Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.
Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.
United health CEO:
"Alright, the way I see it, we could pay ourselves less absurdly…
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…haha okay just kidding.
Our options are to either kill less people and make less money…
… Haha okay, so that leaves us with “Spend millions on frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to strongarm public dissent.”
[Shareholders cheer]
“Strongarm the public it is!! Who needs the profits when we can use them on power”
Well, what do you want them to do? Pay for the services people pay them for? Kill fewer people? If they did those things their shareholders wouldn’t make as much profit. Their CEO wouldn’t be able to say things like “we guard against unnecessary care” and he wouldn’t be a multimillionaire not even living in North America. He might even have to realize that doctors order care in good faith, so unnecessary care is almost not a real thing.