Group least sad about UHC CEO murder: American medical doctors

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I’ve not been active on TMF very much for the past few years. The reason is that I discovered a new area of interest: medicine. I’ve spent several thousand hours reading medical articles and on self-help medical forums, largely relating to endocrinology and hematology, plus associated differentials.

When the news of the recent association of the UHC CEO broke, I was quite shocked to find that US medical professionals were very much in favor of it. The broad consensus appears to be that the guy was evil and very much deserved what he got.

I believe the following post sums it up well:

Some of the worst moments of my career directly from UHC

I’m a nocturnist. when coming back on service after being off, there’s often a stack of envelopes - addressed to me personally - saying that the admission I did weeks ago wouldn’t be covered and that a bill for tens of thousands of dollars was sent to the patient.

Each envelope a person & family bankrupted because they were sick and I took care of them.

A stack of these.

Words can’t express the sinking feeling seeing that stack of envelopes.

UHC’s over 6000% increase in stock price since 2000 (over 10x Apple!) is fueled by the corpses and livelihoods of our patients. I hate them and you should too.

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Yes he was complicit in purposely Murdering many American citizens. He loved his money.

Picture an older women with little coverage. She has been divorced. Her kids did not get a college education because it was out of reach. Meanwhile he is a billionaire because he would deny her. He would dispute. He would delay. He would cheat her. He wanted to cheat her. She is dead.

That is murder with no face on it. But it is 30k deaths per year in this country. Multiply that by decades. Multiply that by the members of the families who have had it happen to their mothers, fathers, children.

It is murder. Americans see it clearly. Doctors have to constantly face it.

Wake up tomorrow. Imagine one of your loved ones gone because there was a medical bill you could not afford that was left over even though there was medical health insurance coverage.

Harris was asked if she supported universal coverage. She said no. That was repugnant. He said he wanted conceptually to replace. That was even more trustworthy. Kicking up a fuss of what he said did not matter. The fuss is unimportant. The press thinks fanning a fuss has some sort of import. We share press reports. Forget their self importance.