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UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” (open.substack.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Soooo.... It's obviously worse when it involves people's lives, but:

Every corporation does this. Maximize profit right to the border of legality. Sometimes landing on the wrong side of it, but that's "just the cost of doing business".

That's what you get with unregulated capitalism.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    People's health is the textbook definition of inelastic demand. It should never have been allowed to be a free market and we should require health insurance providers to be registered non-profits at the BARE minimum.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, but we also need to get comfortable piercing the corporate veil when it comes to decisions like this. The corporation diffuses responsibility, it makes everyone feel they must do a thing. We have to break through that and make it clear that people have a legal responsibility to defy instructions like this, to not give instructions like this, and to inform their superiors when instructions will lead to this.

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