r/technology • u/cmaia1503 • Feb 11 '25

Social Media UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

https://fortune.com/2025/02/10/unitedhealth-defamation-law-firm-social-media/
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u/capitali Feb 11 '25

It's time for everyone who works for a company using UHC as their insurance to demand a change to a not-for-profit insurance carrier. It would at least be a start. What we need to do is adopt a better stance on human rights and qui denying healthcare is a human right and provided for by a civil and just society to all it's citizens.

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u/Stanley--Nickels Feb 11 '25

Do non-profits provide better care or lower costs? Do you have a link?

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u/capitali Feb 12 '25

No insurance company, UHC or otherwise, has anything to do with providing care. Insurance companies inject administrative overhead and absolutely nothing else. They provide ZERO actual healthcare and are all just leaching off the consumer and the healthcare worker.

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u/Stanley--Nickels Feb 12 '25

They don’t control costs by rationing care? Who do you want to ration care instead?

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u/capitali Feb 13 '25

Every healthcare system, privately insured or otherwise, will have to ration the finite resources that they require.

In our current system the insurance companies have a fiduciary obligation to ration care based first on the profit generated for shareholders. This is the law for corporations in the US.

In a rational system profit would not be a factor at all. First would be the health and wellbeing of the patient. Then in some chosen order or on a case by case basis things like quality of life, availability, long term viability, and possibly cost.

So yes. We would instantly have a better rationing system under pretty much any other model than the capitalistic one we currently have in the US. A not-for-profit insurance would at least not be required to put profit over patient by law.