Olde Hornet
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These insurance executives better wake up, people are pissed!
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Underneath the post, there were few who praised the sentiment. “I’m curious, money in whose pockets?” wrote one user. “It seems members are not the primary recipients when the ratio of CEO to median employee pay is 30:1 and revenue increases over 10pc in a year.”
Another spoke of how her 86-year-old mother’s healthcare plan had been terminated with no notice.
“Do better,” said a woman who said she had been diagnosed with stage four cancer, but had been forced to end her insurance coverage after UnitedHealth denied her medications. “Every month there is a different reason for the denial. As of today, we are well over our max out of pocket for the year, having spent well over $20,000 [£16,000]. Since we are in our 60s – we don’t have time to recoup that.”
Now, Thompson’s murder at the hands of a masked assassin has unleashed a further torrent of public anger in the US about the state of the country’s healthcare system.For some, sympathy appears to be in short supply. Within hours of the killing, videos appeared online in which nurses and patients posted horror stories of when they have had to deal with healthcare insurers. Under a video on CNN of the shooting, one commenter said: “Thoughts and deductibles to the family. Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network.”
The Americans who ‘just can’t feel sympathy’ for healthcare boss murdered in the street
Two years before Brian Thompson was shot dead on the streets of New York, a post by the health insurance executives received a string of anguished, angry responses.
Underneath the post, there were few who praised the sentiment. “I’m curious, money in whose pockets?” wrote one user. “It seems members are not the primary recipients when the ratio of CEO to median employee pay is 30:1 and revenue increases over 10pc in a year.”
Another spoke of how her 86-year-old mother’s healthcare plan had been terminated with no notice.
“Do better,” said a woman who said she had been diagnosed with stage four cancer, but had been forced to end her insurance coverage after UnitedHealth denied her medications. “Every month there is a different reason for the denial. As of today, we are well over our max out of pocket for the year, having spent well over $20,000 [£16,000]. Since we are in our 60s – we don’t have time to recoup that.”
Now, Thompson’s murder at the hands of a masked assassin has unleashed a further torrent of public anger in the US about the state of the country’s healthcare system.For some, sympathy appears to be in short supply. Within hours of the killing, videos appeared online in which nurses and patients posted horror stories of when they have had to deal with healthcare insurers. Under a video on CNN of the shooting, one commenter said: “Thoughts and deductibles to the family. Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network.”
