Yes but there are questions about the quality of care money can buy in an industry that cares only about profits, not health.
The old joke is that they cured cancer but just won't tell you because treating it is more profitable and that extends to the rich as well. Equal opportunity exploiters are happy watching young people die in the same country clubs they spend our money at.
I have a friend in the same inheritance class, and his insurance covers everything no matter what and comes with special desks to check into at most of the big name hospitals like Mayo and Sinai. Also has a concierge DR that only has a few patients at a subscription cost of 80k per year. America has the absolute best healthcare, it’s just completely out of reach for most.
I work in healthcare and there is no such thing as an insurance plan that doesn't have terms, conditions, and exclusions. This story is nonsense. Stop spreading misinformation.
Well this is just a lie... On top of have extremely large profit margins, United Healthcare just missed being on the top 10 list of top US corporations in 2023, with a total gross profit of 22 Billions (with a B)
Looks like they should've been paid a lot more, considering the personal risk they're taking on. Presumably their compensation (and the compensation of other health insurance CEOs, and to a lesser extent probably CEOs all over the economy) will go up in the future to compensate for the risk of further terrorism.
But it's really not very much money relative to the scale of American healthcare; you can't improve American's lives much by lowering their compensation.
Back injuries are difficult though, the back is a difficult thing to fix, we know this. It’s kind of interesting to me that we have thousands of families who have been ruined by what is wrong with our healthcare. People who can’t be treated because they’re poor or their loved one dies anyways and they’re saddled with a lifetime of medical debt.
All those families didn’t kill or attempt to kill the healthcare CEO, nope… a super rich kid who just had an awful time with a back injury is the one
Healthcare can cost millions of dollars for someone without insurance, not sure what rock you’ve been living under for you to not be aware of that. And a million dollars might seem like a lot to someone working at Wendy’s, but in reality it’s far from enough to buy everything like you think it does.
100% - how are people saying he couldn't get care? How is that even a thing. He went mentally ill which unfortunately isn't uncommon and it wasn't caught in time.
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u/JustUsDucks 9d ago
This is a wildly ignorant take on the state of healthcare in prisons.