• Taco2112@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Kevin Gade, COO at investment firm Bahl & Gaynor, which owns about 2.6% of UnitedHealth shares, said companies like UnitedHealth play an important role in providing critical and needed care for all patients within an inefficient U.S. healthcare system that needs to evolve.

    Kevin Gade left out the important part, it’s the bullshit insurance companies that make the system inefficient. There is literally no role, critical or otherwise, for Insurance companies when it comes to matters of healthcare. Why do I need to talk to an insurance company? Let my doctor, the hospital, and myself make those decisions. Not some Executive Oligarch on the quest for more money.

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      Single-payer, government run healthcare is protection for the people, and therefore, democracy.

      Government is supposed to be the insurance company we all invest in to guarantee the continuation of civilization in a way that benefits us all.

      Demand the end of private health insurance and eliminate biased access to medical care.