Mismanaged Healthcare Greed costs at the minimum of 60.000 deaths per year
LUIGI THE AMERICANS HERO!!!!!!
Universal healthcare Now🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
U.S.A. Uncle Sam's AmeriCare: healthcare where and when you need, Uncle Sam pays the bills 🖖End of health insurance mafia goons👍🤘
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Just make sure that the shareholders know who they are...is YOUR retirement depending on high healthcare profits? Or maybe your 401K invests in the War Machine...either way, fewer things are more profitable than killing people. Worse, there is no accountability-- it is time to hold shareholders accountable for funding the killings.
I’ve had very few problems (some copays were more than I thought they should be.) with my private insurance and much cheaper than Medicare. But I do sympathize with people who are denied with needed services. Something has to change.
Throughout this video you mistakenly say Bryan Johnson instead of Brian Thompson. Other than that great video Kevin!
@KarnbirRandhawa Bryan Johnson Is the Billionaire who wants to live forever?
Thanks for talking about this
I’m tired of hearing how Americans can get into a doctor faster than Canada or Great Britain. Took 7 months to get into a rheumatologist. Primary care doctor: 3 month wait & I’m not a new patient. I was in a ENT surgeon office who needed to refer a woman to a specialist & could not get her in for an appointment for A SOLID YEAR. She was going blind & would be blind in less than a year & he couldn’t a her appointment. That’s all kind of wrong. Canada & Britain don’t have enough healthcare providers. WE DON’T have enough healthcare providers. I have “excellent” insurance (for the U.S. but when I had breast cancer in 2016, I owed a small fortune. Well, at least hospitals have payment plans.
Depends on where you live then. I can get into most specialties within a few weeks.
As usual, Kevin Jubbal gives a thoughtful, nuanced take on a difficult subject
The system needs a good doctor to fix it.
Love your perspective on this!
Thank you for this!
You called it, by calling it out, “legal violence”!
In Canada healthcare is given by priority, if you need immediate care you get it. If it's say knee surgery and not severe you wait.
Ever notice the commercials that ask us to donate to help kids with cancer and at the same time the health insurance companies are worth over trillions the math aint mathing
CORRECT 😢 😮
The thing with insurance that aggravates me is that it is mandatory. So if it is mandatory then either make it dirt cheap if we have to have it and be denied in multiple scenarios OR make it mandatory that said insurance have to accept the claims. No insurance company should be making over $500M+ in profits a year. I use the $500M as that could be used to grow the business or whatever.
It's not making $500 million in profits every year, it's making closer to 1/20 that.
You are confusing revenue and profit.
Also it is not required for you to have health insurance.
@ unlike you, I actually looked at the United healthcare earnings. From their own website. Their 8-K and 10-Q forms are open to the public.
So no, they aren’t making 1/20 of the revenue, they are making more than that.
@@Beau_Caw_Kay
UnitedHealth Group's net income is about 6% of their total revenue
Hey, doc. I hear you say killing anyone is Never justified.
Question ❓❓ : Would Assassinating Hitler soon after he came to power be justified ???? Just asking .
The money was not their money from the government it was for care for the people insured by them. That is bad!
US taxpayers are expected to pay for iz rale to have universal health coverage, but not Americans.
Interesting that the DOJ has a investigation...thanks for letting me know...too long of story..
Thanks for being comprehensive in your video!
I'm worried that this is going to be forgotten too quickly for anything to happen.
I PRAY NOT SO 😮
Ive been sick since 2009 too, from being over prescibed an NSAID, leading to chronic illness.
I got 5 of my meds denied last month, and i will still be fighting for 3 of them thru New Years'.
16:44 right. Hope all this conduct us to a real change.
Trial and error is an understatement.
Great video! 🎉
This is my theory on this entire U.S. pharmaceutical debacle.
It all started in 2005 when George Bush II decided to grant Medicare recipients drug coverage which seemed like a great benefit for our seniors AND initially it was. Unfortunately the Republican led Congress allowed the pharmaceutical industry LOBBYISTS to actually draft the legislation that would become the law in the United States. These pharmaceutical Lobbyists created and wrote the legislation so it benefited their companies more than the Medicare recipients!
The legislation MANDATED that CMS, (the government agency that oversees Medicare) be REQUIRED to reimburse the pharmaceutical companies for ALL drugs covered at the Manufactures SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) regardless of what that price was!
Example: if the drug company set the price of a drug at $100 - CMS was required to reimburse that company $100. The drug may have cost $5 BEFORE Medicare Part D was enacted. But now the pharmaceutical industry is mandated to be paid the higher MSRP of the drug at $100! AND they wrote in the legislation that CMS cannot negotiate the price! CMS IS MANADATED TO PAY THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WHATEVER SUGGESTED PRICE THEY DEEMED APPROPRIATE! Other pharmacy programs like MEDICAID, THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION and private health insurance programs through AETNA, BCBS, etc. can and do negotiate the price of prescription drugs.
Where this entire drug pricing gets crazier is:
Most health insurance companies reimburse for services based on what Medicare covers! This is a broad "rule" for all types of healthcare coverage including doctors visits, surgical procedures, durable medical equipment AND prescription drugs! So if a Medicare Part D participant gets a drug that used to cost $10 (before Medicare Part D was implemented) and now the pharmaceutical company changes the MSRP to $100 - it changes the entire system that the United States prescription coverage is based on for EVERYONE!
If you have no insurance coverage and go to any pharmacy to get a prescription filled - the pharmacy will quote you a price of $100 because that's what the pharmaceutical company is valuing that drug at even it only cost $5 to create it! Their $100 price tag has been created to get more money from CMS but inadvertently increases the prices across the board for ALL patients, especially for patients who have NO COVERAGE or inferior coverage through companies like UNITED HEALTH CARE!
In 2024, Biden enacted The Inflation Reduction Act which allows CMS to negotiate the price of 10 (JUST TEN) drug prices for Medicare recipients! It's a start but the legislators need to be more concerned for their constituents and not on what the pharmaceutical Lobbyists are giving them in the form of kick backs to keep the prices of drugs high and their record profits !!
ADDENDUM: Costco (and Sam's Club -I think) offer lower prescription prices for anyone including non-members! You do NOT need a Costco membership to get your prescriptions at these member-only pharmacies! I know for a fact that Costco has a program for uninsured people to get their prescriptions at almost cost!
Several years ago I had NO health insurance. I had been biten by my cat which got infected (not her fault but that's a story for another time). My forearm swelled and was weeping so I went to an urgent care hospital location. They diagnosed it as sepsis and you could literally see the infection traveling up my arm as it was swollen and very painful. They gave me I.V. antibiotics. I had to go back for these I.V. for 3 consecutive days. I was also given a prescription for a strong antibiotic. I called around to compare the prescription price. Walgreens was $98, CVS was $93, Walmart was $75, Sam's Club was $46 and Costco was $24! All of these were the same exact drug with the same exact quantity!
Hmmm, and shortly after, the ACA was passed.....why didn't Democrats fix it?
OH!! Because the ACA was a massive handout to the insurance, pharma, and hospital industry at the expense of doctors and patients who already had insurance.
I just turned 65 I have United Healthcare and they have already turned me down for Mental Health Care I get 1,100 every month it sucks!!!😢
This is a historic moment- a flashpoint in cross cultural class awareness. The line has been drawn and you have to pick a side.
…and now the lead singer of AC/DC is involved!
JUSTICE JUSTICE DENIED 🙅♀️ IS JUSTICE DELAYED .
The problem is a trifecta :
Government- providers/hospital - insurance/pbms -
Start with price transparency
Bryan Johnson is the anti-aging guy LOL
No, he's the vocalist for AC/DC.
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why are people accepting this?? how is this in any way satisfactory for any healthcare provider?? god, i might be ‘just’ a dentist, but being unable to treat someone because they are unable to afford it is distressing, imagine something more serious
Justice
I know this is a bit off topic, but can you please tell me what brand that jacket is? I have searched for the logo, but have had no luck. You have my sympathy with the IBS situation. I have had a relatively mild case, but so lucky that it was not Crohn's
IBD = inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis)
IBS = irritable bowel syndrome
Jacket is from rugged elements. Cheers
@@kevinjubbalmd Thanks for the response!
America Needs Universal Healthcare More Than Ever, every other country has universal healthcare.