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Susananda's avatar

Does our Ponzi for-profit private health insurance industry share their profits (that are in the billions each and every quarter) with communities that train providers?

Passing a Medicare for All will save Thousands of Lives and Hundreds of Billions of Dollars and Will Prevent 500,000 Bankruptcies EVERY YEAR

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Jene Moseley's avatar

No matter how hard UHC tried to silence its critics, it won't work. We've become expert fighters and protesters. Trump keeps trying and failing because of us. UHC need to just shut the hell up.

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Erika Feresten's avatar

It’s time to replace for-profit health insurance with free public health care. Learn more at Health Care for US (hc4us.org)

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Susananda's avatar

Part D is another ponzi idea signed by republican President George War Bush.

Part D will not be necessary with passage of Medicare for all acts. Prescription drugs and all healthcare will be paid for with a progressive tax based on income with sliding scale.

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

United Health is the “ greatest show on earth”, completely criminal behavior and United Health doesn’t pay claims. They are bad people. If you expect them to pay all your claims, you will be disappointed. Since they are affiliated with AARP, i must assume AARP are criminals too.

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Kathy Powers's avatar

AARP has been pushing insurance for years. Now it is an agent of UnitedHealth that preys on seniors.

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

Exactly right!

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AmandaR's avatar

If they are attacking you, they are afraid of you

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Kathy Powers's avatar

I have to ask, when can expect the profit takers to decide they can't get anymore?

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Frank Lobb's avatar

35 years a go the US Supreme Court gave Insurers the right to deny coverage as they see fit. So attacking insurance companies is a losing cause. Why not simply cut their cash flow, which is easily done, and let the free market solve the problem we have with the health insurance companies? Because, it's very doable! Would love to discuss it with you Mr. Potter. And yes you can find me if you are open to such a discussion. Frank Lobb

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Kerry Michael Berger's avatar

This sort of public intimidation by United Health Care is as illegal as ICE detaining and confiscating money and property of American Citizens — not even undocumented migrants. This is just sickening to see the grotesque level of chaos and lawlessness in our country today. United HealthCare should lose its license and We The People and patients need to castigate the lack of action being taken by all the spineless politicians in the Legislative Branches of Government. Stop being a rubber stamp for these corrupt and exploitive Profiteering by these insurance carriers, and do your damn jobs.

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Jerry Myers's avatar

I don’t know that citing the NYT for anything makes sense to anyone who isn’t a zealot. Their bias is well documented and they don’t even try to cover it up anymore.

Also, why doesn’t anyone ever mention the deep British connections and roots of UHG?

Seems odd.

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Marge Falendysz's avatar

UHG is no different than Standard Oil in the early 1900s. They never should have been allowed to buy up as many companies as they have. Our justice department was asleep at the wheel on this one. UHG’s vertical integration is well documented and a huge abuse of anti-trust laws. Too big to fail? Old enough to remember Enron? I am. This is so corrupt and should have been stopped decades ago. Our Predatory Capitalism is a stain on our so called ‘free society’. We are not a free country. We are controlled by Corporate Conglomerates whose only concern is their stock price. We don’t need immigration reform; We need INSURANCE reform. UHG should be taken to court just like the 1911 Standard Oil case!

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Jerry Myers's avatar

Well, 2 things can be true at the same time. We need immigration AND insurance reform.

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Susananda's avatar

Except republicans have obstructed immigration reform for decades.

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Jerry Myers's avatar

Yeah, that would’ve been the boomers doing all that.

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Kathy Powers's avatar

Blaming the boomers again?

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Jerry Myers's avatar

If that’s who was in charge and that’s who made up the bulk of the population; does it not stand to reason that decades and decades of obstruction and damage would fall into the lap of that demographic?

Do you realize that when the youngest of the boomers turned 18 (1982), they made up about 34-37% of the population?

Thats an astounding number and the boomer dominance remained until 2019 when the Millennials finally overtook them by a mere 500,000 or so.

It’s interesting that you say “blame”.

Sounds like someone has a guilty conscience.

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Kathy Powers's avatar

I guess there's nothing left to break up monopolies. It's all about profit!

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Susananda's avatar

Absolutely, we could have encouraged e-bikes in 1900’s and all living beings, Earth and especially our atmosphere would be truly healthy.

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Jerry Myers's avatar

The Boomers strike again 🤷

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Kathy Powers's avatar

Okay, Jerry, has any progress or harms been created by other-than-Boomers generations? I want to know.

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Jerry Myers's avatar

What’s does “other-boomers generations” mean?

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Kathy Powers's avatar

The followers after boomers.

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Susananda's avatar

Also UHG has connections with USA retirement systems.

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Elizabeth J. Sampson's avatar

Yes, they have their tentacles in everything. And no matter what they do, they don’t pay.

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Marge Falendysz's avatar

I turned down a very lucrative job offer because their heath

insurance was UHC. That was in the late 80’s. UHC denied everything.

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Marge Falendysz's avatar

That was before they became a group (UHG). Now are they too big to fail? No way! They need to be broken up!

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