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Health Care Reform is Dead
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Ah, open enrollment season, the time of the year I find out how much more I'll pay for less benefits in 2024.
Turns out its an extra $20/mo in premiums, $2K out of pocket difference vs 2023. Fucking A.
Turns out its an extra $20/mo in premiums, $2K out of pocket difference vs 2023. Fucking A.
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I hate doing this bullshit.
this is when it's nice to be a state employee. $39/mo pre-tax for my family premium, with the state kicking in the other $2,085.50/mo. admittedly this is a HDHP plan but with the HSA and my marginal rate I'd be on it anyway.
as someone familiar with the Hippocratic oath, you should not be administering salt to this wound
That's a better deal than I get and my wife works for the insurance company.
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI’s error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI’s error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
asteroid 2024
Feature, not a bugUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI’s error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Shocked! Shocked I say! 
theconversation.com
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
theconversation.com
jackslackofsurprise.gifShocked! Shocked I say!
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
This has been evident since about the day it came out.Shocked! Shocked I say!
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
Speaking of dead
gothamist.com
UHC is just gonna deny the claim he is dead and prop his ass up in the CEO chair, weekend-at-bernies style
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot, killed in Midtown, NYPD says
The 50-year-old was pronounced deceased later Wednesday morning. Police were still seeking the gunman.
gothamist.com
UHC is just gonna deny the claim he is dead and prop his ass up in the CEO chair, weekend-at-bernies style
can't wait to see what the investigation turns up. my money is on someone disgruntled that a claim got denied for like cancer or something. i've got some serious "maintenance de routine" vibes here.Speaking of dead
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot, killed in Midtown, NYPD says
The 50-year-old was pronounced deceased later Wednesday morning. Police were still seeking the gunman.
UHC is just gonna deny the claim he is dead and prop his ass up in the CEO chair, weekend-at-bernies style
Speaking of dead
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot, killed in Midtown, NYPD says
The 50-year-old was pronounced deceased later Wednesday morning. Police were still seeking the gunman.
UHC is just gonna deny the claim he is dead and prop his ass up in the CEO chair, weekend-at-bernies style
This is the kind of gun violence I can get behind
I will be VERY curious to learn if this was a random, or a hit.
Either way, no tears shed.
No way that was random.
I remember Marchione (the old fiat-chrysler ceo) had bodyguards and closed the entire floor he had scheduled for meetings when he visited locations around the world. A lot of people have beef on ceos for large conglomerates.
my initial thought based on the location (midtown) - very unlikely that this was random.
sounds like that's what the cops are thinking too
From HuffPost:
On an e-bike ? Hmmm
Spike is the market opening after they knew the CEO had been killed. Not sure if in here or zero faith thread.
It boggles the mind as to why dudes are nonchalantly blowing away health insurance ceos in the middle of Midtown Manhattan, casually strolling away, and then boarding a citibike for a celebratory lap of Central Park
Anthem Insurance issues new edict to cap anesthesia coverage at a time limit
Anthem Insurance issues new edict to cap anesthesia coverage at a time limit
From @jonKranked s CNN article:
"Some more context: Thompson was named chief executive officer for UnitedHealthcare in April 2021. UnitedHealthcare is part of UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest insurance company and one of the country’s biggest companies: UnitedHealth Group is the fourth-largest company in America as ranked by revenue, according to the annual Fortune 500 list."
Maybe someone should forward that article to Anthems CEO.
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so they couldn't treat him because he arrived with a pre-existing condition? or because he was out of network?
Speaking of dead
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot, killed in Midtown, NYPD says
The 50-year-old was pronounced deceased later Wednesday morning. Police were still seeking the gunman.
UHC is just gonna deny the claim he is dead and prop his ass up in the CEO chair, weekend-at-bernies style
Literally just filled out my 2025 enrollment bs for UHC. Our corporate plan isn’t awful…, but I would hate to have to pay the premiums as a private individual.
"The business run by Thompson brought in $281 billion in revenue last year, making it the largest subsidiary of the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group. His $10.2 million annual pay package, including salary, bonus and stock options awards, made him one of the company’s highest-paid executives."
apnews.com
UnitedHealthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York
Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the US but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected.
apnews.com
CEO pay just makes no logical sense to me. there's no clear correlation between what they do/bring in and what they're paid as far as I can tell.
CEO to regular worker ratios are much more sane in Japan, an actual civilized country.
CEO to regular worker ratios are much more sane in Japan, an actual civilized country.
Which is rather low for a c-suite individual..."The business run by Thompson brought in $281 billion in revenue last year, making it the largest subsidiary of the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group. His $10.2 million annual pay package, including salary, bonus and stock options awards, made him one of the company’s highest-paid executives."
UnitedHealthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York
Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the US but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected.
I'm certainly not advocating any sort of violence, but maybe some more of them should get shot.
Potato/patatoe
