Shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO sparks anger against health insurance industry

The shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO brought a torrent of public reaction, including anger at the healthcare system itself. Host Segun Oduolowu speaks with reporter Jessica Bartlett and STAT chief investigative reporter for data & technology Casey Ross for more insight into how Americans experience their healthcare.

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[shinnyshin]

Thank you for being one of the only news organizations covering this side of the issue. I've spent most of the last year with Anthem trying to kill my husband by denying medical necessity for lifesaving treatment, only giving us higher opiate doses to endure the pain as his body fell apart. We finally talked them down from hundreds of thousands to our entire savings + my cancer patient dad's retirement money. We might go medically homeless in 2025 as Anthem keeps misfiling its paperwork to draw out the appeal cycle. I've had no practical recourse beyond spending 10-20h on the phone every week begging Anthem in appeals not to force him to die. The people profiting from this should be in prison.

[yveeriksson]

What sparks the anger, is that the healthcare insurance companies is even worse than people thought. And one of the companies turns out to be extremely greedy and careless.

[blevins-share]

one CEO lost life and goverment spent resource to find the person faster than when a common person is shoot. Then we see these CEO that are just people robbing the common person and then killing them when they get sick. Same on the goverment, people hinding behind companies, and us for by into the lies. This is our country, this is about our lives, and at some piont we need to stop giving these people money when they are not doing the right thing. For this reason no one should be punished for one CEO's life being taken and the system needs to be fixed were life comes before goods.

[lucianomezzetta]

It is not nuanced. It is not complicated. The issue is simple: when will the ruling class of America stop worshipping wealth!? And that includes the media.

[onetruecalling]

The money goes into the pockets of a few rich CEO's

[ZachX]

A wise man in Star Wars once said:

*"Good. Let the hate flow through you."*

[polluxtroy]

*IT IS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO STAND TOGETHER AGAINST CORRUPT CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT*
_We should not have to live this way_

[DougGrinbergs]

U.S.A. Uncle Sam's AmeriCare: healthcare where and when you need, Uncle Sam pays the bills - expanded, enhanced MedicareForAll 🖖

[kenvaughan]

Insurance companies have been taking advantage of many since the government has required that we have car insurance

[randypalmer]

One side of this argument is "Violence is only permitted by authorized agencies.",
Authorized agencies include, government, Healthcare Insurance companies, police, ..not Luigi