UnitedHealth Group shares keep falling, other health insurance stocks follow, as criticism of the industry heats up - eviltoast
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    8 days ago

    One of them already walked back a “we will limit the amount of anaethestic you’re allowed in surgical procedures” they’d announced.

    The market sees that the CEOs fear for their lives and want to make it sound like they care rather than deny care, so profits will fall, because paying for healthcare is a lot more expensive than paying a call centre worker to say no.

    Hence the industry as a whole is less profitable, because, you know, what with death being so unpopular suddenly these days amongst healthcare CEOs.