If private insurance companies don’t succeed in their mission to kill, private equity companies taking over hospitals will. Paging Doctor Mangione, Doctor Mangione you’re needed stat.

#Hospitals #Healthcare #Insurance #UnitedHealth #LuigiMangione #Luigi

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/private-equitys-appetite-for-hospitals-may-put-patients-at-risk/

“Seven #UnitedHealth Group shareholders are calling on the health care conglomerate to produce a report on how often its policies lead to denied or delayed care, and the effects on patients and the economy.” https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/08/unitedhealth-investors-disclose-care-denial-prior-authorization/

She took two master’s degrees off her CV to get hired for a university job she was overqualified for, accepting a hefty career downgrade as well as a substantial pay cut she never made up again. “I know a lot of people who have wrecked their careers in this way – just to get health insurance,” she said.

#Healthcare #HealthInsurance #PrivateInsurance #Luigi #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealth

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/05/heatlhcare-insurance-challenges

Tomorrow, on the anniversary of January 6th, let us celebrate Luigi Mangione. He gave us a day of love that we've needed for a long time. Thank you, Luigi. You have awoken the realization of a long-simmering social problem and that realization is the first step to solving it.

#LuigiMangione #DayOfLove #Luigi #FreeLuigi #January6 #Jan6 #Insurrection #J6 #UnitedHealth

The problem with this article is that the #media hasn't been very empathetic here. This isn't a case of "white man kills family" and the photo is him jet skiing.

The media has actually been trying pretty hard to shame everyone who is being empathetic to him.

The empathy is coming from social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media

#MedicareForAll #Medicare #Medicaid #Healthcare #Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #Luigi #UnitedHealth #FreeLuigi #Politics

“If you’re unclear, #terrorism is when the #poor kill the #rich, and #selfdefense is when the rich kill the poor”!

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/luigi-mangione-could-face-death-penalty

#MedicareForAll #Medicare #Medicaid #Healthcare #Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #Luigi #UnitedHealth #FreeLuigi #Politics

Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: 'So Much Sympathy'

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-jury-sympathy-former-prosecutor-alvin-bragg-terrorism-new-york-brian-thompson-2002626

The state must find rare citizens to ensure the outcome it wants.

#NewYork #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealth #justice

What is actually unacceptable is for millions to die prematurely each year due to a lack of national #healthcare in the #USA

#MedicareForAll NOW!!!
#UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealth

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5044269-poll-finds-41-percent-find-killing-unacceptable/

#healthcare #MentalHealth #autism #UnitedHealth

'Inside the insurance conglomerate, the nation’s largest and most profitable, the slashing of care to children like Benji does have a reason, though it has little to do with their needs. It is part of a secret internal cost-cutting campaign that targets a growing financial burden for the company: the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country.'

https://gizmodo.com/unitedhealth-is-strategically-limiting-access-to-critical-treatment-for-kids-with-autism-2000538749

U.S. #Congress introduces bills to break up #UnitedHealth Group and other insurance monopolies. Independent report says Americans live the sickest lives and die the youngest. #news #brianthompson #luigimangione #warren #healthcare #assassination #google #apple @congress @unitedhealth @commonwealthfund
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13434

#BrianThompson’s a hero, huh? Yeah, gotcha.

#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With #Autism.

Leaked internal documents show that the #insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of #therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid #health #medicine #healthcare #LuigiMangione

#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With #Autism

Reporting Highlights

Secret Playbook: Leaked documents show that UnitedHealth is aggressively targeting the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country in an effort to cut costs.

Critical Therapy: Applied behavior analysis has been shown to help kids with autism; many are covered by Medicaid, federal insurance for poor and vulnerable patients.

Legal Questions: Advocates told ProPublica the insurer’s strategy may be violating federal law.

#UHC are fucking monsters, and if I had the power to strip the wealth from them and give it to these families, I would do it without question.

#Propublica is the best news org speaking truth to power. If you’ve got some spare change, consider supporting them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid

#denydelaydepose

Note: A week after the shooting, #BrianaBoston in Florida was arrested and charged after allegedly saying "Delay, deny, depose, you people are next" to representatives of BlueCross BlueShield after her claim was denied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

#LuigiMangione #unitedhealth
#DelayDenyDepose

DOJ probe was "reviewing whether #UnitedHealth’s acquisitions have consolidated its position in some markets in a way that violates antitrust laws…[DOJ] has reportedly been looking at potential monopolies in the managed-care industry since at least mid-2023."

"Typically a company’s general counsel would declare a blackout period barring trading in light of a sensitive investigation, according to John C. Coffee Jr., a corporate governance expert at Columbia Law School.

UHC didn't do that.

#UnitedHealth #CEO #Shooter #LuigiMangione is #rumored to be #bi, and the #gay #internet’s #thirst is real.

Allegedly assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson was enough for Mangione to instantly go #viral. His #shirtless #pictures — and his #rumored #bisexuality — are only the #cherryontop.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Bisexuals

https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/obsessed/luigi-mangione-is-rumored-to-be-bi-and-the-gay-internets-thirst-is-real/

“Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder”

#UnitedHealth #LuigiMangione

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/google-steps-in-after-mcdonalds-get-review-bombed-over-arrest-in-unitedhealth-ceos-murder-101733809168783.html

The Justice Department,
together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York,
🔥filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today
⭐️ to block #UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UnitedHealth)’s proposed
👉 $3.3 billion acquisition of
rival home health and hospice services provider #Amedisys Inc. (Amedisys).

The complaint filed in the District of Maryland alleges that the transaction would
❌ eliminate competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys (Defendants).

Since UnitedHealth’s prior acquisition of Amedisys’s home health and hospice rival #LHC Group Inc. (LHC) in 2023, Defendants have been two of the largest home health and hospice providers in the United States.

🆘 Eliminating the competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys would harm patients who receive home health and hospice services, insurers who contract for home health services, and nurses who provide home health and hospice services.

“We are challenging this merger because home health and hospice patients and their families experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their lives deserve affordable, high quality care options,”
said Attorney General #Merrick B. #Garland.

“The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the healthcare market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers.”

“Millions of patients depend on United and Amedisys to receive home health and hospice care in the comfort of their homes,”
said Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer. “

❇️ The Department’s lawsuit demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that consolidation does not threaten quality, affordability, or wages in these vital healthcare markets.

I commend the staff of the Antitrust Division for their extraordinary work on this matter.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-unitedhealth-groups-acquisition-home-health-and-hospice

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So, besides denial of care, UnitedHealth menaces our society in other ways. UnitedHealth’s acquisition rampage has gobbled up independent healthcare companies on its quest for monopoly control. UnitedHealth has also vertically consolidated to capture as many healthcare dollars as possible, even running their own bank to extract junk fees from health savings deposits.

So, imagine you work a shit job (at a healthcare provider!) with shit employer healthcare coverage that not only has the highest industry denial rate, it can leave you with $16,600 in uncovered healthcare expenses annually by design. That insurance plan pairs with a company-town-style bank that nickels and dimes your scant savings (because, you know, shit job).

Psychopath Brian Thompson created this. It was his life’s work. What a total shitbag.

#Healthcare #UnitedHealth #USPol #USPolitics #BrianThompson #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #GetProfitOutOfHealthcare

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In the 1990s, I used to work where Carey works. Back then, it was called The Polyclinic, an independent, Seattle-based, physician-owned, multispecialty medical clinic with 89 physicians. The Polyclinic’s ownership structure granted one share to to each physician. Physician-owners’ votes dictated policy change. As an employee back then, I had full health coverage with no out-of-pocket costs.

The Polyclinic has been the target of multiple acquisitions. The Polyclinic is no more. It now runs under the brand of Optum, a UnitedHealth subsidiary. The physician-ownership structure is long gone. So is the good employee health insurance coverage.

In 2018, UnitedHealth purchased The Polyclinic, which until that point had remained “staunchly independent for more than century.” According to Carey, things went south pretty quickly from there.

Carey says their HSA balance at Optum Bank always zeroes out because they must use the money saved there to cover out-of-pocket health expenses, because, you know, high deductibles. So, at minimum, Optum skims another $1 per month off them in fees due to not meeting the $500 balance threshold. Talk about adding insult to injury.

#Healthcare #UnitedHealth #USPol #USPolitics #BrianThompson #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #GetProfitOutOfHealthcare

"Project 2025 has called for making #MedicareAdvantage—the privatized Medicare in which #UnitedHealth specializes—the default enrollment option for #Medicare. This would essentially privatize Medicare for the 66 million people who use it, but since Medicare Advantage costs taxpayers about 6% more than Medicare, this would not create the savings Musk is supposed to be finding."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2024
#UHC

After just posting a detailed and thought out analysis of the CEO assassination, let me post some quick hot takes.

I don't think the killer will be found.

Buuuuut.... it is not outside the realm of possibility for a patsy/scapegoat to be brought in and tried as the killer.

That aside, I'm wondering if there will be a claim to the attack or published manifesto, if there will be other killings by this same person/group, and if there will be inspired/copycat killings by other persons/groups.

This is my current profession (edit: on the defensive side... not the contract killing side), education, and experience. It is also key to the political climate we're in right now.

So I am actively invested in the outcome of this.

#NYC #CEO #United #UnitedHealth #UnitedHealthcare #assassination #killing #murder