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UnitedHealth CEO Sparks Uproar After Unbelievable New York Times Op-Ed

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The New York Times has published the most inane op-ed after the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

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I thought they didn't want to provide a megaphone to murderers.
- That’s just for the poor.
  Rich murderers get to publish op-eds defending other rich murderers.
archive of the original NYT article here for reference.
Yet we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats. No employees — be they the people who answer customer calls or nurses who visit patients in their homes — should have to fear for their and their loved ones’ safety.
The subtle implication that all the vitriol is directed at front line workers instead of the executive team is infuriating and calculated.
Health care is both intensely personal and very complicated, and the reasons behind coverage decisions are not well understood. We share some of the responsibility for that. Together with employers, governments and others who pay for care, we need to improve how we explain what insurance covers and how decisions are made.
A hollow apology, the problems with US healthcare is not a communication problem.
Those were the only two sentences that aren't just empty platitudes in my opinion, at least within what I can read for free.
- I would argue that it is a communication problem. If the insurers actually told us what they don’t cover we would refuse to pay and that would drive down prices.
  More communication and understanding is exactly what we need. I shouldn’t need a lawyer to understand what my insurance covers.
- They dont even see the patients they bankrupt cripple and murder as paying for their own care
New York Times aiding and abetting mass murderers
- They’re already helping to abet a genocide. Why not mass murder?
- If they let Netanyahu write op-eds, why not give the small time mass murderers a chance too?
- I mean, they're already aiding and abetting the fascist apartheid regime of Israel and act as stenographers for killer cops, so supporting the atrocities of the powerful is very much established as their comfort zone..
Damn I hope United health care CEO Andrew Witty is fine and a second shooting doesn't happen to him. It would be so sad. So sad.
- (D)on’t (D)o (D)at
The myth: "CEO's have it so rough, all that responsibility of having to make life or death decisions weighs on them"
The reality: "Not my fault"
What a tone-deaf, passive-voice "mistakes were made, no one is to blame, least of all us" sack of shit. You will fight any attempt to change this system that is making you disgustingly rich. The wall isn't long enough for the healthcare executives that need to be lined up.
The governor of New York should issue Luigi Mangione a full pardon. He did nothing wrong. What he did was an act of justice.
What’s “op-ed”?
- used to describe a piece of writing that expresses a personal opinion and is usually printed in a newspaper opposite the page on which the editorial is printed.
  Source
- Opinion pieces from the paper's editorial board, and outside contributors.
- The origin of the term “op-ed” is derived from the piece originally having appeared on the “opposite side” of the newspaper from the editorial page.

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