Health insurance exec quits over industry practices

[@tmm6884]

Today. This afternoon. Literally a few hours ago, my surgeon's office manager called to tell me that my health insurance denied my surgery that was scheduled for TOMORROW. And, I am a cancer patient. This is a life saving surgery. I will die without this hysterectomy. This BS isn't right.

[@guybeingaguy]

You should get right with Jesus. Soon! Don’t pray, it’s a scam.

[@chall3810]

Only in America

[@finnishview2933]

Sound like attempt murder. Can someone sue that insurence company? And kudos to surgeons, anesthesiologist and others who help you.

[@carolynyablon8525]

Thankfully the surgeon & anesthesiologist are donating their time for your surgery. I worked as a cytotechnologist screening pap tests. Best of luck with your surgery.❤️‍🩹

[@Lydirius]

My heart goes out to you. ❤ I honestly feel like you'll be ok. Don't know why, but I do.

[@ypeacock032]

Children erased at school: just another day 1 greedy CEO gone: Terrorism and hysteria

[@louielou6294]

Don’t forget plasma orbs & drones. What a time to be alive.

[@MAGASupremacy]

On average, there is a fatal school shooting every 8-9 days in the United States. Not "every day".

[@thecyrenian5988]

well this isn't really true.. we all know that certain incidents are met with far less scrutiny then other incidents

[@CaptainChaooooos]

The terror is the way the left is praising assassination.

[@dane3038]

They are the only one's freaking out. The right is like "got nothing to say about this". I should know. Check the comments on those sites. The audience not in step with the news on this one. I just wish it didn't have to be this way. But I guess it does.

[@znrctrnn]

Your health shouldn’t be in Wall Street.

[@davidwhite5438]

Luigi is a National Hero. We need more like him. God Bless Luigi

[@BLUVELVET-p5i]

He's ROBIN HOOD AND HE'S A NATIONAL HERO!

[@bioold8925]

Not yet, because nothing has changed yet. They have revved up their expenses for personal security of their top personnel. But not for what such insurances were designed for.

[@tridabalira5992]

Yes yes yes yes the take out money line their pockets while people die. It is shameful

[@Mr.H-zu1jc]

Call me a ‘crazy socialist’ but I don’t think our healthcare should have a profit motive.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

You are NOT crazy. You are a human being.

[@intergalacticspacecanoe4659]

it is fair for a private option to be available, that is and has never been a problem, period. however the word "available" implies the true extent of it all. it should be offered right next to and a "peer" of public option. thats how it is here in the actually free world. not US obviously. its an OPTION in TANGENT to the public option. frustrated by queues? go to a private option. costs a soul but you´ll get service and its always nice.

[@yestohappiness2721]

Yes, they slap a “socialist” label on the idea of universal healthcare, which is crazy because for example Canada and uk are not socialist and they do have free healthcare for all their citizens. No playing the insurance game, no in network vs out of network etc etc

[@fraudsarentfriends4717]

No such thing as a no profit motive.

[@angelbyte0324]

@@fraudsarentfriends4717uh yeah…there is…literally look anywhere else besides the United States the only place in the world where people pay 3x more on average for healthcare that they never receive, maybe open your eyes a little to what healthcare looks like outside of the United States.

[@themisfitmama4397]

Thank you for your sacrifice… Luigi.

[@davidparnell1893]

"Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon his head..."

[@normanoamiebremmer4232]

​He will be found NOT GUILTY!!!​@@davidparnell1893

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Viva Luigi.

[@KingTheRat]

Free Luigi!

[@TruthSeeker-z1t]

He gave up his freedom, wealth/inheritance for a bigger cause. Earth is unjust but If there's a Heaven he will be eternally rewarded.

[@katk1958]

I don't understand how all those people who work for the health insurance companies sleep at night. That's a LOT of people without a conscience! 😣

[@sydneyevans2637]

The people that make those decisions never meet the patients. They are accountants and their bread and butter come from cutting costs.

[@kyleolson9636]

I work for a non-profit member owned health insurance company, and I'm proud of it. I'd rather there be a single payer option, but until that day comes, I'm glad none of my efforts go towards corporate profit.

[@GuardianOfUltima]

They will all sleep soundly after being hauled before a judge for what they've done to the american people.

[@ss-on7my]

This country was founded on people not having a conscience, - slave labor, chains, and shackles, whips.

[@awworrell]

The day to day workers are probably just doing what they are told. In my experience working in corporate America, no matter how many times companies say they want feedback they really only care about people doing what they are told to do. The executives and decision makers are the ones without a conscience.

[@madelainebeaute]

I am so glad someone is taking accountability and addressing the truth about how insurances treat all of us.

[@kimsold22]

He needs to write a book about the crooks

[@unavailable753]

@@kimsold22 He has written books about the crooks. He quit his CEO job in 2008 and has been lobbying for healthcare reform since, including supporting the ACA and testifying in Congress against industry practices. The people in the comments who suggest he is speaking out only because he is afraid could at least look him up on Wikipedia.

[@teescoffee5689]

@@kimsold22he did

[@monolithic3563]

This needs to stop. We need universal healthcare immediately

[@actionforanimals4862]

Absolutely!! I agree 100%.

[@TherealPeekaboo-007]

Communist healthcare is worse. We need to get to how it was in the 1980's and 1990's.

[@jacquecastle3233]

UH.. THAT'S 1000X WORSE.. THERE BE NO CONTROL OVER DOCTOR CHOICES..I WORKED AT CIGNA ALSO.. PLUS THERE WOULD BE NO ONE TO WATCH DOC MISTAKES.. IT WOULD BE EASY TO HIDE.. ALSO TOO MANY DEI DOCTORS RIGHT NOW..

[@MereAYT]

With dental and vision, because teeth and eyes shouldn't be considered luxury items.

[@ericanderson8795]

Our doctors get paid so much more than in counties with universal

[@Cromose]

American Healthcare is a scam 😮😢smh 🤦

[@tinasimkins8006]

Agreed! Why do so many Americans vote against their best interests?

[@VeeAmericanEagle]

True stuff 😢

[@daveweinberger2021]

@@tinasimkins8006 Cuz we’re really stupid. It’s actually quite sad.

[@jenniferconley9591]

So ready for these corrupt insurance companies to face their karma . I had to see a dermatologist a few yrs back to have a mole removed… Insurance wouldn’t cover after they claimed it was cosmetic … They made it out to sound like I had gotten a boob job … Don’t even get me started on the impacted wisdom tooth I had to have removed from a oral surgeon . I couldn’t imagine being deathly sick like others and getting denied.

[@OSnoopySnoop1]

@@Cromose THEN SUFFER

[@troyrucker2659]

If I could afford healthcare, I wouldn’t need insurance!!!

[@lcastillo2699]

Unfortunately, millionaires and billionaires are the only ones who can. That's why these health insurance companies don't care about average people like us. Even though we pay the monthly premiums for getting peace of mind thinking if the unthinkable happens we have insurance to help us. We the people are wrong about that.

[@o4saken1]

^ this man went straight to the point. Thanks Troy.

[@007Zoltar]

That's the whole idea!!!

[@kimberlyk1876]

ITS ALL ABOUT GREED ITS NOT FOR THE PEOPLE

[@BaverlyDelgado]

So True 👍

[@mytruthbekind5793]

When does greed end? When is there enough or sufficiency? It never happens. If you’re empty inside then that is not a money problem.

[@OSnoopySnoop1]

@@kimberlyk1876 SO DON'T GET HEALTH INSURANCE THEN & SUFFER 🤔😏

[@EDUARDO-bj9wf]

LUIGI IS 1000 YEARS AHEAD TO OUR TIME

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Luigi is a million times better than any CEO or American politician.

[@phillipblair9511]

Are you saying that American families have a right to defend themselves with lethal force? I prefer Dr MLK Jr's way, but they assassinated him.

[@jamesniagu274]

Literally no exaggeration here

[@AS-eq2qm]

I appreciate him speaking out. #Bravo

[@Ericmwangii]

Speaking out! Give me a fvcking break, the guy fears for his life.

[@TheChildfreeCurlyGirl]

He'll be found unalived soon...that's what's been happening to whistle blowers in America.

[@pirateofpacific]

The private health insurance system itself needs to be abolished and replaced by the Govt paid system without any middle man. My wife worked for Prudential Insurance long ago but left because the company told employees to not pay claims and lie to customers that they never received their claims, etc, even if their claim papers are right there . Her conscience didn't allow to continue at such a place, and she left. I myself have experienced this from Noridian, which is contracted by Medicare to pay claims. After my getting cancer, Noridian denied ab tests, saying they were medically not necessary, and I ended up paying $1200 to Quest in spite of me and my oncologist writing appeals to Noridian. Noridian even denied UCSF payments for procedure for my back pain by finding loopholes.

[@user-di2on5gl2d]

Good for him. I admire his courage and integrity!

[@piphuntington2233]

Was Luigi right? They're talking about how change is needed, the vile practices they partake in....and if he didn't do what he did no one would be talking. Based on that alone he should be exonerated. I really think they're going to have a hard time getting a jury to convict him. I wouldn't.

[@chichk2]

Health care needs to be between patients and doctors, PERIOD!

[@HighVelocityPhilosophy]

Prior authorization can be deadly

[@damham5689]

Even with prior authorization they some times deny the claim after the procedure has happened and leave the patient holding the entire bill.

[@christopherjohns1566]

Can? How about is?

[@pirateofpacific]

And without prior authorization you end up paying bills because Healthcare provider will go after you for unpaid bills. Before providing any service, they take your signature for financial responsibility.

[@playtagwithasemi]

your comment section has been expressing this very frustration for two weeks and you guys have continuously strawmanned us and brushed us off, but now you suddenly take it seriously because it's coming from someone in the C-Suite. Get real.

[@djbdjb-yz3ys]

It is sad days in America! It takes an assassination to have these kind of conversations!!

[@Savalatte]

People have protested, complained, suffered, voted, etc. for so long with no meaningful result so when the MEDIA put a real spotlight on the assassination of a Healthcare CEO . . . let's say opportunity knocks.

[@PeterLawton]

True. But I hope we get more than talk. I hope we get results.

[@mamajes26]

“Prior Authorization” the new insurance gotcha.

[@SAKILE1]

LUIGI IS A MARTYR💔🙏

[@phillipblair9511]

Luigi Mangione = Aaron Bushnell

[@user-di2on5gl2d]

Like the saints of the past. Were martyred before declared saint for their courage and integrity!

[@robertm7120]

We Deserve so much better than this! We are constantly being lied to and ripped off! It's about time we take a stand and force some much needed changes on the system!

[@rsu5327]

Preach! It's refreshing to hear Mr. Potter sharing his executive experience & insights to the criminally corrupt health care company's.

[@AbigailRTeh]

Don't just resign. Expose them.

[@gs8527]

FREE LUIGI!!!

[@ExtraIceNat]

Bringing the harm the insurance companies have done to the vulnerable to light!!!! When ppl speak up, change happens!!! 🎉

[@MaijaKarklins]

People have been speaking up for decades.

[@indiahmayfaire9878]

Not when the political party of money uber alles is in power.

[@tmm6884]

@@MaijaKarklins Well, they're hearing us now.

[@annahiven3912]

Yeah sure didn’t happen with women’s healthcare. These politicians are bought and paid for and will never vote for healthcare changes.

[@HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx]

Scrooge had to have three nightmares before he came to his senses ☝️

[@markoreilly3414]

Yes , using the "it wasn't me" defence"! Talk about PANIC MODE !!!! Filthy GRUB made his money, now running SCARED 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hear the FEAR in his voice ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bernardkealey6449]

He quit in 2008, testified to Congress against insurance practices in 2009, and has been advocating against the industry ever since

[@stevenmiller820]

Luigi is the ghost of Christmas present

[@phillipblair9511]

A lot of people don't know, but when you translate Osama bin Laden from Arabic to English, you get Brian Thompson.

[@HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx]

@ Holy shit 🥺

[@carpediemarts705]

There are thousands of people who are equipped to provide State's Witness. We need people like him to crack the wall.

[@themissingsock2437]

We need healthcare in the USA, not health insurance that denies us care.

[@pn4640]

Honestly if Luigi didn’t do what he needed to do, you Americans would have continued with this insurance BS. One young man from a country of hundreds of millions of people, sacrificed himself for all…God bless Luigi

[@o4saken1]

THIS is what we need more of!!!! Thank you, sir. You have my respect.

[@pauldietzmann5610]

A doctor makes half million a year A ceo of a health insurance company makes millions

[@hanac5751]

and the minimum wage is...???

[@phillipblair9511]

Medical doctor's groups lobby to limit the number of medical schools, to inflate costs. So they have money to pay for endangered species hunts in Africa.

[@phillipblair9511]

Medical doctor's groups lobby to limit the number of medical schools and medical students, to inflate costs.

[@phillipblair9511]

They lost a recent battle in the state of Washington, where they were trying to prevent WSU from opening a medical school.

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

That needs to be reversed.

[@ApocalypseFox]

CEOs afraid for their lives...kind of puts us all on equal ground. It is scary thinking that another person might be in charge of whether you live or die. I guess we will all have to be scared together until they change their ways.

[@FirstyPaul]

Luigi opened a can of worms that’s why they are so angry

[@daleaylesworth2803]

Seems that one man has changed what decades of politicians couldn’t do through legislation and lobbying. One man has brought attention to the corruption and corporate greed that has lead to the deaths of millions due to unethical business practices. Sorry my empathy is pre-existing and not recognized,considered or covered by these Insurance executives and the Companies they control! I don’t condone violence just pointing out the obvious, that our elected leaders could have and should have done more.

[@karenquismundo-fuhrmann7805]

It is very hard to comprehend when patients are denied by their health care when in the first place they are paying for it. I had a hysterictomy at 40 because of a very huge myoma. I hope you will get the treatment you needed...

[@beverlysowa9905]

CNN, you’re about a week too late reading your audience.

[@sherri.]

If change comes, we owe it all to Luigi.

[@eddieohearn17]

Keyword … investors. Once you have people that invest in a company, they expect to make a profit a payback and that’s what drives the corrupt healthcare system that we have in the United States. Of course, the excessive payments out to executives is also one of the reasons that healthcare is so expensive. You can see this also in pharmaceutical industry.

[@marklowe8087]

Every time I get off the plane back in Australia I feel like kissing the ground.i have a loved one received first class succesful cancer treatment treatment as a public patient. One can understand the anger in the US,watching loved ones die ,insurance not now worth a pinch of shit.

[@ccsdk]

Medicare for All .... NOW!

[@pirateofpacific]

Medicare exploits the same tactic by contracting out private third parties to pay claims. Only mission of third parties is to cut down Medicare cost by delaying and denying payment. After my cancer treatment, one type of blood cell became very high, and my oncologist ordered molecular test to rule out leukemia and Noridian , one of the Medicare appointed contractors denied claim saying it was medically mot necessary. They refused to pay claim e en after my oncologist and myseld writing appeal. So I ended up paying bill to Quest lab. Just a few months ago, Noridiam again did not pay UCSF for doing the procedure on my back by finding some loopholes, which are hard for us to understand.

[@giambi1980]

I sincerely do not understand how Americans let this happen!?!?!? The US should learn from Europe and give everybody universal health care for everybody! America will regret it's choices!

[@PeterLawton]

As an American, what did I do wrong? I never voted for this. I've ranted about it until family has heard it all. What did I do wrong?

[@TheSalinski]

How much of every dollar taken in by the health insurance companies is paid out? Google says "Insurance companies must spend at least 80% of premium dollars on medical care" but it doesn't sound like that is actually happening if the companies are motivated to deny more and more claims.

[@KMx108]

I remember one year BCBS was required to send me a tiny reimbursement check because they had collected too much in premiums. Apparently, they took steps to make sure that never happened again.

[@rebeccagray2443]

My son had this insurance. He has M.S. He could not even get seen by a neurologist or any of the medications he needed to manage his health.

[@guybeingaguy]

That’s a shame.

[@hepcat5199]

We don’t need health insurance. WE NEED UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE FOR ALL. WE NEED TO END FOR PROFIT HEALTHCARE!!!!

[@phillipblair9511]

Abolish medical racketeering, now.

[@leahgary1107]

The health care system has had issues for years. We tried to fix it a little bit with the ACA but Republicans didn't like it, they thought it was too socialist. However countries like Canada for example have healthcare for everyone and nobody is denied. Some of these insurance companies are denying claims for services that they claim to cover when people sign up with them. It's just ridiculous. People in Denmark are very happy but they got what Americans would call socialized healthcare. Perhaps if Americans got over their fears about socialized health care then America might be doing as good as Canada, Sweden, Denmark, the UK...etc. Just a thought. 🤷‍♀️🌻

[@raywhitehead730]

And yet you have ACA. You got what you wanted, but still.Not satisfied.

[@raywhitehead730]

So all those countries you listed, deny healthcare by some mechanism.

[@leahgary1107]

@raywhitehead730 In some states, they don't have aca the same way other states do.🤷‍♀️

[@leahgary1107]

@raywhitehead730 They don't deny health care in those countries. 🙄🤦‍♀️

[@samanthaw4955]

And New Zealand 🇳🇿....has free Healthcare 🎉

[@sharvo6]

These insurance companies are practicing medicine without a license.

[@denniss9718]

They’re not practicing medicine, they’re just taking your cash in exchange for your demise.

[@phillipblair9511]

It's illegal to practice medicine without a license.

[@sharvo6]

@phillipblair9511 duh

[@or6913]

@@denniss9718 I think the commenter meant that because they (the insurance companies) do as they wish, against doctors' orders, then they are practicing medicine, as they are overruling the physician.

[@denniss9718]

@@or6913, insurance companies prefer profit over medical care. If they couldn’t make a profit, they wouldn’t be in business. Unfortunately, they are profiting at the expense of many people’s health and wellbeing. And yes, while insurance companies may employ medical professionals, they are not your physician and are putting profits ahead of health.

[@Cettywise]

My mans like, "They out here killing people foo' I'M DONE!" 😂

[@SWOTHDRA]

Forreal

[@tinyshepherdess7710]

How can these CEOs look themselves in the mirror when they know their profits are built on human suffering. Shameful!

[@kenvalenti5414]

We can blame this on our legal system as well.

[@ГригорийБедник-л4в]

This is the most mystrious thing to me. No video explains how did it happen that these companies became unaccountable

[@phillipblair9511]

Only because our 8th Amendment is not being upheld.

[@VinhLe-ee6em]

Put those in charge for Health insurance company liable or prison so they can do what's right for American.

[@tropkitty13]

Same with our legislators taking bribes from the corrupt healthcare system. This has to stop

[@carl0taejoaquim]

This is lobbied, legal and bureaucratic mass murder fueled by money... I'm glad for us in Europe healthcare is a human right provided by government (you can chose private if you want. Still, its affordable). For us Care is provided according to need and urgency. So any life threatening or extremely painful condition you´re rushed to the hospital and taken care immediately, for any non urgent surgery like cataract or meniscus surgery you will probably have to wait a while. You can do periodic check-ups with your family doctor that will prescribe you a set of exams according to your age and gender or to any discomfort that you feel, all covered by National Health System or with a insignificant co-pay (like 15 dollars for an MRI). This will make possible early detection of serious illnesses like cancer, and make your chances of survival much higher. None of this is dependent of your wealth. Long live "socialized" healthcare! (in Europe big cooperations are also lobbying to end or reduce NHS but we are not getting fooled and politicians know that) Good Luck America!

[@VelvetJazz]

Speaking from years of US healthcare experience- people do not seek treatment until it’s too late, they *die* to avoid bankruptcy/ homelessness. The US for-profit health insur system *rations* care through high deductibles, delays and denials that fatten their profit margin; they deprive people of the care they paid for with their premiums. Healthcare needs to be a govt-administered *service* not “insurance” because unlike other insur, hc is needed routinely, not just for more rare emergencies/ accidents/ natural events. We are the *only* democratic, industrialized country without some version of universal healthcare! Don’t fall for private health insur co’s scare tactics and propaganda. View the public data online- univ hc has better outcomes, greater longevity than US.

[@JMB-ch8vj]

My wife’s mother needed chemo she died before her pre authorization.

[@margotrosendorn6371]

"Industry practices" my ass. He's trying to take the target off his back.

[@tobeboom]

It is not just healthcare! It is every warranty company, every auto insurance company, every home insurance company, every health insurance company. Businesses are so busy over charging insurance and warranty companies they don’t even care if they get consumer business. You can’t even get an estimate on your roof anymore, “just have your insurance company contact me.” That is driving the prices through the roof. We could cut prices in half if people took bids again and presented their best offers. They are paying double and triple the cost to these contractors and companies. Auto dealers are raking the warranty companies, so obviously they are trying to deny everything they can while also still raking in huge profits. The game is collect that money and don’t give it back. It’s not insurance, it is a for profit billionaire dollar industry. Period!!

[@jessicajason79]

💯

[@jessicajason79]

It’s all a scam

[@HeatherEvans-p1i]

❤👆🏼

[@TheRealJade-y]

Free Luigi!! Send these CEOs to prison for life!

[@janisolson1013]

Does anyone remember when Sarah Palin coined the term "DEATH PANELS"? Welcome to Healthcare in America, folks!

[@JHe-f9t]

Palin was paid to misdirect you. She said the death panels were in the government. They were actually in the private health insurance companies the whole time.

[@Fancypants117]

"I am now leaving over "industry practices" but also cashing out a massive payout for myself to profit off these "industry practices" CNN try REALLY hard to make rich people not look so evil

[@mobilityvehicleconsultant7166]

How long has he been on the industry? Why didn’t he speak up years ago. Now people are running scared and trying to save their own bacon. Put in a government health care system and watch the private so called health care companies collapse.

[@BMotz-ym1fn]

He has been speaking up for many years.

[@bernardkealey6449]

He quit 16 years ago

[@jamestemple8970]

A 5 second search would answer your questions.

[@VeeAmericanEagle]

He’s been spewing up about this

[@missn2021]

This does not happen in Africa. If you have medical insurance you are actually safe. This is frightening.

[@IIlvllI]

Since when is health insurance part of the "healthcare industry" we wouldn't say State Farm is a big player in the automotive industry.

[@lilypudd]

But they are. They all work in tandem. One affects the other.

[@tenorly]

Sad - but true: Luigi has *already* done more to reform healthcare in the U.S. than any president since LBJ (and without having to invade Vietnam).

[@sarielizard1]

I have cigna and its a nightmare.

[@ryanburchett8455]

All insurance companies are a evil.

[@sep1364-l3d]

No one in the streets feels "terrorized" by Luigi only executives like this one that would rather quit than to do the "change". If he truly had cared he would have stayed and not run like a coward using the power he had as an executive. Guess his health is important to him too and felt intimidated after someone like Thompson lost his. But all the money he must have taken...will he give it back to help the sick patients 🤔. Yet he is now talking bad behind their backs.

[@wandab3843]

Prior authorization is evil.

[@CSIS-Spy]

Retired before he gets assassinated . A homeless woman who lost her home now for cancer treatment denied by insurance sold her home to pay her bills and then became bankrupt and homeless. Thank God she is alive while the insurance industry is making record profits and bonuses. This is the definition of evil This is a good man for opening up and leaving an evil organization. There is a special place in hell for them

[@meganwilliams905]

So now you have a backbone? Such performative BS

[@d.b.cooper1]

Not really, he's been doing this for the past 15 years or so & is well known for his advocacy work. It's a lot better when someone senior quits than a junior who no one will listen to

[@shanzhi3184]

Prior authorization 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I despise that term.

[@JeanPhillips-p9h]

Thank you for doing what is right.

[@markadams5823]

Nothing's going to change anytime soon at least the next 4 years

[@jaggillar6680]

The "skin in the game" idea has crept into Medicare. Even though most retirees rely on Social Security alone, literally thousands of dollars are expected from seniors every year. Medicare and SS with savings used to be enough.

[@bengoey]

Another big problem for the US is the cost of medication. How come the cost for weight loss injection is over $1000 in the US and costs approx £130 in the UK and similar price in the EU ? Something wrong there !

[@sfl6306]

LETS TALK ABOUT BIDEN’s accomplishments because you never push Biden’s accomplishments which we don’t want Trump to take credit for

[@alexyoungberg5232]

Drama gets more clicks

[@borisjohnson5985]

Biden's accomplishment is choosing his favorite flavor of ice cream.

[@thecyrenian5988]

shutting down the Alaskan pipeline was his biggest accomplishment in that first few months.. and I guess ww3? ..oh! and pardoning a drug dealer that was a member of a big Wsupremacist organization!

[@RBS314]

Like what?

[@v.l.963]

The genocide???

[@Tiffsolstice]

Thank you. I’m 52 and I could swear it didn’t used to be like this. Thank u for being a good human and having stopped participating in the killing business-US health care.

[@MrBadgas]

All healthcare should be privately run non profits.

[@GotoHere]

Most health insurers are non profit. Fake news CNN would never tell the sheep that fact.

[@pirateofpacific]

Are you out of your mind? Private non-profit is just the label they use. Jeff Bezos, Trump and many millionaires paid zero taxes or e en got millions back from IRS because they did not show profit on paper. We need fully govt sponsored healthcare without any middleman.

[@PQ190]

How long did he work for health insurance companies before quitting now that a CEO has been shot and killed. I suspect many years if he was a VP and now he has a conscience. 🤯

[@tinasimkins8006]

We need a public option for non-profit healthcare. Vote blue next time you get the chance.

[@mgc7199]

You're objecting to the symptoms of a larger problem. Your government is not by and for the people. The problem is institutionalised greed + corruption (lobbyism), a lack of accountability and a press owned by the same people who own most of the politicians you think voting for achieves something despite decades of evidence of the contrary. All the safeguards to guarantee the democracy your founding fathers envisions have been corrupted. You need to see to Thomas' Tree.

[@Melpheos1er]

Looks like he doesn't want to get his life policy cancelled

[@jacquecastle3233]

❤ U WENDELL.. I AM ALSO AN EX EMPLOYEE OF THAT COMPANY.. PS. HE IS ONLY SPEAKING SMALL BIT.. OH DOCTORS COVER FOR INSURANCE OR THEY DON'T GET PAID OR BONUS.. 😊😊 ACTUALLY ALSO FOR ONCE I CAN SAY GREAT REPORTING.. U GOT FACTS CORRECT.. I PROUD OF U GUYS.. I KNEW U COULD DO IT.. DIG MORE ALSO.. LOTS MORE SECRETS.. 😗😁🎉

[@greggpon7466]

Why did CNN not cover the story about the death f a teenager when it happened?

[@applehead252]

If the hospitals were cheaper perhaps we could get rid of insurance? That’s what I do now and it’s working for me so far . 50-70% discount I get for writing a check and no co pay because I don’t have insurance! If I get hit by a bus I have a problem but I don’t intend on doing so .

[@AlleneQuincy]

Finally!! There are other incredible nurses and doctors who are going viral w similar stories on KZbin yall should bring them in!!!

[@marshawhite2670]

CNN look at VITAMIN D. I have been getting a prescription for Vitamin D because I have a low Vitamin D count. Now my PCP tells me that taking this is no longer available for prescription. Insurance said there are no benefits!!!!

[@guybeingaguy]

You should eat foods that have a lot of vitamin D. Duh! Not everything comes in an easy to swallow pill ‘ya know. Just damn.

[@katiechapman277]

You can buy vit d at the store...don't need a script

[@or6913]

@@katiechapman277 True. But when you need as high a dose as those of us need, it gets expensive really fast to have to take so many vitamin D pills in one day. When it was sold through prescription, they were extremely high doses, and only the regular co-pay, which was a fraction of what it costs to buy in huge quantities over the counter.

[@or6913]

@@guybeingaguy Some people with vitamin D deficiency are so extremely deficient, due to they way their body does/doesn't process it, that no amount of foods high in Vit D are enough. Only prescription strength pills do the trick.

[@or6913]

Same.

[@devilpupbear09]

Fear led him to resign, not his conscious

[@MAGASupremacy]

Wendell Potter's net worth; $478 million as of 2024. I think we found out why he really resigned. LMAO!!!!!!!!

[@SWOTHDRA]

Yup

[@VeeAmericanEagle]

I quit awhile ago tho

[@MAGASupremacy]

@@VeeAmericanEagle But you worked at Pizza Hut as a "chef". Not the same.

[@d.b.cooper1]

This is a blatant lie, the most senior he ever got in his career was Senior VP of communications, that's not a 7 figure role.

[@MAGASupremacy]

@@d.b.cooper1 prove it.

[@lynettejohnson5376]

Anyone noticing this is starting to fall from the front pages already? So what has to happen to keep it front page?

[@lets-be-real7919]

So much corruption

[@TKOin2life]

It is cheaper to move overseas for years and get healthy than to pay for one surgery.😢

[@Myownboss35]

Free Luigi

[@lynbee47]

There needs to be a National Health alternative to commercial for-profit healthcare. Fundamental healthcare should be similar to fundamental education -publicly funded, publicly available to everyone. Mind you, those who are in the publicly funded system will have to accept long wait times for non urgent afflictions, but properly triaged cases will get appropriate treatment as quickly as necessary. Public healthcare will make extensive use of mid-level providers for primary care, and access to specialists will be restricted. However those who can afford it (or get a good benefit package from their employer) can go private, avoiding long waits and seeing a physician instead of a nurse/PA. This would change the way insurance companies operate too, since many poorer and sicker people would be serviced by National Healthcare. Taxes may have to go up to cover this, however that depends on the will of representatives to stop funding other things (like pork attachments to spending bills), “buying Greenland”, wasteful government spending on the military industrial complex. So everyone could be covered for basic healthcare needs (but triaged), the elites could still buy private insurance and enjoy short waits plus unrestricted access to physicians/ specialists (like they do now with private schools).

[@joeschneider8025]

That's sick if that's what it takes to bring Awareness To overprice Drugs

[@tropkitty13]

I don’t want my insurance tied to my job. I’m also angry that the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) minimal reform was rejected by the incoming administration. No one voted for Musk. He shouldn’t have had the power to kill the budget and whatever changes he’s going to force our elected officials to do. This isn’t right.

[@beyondresearch8042]

APPLAUSE for this ex-executive for coming out and sharing the BS that passes for a sickening reality. Meanwhile the govt is sticking their head in the sand

[@serendipity9649]

Your government (at least a certain political party) has been trying to help Americans get rid of your healthcare system, but the American people keep voting against their own best interests. It is going to take, at minimum, a nationwide uprising of the the majority of Americans demanding change in the public sphere. Republicans are the ones pushing for the status quo, feeding you the same bootstrap mentality and you keep repeating that old mantra, "i ain't going to pay for someone else's healthcare.

[@kimsold22]

I havent heard any of them comment on it 🤡

[@stefan2796]

Profit is OK, corporate greed isn't. Especially when it about health care.

[@curtismuise3300]

This is old news. Other main stream media already had him on. Late much.

[@Ilovechickpeas]

How many thousands of people died at the hands of the United Health CEO?