UnitedHealthcare CEO

Privatized Healthcare Is Violence By Way Of A Pen

An insurer’s duty to defend (‘Dispute’) the claim is broader than its duty to indemnify

Every year millions of Americans are negatively affected by unnecessarily selfish and callous healthcare insurance practices. On average upwards of 45,000 Americans die every single year as a result of being denied healthcare. Data shows that over 62% of Americans have been bankrupted by medical debt.

It’s not difficult for any of us to envision a gut-wrenching scenario where a loved one, or us for that matter, is denied care because the health insurance company demanded that we pay them more money — much more than what was agreed upon initially — to save our lives with medication and treatment the company can easily afford.

To demonstrate this violence let’s consider a scenario where the late CEO Brian Thompson arrives at the hospital breathing, as a regular non-CEO client of UnitedHealthcare — a company that boasts the highest claim denial rate;

+ He would have been denied critical care if he hadn’t met his deductible

+ He would have been denied care for not being shot at the right location a.k.a near an in-network hospital