A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health, a Guardian investigation has found.
Those secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a UnitedHealth program that stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes and pushes them to cut care expenses for residents covered by the insurance giant.
In several cases identified by the Guardian, nursing home residents who needed immediate hospital care under the program failed to receive it, after interventions from UnitedHealth staffers. At least one lived with permanent brain damage following his delayed transfer, according to a confidential nursing home incident log, recordings and photo evidence.
Why are we still using .world?
Serious question: why not?
Bootlicking mods
Every time an “eat the rich” topic comes up, the moderators whip out the banhammer. They hide behind some justification about how the cops are toooootaly gonna raid their servers if they aren’t explicitly supportive of oligarchs, but really it’s simple cowardice that shouldn’t be rewarded. Don’t pre-comply with fascists and all that…
- Censorship of anything vaguely left-populist (Luigi for example)
- Mod abuse who will ban users because they don’t wanna handle critcism of themselves (JordanLund)
- Admins/mods have tried to platform dumb ideas, like flat world and transphobia, saying debate is how you win with idiots
- Admins are currently trying to hide that one of their users committed an act of terrorism, and was active until they died https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-20/fire-fascination-with-explosives-family-discord-marked-path-to-clinic-bombing
Watch very carefully for the removal of OP’s post and this comment.
holy shit. i was wondering why that thread got deleted.
and fuck jordanlund. i’m glad there’s a crew actively trying to doxx him. he’s going to get what he deserves for obstructing the movement.
Take your conspiracy hat off. It was removed (twice) because it was crossposted with an altered title and violated rule 4 each time. Also, each time, a mod asked the OP to fix the post title to match the headline and neither complied.
I even re-posted the article with the actual headline this morning: https://lemmy.world/post/30060419
Reminder that he’s openly anti-BLM. And claims he is anti-genocide but has repeatedly removed pro-gaza until recently. Now he just bans users for proving him wrong about his claims about Gaza.
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All current and pensioned government employees should have the same healthcare.
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No government employee should be allowed to pay for private insurance.
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No government employee should be allowed to pay cash for health care.
Three rules that have no direction towards private businesses (freedom!), that if applied, would ensure immediate care for all.
When a former president can’t get treatment, the situation changes.
Make it that all elected officials have to go with the worst-rated insurance provided in any given year, with points 2 and 3. Let’s see how long it takes them to get those plans sorted out.
The issue is that the president and congress already get government-provided healthcare, and it is far above what Medicare provides. We should just require all elected officials to use Medicare with no extra private insurance, and Medicare will get fixed real fucking quick.
You are all saying what I meant, glad to hear I’m not the only one.
Presidents and former presidents already don’t pay for healthcare. They get free government subsidized healthcare for life. The same goes for members of Congress.
We should just get rid of all private insurance and enroll every person in Medicare.
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The 3 Ds. Delay, die, don’t care.
We need a Luigi.
At this point, we need guillotines outside of every exit of every United Health office.
sung to the tune of I need a hero.
my family just rescued an estranged MIL from a UHC nursing home.
They had: not taken her to her doctor’s appointments. not got her out of the bed for 3 weeks. she now needs physical therapy to help her walk again. stolen money from her purse. used her phone for personal calls (the nursing staff).
when we got there, they were trying to get her to sign her power of attorney over to UHC. we had to fight with them to get her out of there and they have denied her insurance claims now citing she was removed against doctor’s orders.
nightmare shit. this probably happens a LOT to people who have no one to advocate for them.
guns, people. guns.
Seems like more of their bosses should be put up for the guillotine
How exactly is this not considered murder for all parties involved in a decision like this?
Because rich people, corporation and the state can kill as they like.
It’s only a crime for use plebs.
Because corporations are considered people for the rights, which allows them to vote in either VT or NH, but they aren’t people for responsibilities, which is why TX hasn’t executed one.
Luigi should get a medal and a statue.
The shot heard round the world part II. Luigi is a hero. At this point anyone working against him are criminals.
850 million medical claims are denied annually by insurance carriers. If even 10% of those are unjustly denied (likely a very low number), then that is 8.5 million people left hurt, suffering, or dead.
We called 11 million deaths a holocaust in WWII. WHAT THE FUCK DO WE CALL OVER 8 MILLION A YEAR? We need to get the “business” out of Healthcare. Luigi had the right of it.
Source showing 8 million deaths per year due to poor coverage/lack of coverage/denied claims:
UNITED health is one of the, if not the worst ONE OUT THERE.
We called 11 million deaths a holocaust in WWII. WHAT THE FUCK DO WE CALL OVER 8 MILLION A YEAR? We need to get the “business” out of Healthcare.
Capitalism.
grant him sainthood.
We all know that “healthcare” companies are rotten scumbags who dont care about the health of individuals, but could The Guardian have identified something by The Guardian to prove by the Guardian that these united healthcare companies were doing something The Guardian thought proved these companies were scumbags by The Guardian? Also, The Guardian.
Seeing a lot of removed by mod posts here, so let me test something (see next comment)
Luigi
What did this say?
To be fair: gomers
These motherfuckers deserve a lot more than 3 bullets.
Sickening.
Fuck insurance companies. They’re literally scamming grandmothers out of healthcare.
May they all live in interesting times.
Any market where choosing not to participate is simply not a viable option should be prohibited from being for-profit.
If all smartphone makers start getting too greedy and charge too much, people will just not upgrade their phones and the smartphone makers will have to lower their prices or justify their higher prices with innovations. People can choose not to participate in the market and pressure the entire industry to lower their prices or create new features to encourage participation.
If insurance starts getting (read: gets even more) greedy, cancelling your insurance isn’t an option, especially if you’re sick. Foregoing insurance means either dying or accumulating extraordinary medical debt you can never repay. There is no pressure on insurance companies to lower their prices because you will always have to pick one of them. As long as they all increase their prices together, they all benefit and their profit keeps going up. Their only “innovations” in the industry are to minimize payments for medical services and maximize how much they shove in their pockets.
For-profit health insurance should be illegal.
There’s a lot of things that shouldn’t be for-profit (ie: affordable housing, food, potable water) but the Reagan/Thatcher trickle-down bs has led Western nations to this point.
If we want change we’re gonna have to fight tooth and nail for it.
This is the future that libertarians have been fighting for for the past century. Congrats Ayn Rand, you won i guess
All insurance is gambling. They are betting that you’ll pay thousands in home insurance or car insurance, and never make a claim, like most people. It’s a good bet for the insurance companies.
But Health Insurance is different. Unlike your house burning down or your car getting wrecked, which seldom if ever happens, EVERYBODY gets sick, and eventually dies. It’s ALWAYS a losing bet for the healthcare insurance companies. They have no choice but to rig the game so they can win.
That’s why we need to forget about Health Care INSURANCE, and think in terms of Health Care MANAGEMENT. That needs to be in the hands of an entity that isn’t motivated by profit, and that’s the government. EVERY other country in the world understands this, but America is a Ferengi nation, and we literally worship profits. And I mean LITERALLY - Prosperity Doctrine is the most powerful religious philosophy in America at the moment.
scam actually, not even gambling. your paying for something that may or may not materialize, the but the thing is someone is always paying for that service , but the ones on top of the schemes are using the money paid by the customers to pay for other customers service. when conservative are taught to screech about, im not paying for someone else medi-caid or care, your doing exactly that with insurance, except its more expensive and there less guarantees.
