In the wake of the brutal murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, there has been an outpouring of stories about UnitedHealthcare’s strategy of denying claims to increase profits.
ProPublica wrote about a mother in Louisiana who counted on UHC to pay the cost of behavioral therapy for her autistic son. The therapy offered promise of helping him learn necessary skills. But UHC, which made $16 billion in profits last year, denied the claim.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Not to side with UHC (and I’d question whether this played into their decision), but ABA is widely regarded by autistic people and their allies as abusive because it strives to control the behavior to make autistic people merely seem not autistic rather than actually address their needs. https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/controversy-autisms-common-therapy/
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Do you think the CEO of UHC a serial killer himself disguised as a business man?
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There is a difficult problem associated with healthcare. Sooner of later, your own perception of it comes down to how much you want to live and problematic living is for the patient. I’d it better for the patient—yourself or a loved one—to live or to die. There will inevitably be disagreements between people and the entity that helps make those difficult decisions. If that entity is a government, and there is no choice about who makes the decision, it will cause people to mistrust their government.
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WHAT ABOUT CORPORATE MURDER?
There has been a torrent of media hand-wringing over the murder of a health insurance industry executive, and the murder was indeed just that: An awful crime.
Yet, as shown in the vast public reaction to the incident, there is widespread outrage over the lack of reporting on the millions of stories of people who have died because they were unjustifiably denied vital health care by insurance companies which employ armies of minions whose salary depends on how many claims they deny.
Corporate murder for profit happens every day, and there is no media frenzy over it.
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