United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}

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@Pedro

I would like to continue the discussion about healthcare but maybe in another thread.

@wolfpup

No it isn’t, so clearly you don’t get it at all. Every civilized country on the planet provides unconditional universal health care.

Perhaps @puzzlegal’s concurrent thread?

The ethics of health insurance

Continuing the discussion from UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Manhattan [2024-12-04]: So … United healthcare has a very bad reputation, and perhaps that’s true of it. But as best as i can tell, the people who invented the HMO (which i think was related to Kaiser Permanente , the health insurance company) really believed they were going to improve people’s health and save money doing it, by preventing expensive complications. And i kinda think the folks who founded the Blues (the large…