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.
From denying healthcare, to denying denying healthcare
soon they’ll be denying denying denying healthcare
UnitedHealth came to my house and kicked the fuck out of my dog, and then they took a dump on my TV. I really hate UnitedHealth. I hope the whole piece of land their headquarters sits on slides into the ocean, and personally, I’m so reckless that I wouldn’t even care if a bunch of other buildings nearby got caught up along with it.
Hello, UnitedHealth defamation lawyers? Yes, this post, this one right here.
Are you familiar with the phrase “snitches get stitches”?
Not in this case. Stitches aren’t covered by your insurance.
“Snitches bleed out on the street because they supported a system of poor healthcare”.
Doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Shhhhh5, you’11 wake their hired anesthesia ass assins. If they catch you, you’ll be plugged into the Matrix, except it uses a butt tube 1nstead of the one Neo had in his mouth. 1t’s used to power the C suite’s champagne hot tubs and fetus grinderz.
Well shoot, what’s it going to take to get them to change their ways?
You make a great case, the shell of the idea seems pretty sound. It will be a real slug for some of us though.
Well, shoot.
The answer will blow you away.
I feel like the answer is here somewhere, close at hand.
Universal Healthcare
No amount of CEO assassinations is going to change their behavior.
I’m okay with testing your hypothesis.
There’s a whole risk analysis folder somewhere detailing exactly how many of their CEOs can be killed before it’s not worth insuring them for CEO deaths. It’s just some postmodern dystopian version of The Price is Right.
United health had a teachable moment and they don’t appear to have learned anything.
Damn, imagine if they put this effort into being a less shitty company.
And put the money into saving lives.
United healthcare put a hit out on Brian Thompson and they framed Luigi mangione as a scape-goat because Thompson was too woke
I second or third this.
Thats what I heard, too!
They make profit off of being a useless barrier that prevents customers from accessing money they’ve contributed to use towards their own healthcare. They do nothing of any real value. Their constant profit seeking kills people. Every single administrator in their company is killing people.
Luckily, they won’t come after me because everything I said was true.
UH is not looking for posts like the these. They want to sue the ones that go viral
Who gives a crap what UHC is looking for?
United healthcare runs a death Mill and the CEO tend to torture puppies at their headquarters.
Dispose, seems to be my fav new word to say to CEOs.
I’m starting to understand why Japanese defamation law is so weird.
“the act of unlawfully lowering the societal evaluation, such as the credibility or reputation, of a specific person to an unspecified or broad audience.”
It doesn’t matter if what was conveyed about the “injured” party was true, only that it harmed their reputation.
Can’t wait for our current government to follow suit.
UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company
Whew, better be a big firm. Do you think they can analyze all those posts before the heat death of the universe?
Maybe another Luigi will set em straight 😄
Missing from the title, Clare Locke is the name of the firm
My new job is providing UH. My first thought was, so no healthcare?
You might as well put their Customer Service number in your phone now. If your experience is anything like mine you’ll be spending lots of time
talking toshouting at them.
United Heath would routinely deny payment for the entire visit if my doctor did anything besides look at the initial issue during an appointment. Let’s say I was there for ear pain and my doc said I was due for a vaccination, UHC would deny payment for everything.
I spent many hours on the phone after doctor visits demanding they pay the bills as my policy’s contract required. I wonder how much the UHC crooks made because people just paid the doctor bills and UHC kept money they didn’t earn?
United Health Sucks.
Can one sue an insurance company over denied coverage/breach of contract and ask for like a millionaire compensation?
Seems like if that caught on, they’d be heavily disincentivized from denying coverage. A few high profile cases hitting them in the wallet would go a long way…
UHC denied coverage after the fact for my wife’s gall bladder removal surgery because they claimed she was insured with a other carrier through her previous employer. That got straightened out with a couple phone calls, but it was still ridiculous.
Even more ridiculous, though, was the time that they convinced a former insurer of mine to retroactively deny already-paid claims, on the (false) basis that they had been my primary insurer in that time period, only to then deny those same claims when the doctor resubmitted them on the (correct) basis that I had no active policy with them at the time! I suspect that it was a case of a faulty automated system rather than active malice, but the net result was a massive headache for three unrelated parties and a mind boggling amount of paperwork on my part, because they couldn’t be bothered to write software that could properly handle the same person having two different policies with a gap between them.
IMO when dealing with corporations after they’ve been notified once of a problem like yours, any others that happen because they haven’t fixed their systems are clearly active malice. It is almost certain they’ve been notified of this kind of problem many, many times. It is also almost certain UHC hasn’t fixed anything at all.
Corporations are legal persons but our society and government consistently hold them far lower standards that real persons. They literally murder but don’t face jeopardy from criminal laws, poison people and are met with a slap on the wrist, and enrich themselves while paying only a small fraction of their illegal profits in fines when they’re caught. Can you imagine the penalties if you or I did these things?
The world would be a far better place if UHC was held to the same standards as the people they insure.
