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yardwork

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15. That's just... awful.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 05:06 PM

Dec 5

It makes me wonder how many desperate people voted for Trump or don't vote at all because the system is so broken.

Something's got to give.

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Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO [View all] Xolodno Dec 5 OP

Kick dalton99a Dec 5 #1

"Discount Care Clinic" soandso Dec 5 #5

That is brilliant and like all great satire, achingly true. yardwork Dec 5 #6

UHC is one of the reasons the mental health delivery system was destroyed. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #7

That's the reddit post? That is brilliantly savage. Hekate Dec 5 #18

Killer Satire bikes and bunnies Dec 5 #35

We medical providers are sick of the health insurance scammers' shit. Aristus Dec 5 #2

I had my monthly appointment with a MH therapist today. yardwork Dec 5 #8

I worked in the mental health field for 40 years. UHC is truly evil. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #10

That's just... awful. yardwork Dec 5 #15

Perhaps a few thousand of us ought to begin showing up at investors meetings Magoo48 Dec 5 #40

Some days I spent more time on the phone with insurance companies than seeing patients. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #9

Are you a doctor?? The two most egregious things about insurance are lostnfound Dec 6 #41

Yes I was a clinician in the mental health field. Irish_Dem Dec 6 #44

My psychiatrist said she wished all of the bad ones Ilsa Dec 5 #26

Xolodno............. Upthevibe Dec 5 #3

They can be sent some scolds Prairie Gates Dec 5 #4

Lol!! XanaDUer2 Dec 5 #29

My question is, where were the regulators? malaise Dec 5 #11

The insurance lobby owns them dalton99a Dec 5 #12

Precisely malaise Dec 5 #13

And just like many regulated industries the industries write the freakin regulations and hand them to the regulators Cheezoholic Dec 5 #36

Corporations are the new monarchs malaise Dec 5 #38

+1 leftstreet Dec 5 #14

I work in the Property & Casualty Insurance Industry... Xolodno Dec 5 #39

My god, this has really exploded. Mike 03 Dec 5 #16

They're as intimately involved with UH's parasitic shenanigans as anyone. paleotn Dec 5 #22

If she has original Medicare with a supplement Demobrat Dec 5 #24

Have you come across the thread where someone said about the murdered CEO soldierant Dec 5 #28

We should all have the health coverage (free) that representatives, senators and "high" officials have. usonian Dec 5 #17

Delay it long enough take you into 2025 so you have to meet your deductible all over again LizBeth Dec 5 #19

LOL! I may not have a choice! Xolodno Dec 5 #32

Wow. I did not realize how despised UHC was ecstatic Dec 5 #20

I suspect that if this guy worked for BCBS or Demobrat Dec 5 #25

UHC does have the highest percentage of denied claims of all the big insurers, though Prairie Gates Dec 5 #27

Well be careful berksdem Dec 6 #45

Interesting that many doctors obviously Meowmee Dec 5 #21

now that he's gone PedroXimenez Dec 5 #23

Or get more security. Demobrat Dec 5 #30

So glad I was able to switch to original Medicare for 2025 Hassler Dec 5 #31

We went from a G plan to F. Emile Dec 5 #33

That's me. Missed F cutoff by 2 months Hassler Dec 5 #34

Reddit also deletes threads by pro-lifers that celebrate the murder or harming of Doctors who may hav perfomed abortion. Jacson6 Dec 5 #37

reddit is on fire over UHC story BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 6 #42

butbutbut people are on waiting lines in canada. usa is so stupid. pansypoo53219 Dec 6 #43