United Healthcare Scandal | The Ugly Truth About US Healthcare

There comes a time when people have to wake up from decades of indoctrination and realize that we have helped the greedy corporations into its current predatory form by constantly stating the myth that capitalism is good aCtUallY, and that universal healthcare is the gateway to evil socialism 🤪 I swear, Americans are the dumbest, most propagandized people. When your tax bracket is higher than the billionaires and you can still idolize them like geniuses, the problem is your complacency. And yah, fck capitalism and the millionaires who take advantage of the weak minded who worship them. I honestly don’t think people are outraged enough and when they are, it will be too late. I’m old enough to remember when for profit healthcare in the US was illegal!

You called it, by calling it out, “legal violence”!

Screw United healthcare!!!

I will be honest, I am in my 40s and just now am learning about insurance companies' horrible practices such as United Healthcare. While I knew about them generally, I never truly understood them on a deeper level. I can now connect the dots to my own past experience with them, and the many times I have been upset and confused with my bills or denied claims. This frustrating experience is matched with the millions of Americans. It makes sense that we have endured decades of wealth inequality - they get richer while we get poorer. This is unacceptable, what justice is there for us?

The thing with insurance that aggravates me is that it is mandatory. So if it is mandatory then either make it dirt cheap if we have to have it and be denied in multiple scenarios OR make it mandatory that said insurance have to accept the claims. No insurance company should be making over $500M+ in profits a year. I use the $500M as that could be used to grow the business or whatever.

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Ever notice the commercials that ask us to donate to help kids with cancer and at the same time the health insurance companies are worth over trillions the math aint mathing

They’re nothing but gangsters that kill people systematically to make money.

This is my theory on this entire U.S. pharmaceutical debacle.
It all started in 2005 when George Bush II decided to grant Medicare recipients drug coverage which seemed like a great benefit for our seniors AND initially it was. Unfortunately the Republican led Congress allowed the pharmaceutical industry LOBBYISTS to actually draft the legislation that would become the law in the United States. These pharmaceutical Lobbyists created and wrote the legislation so it benefited their companies more than the Medicare recipients!
The legislation MANDATED that CMS, (the government agency that oversees Medicare) be REQUIRED to reimburse the pharmaceutical companies for ALL drugs covered at the Manufactures SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) regardless of what that price was!
Example: if the drug company set the price of a drug at $100 - CMS was required to reimburse that company $100. The drug may have cost $5 BEFORE Medicare Part D was enacted. But now the pharmaceutical industry is mandated to be paid the higher MSRP of the drug at $100! AND they wrote in the legislation that CMS cannot negotiate the price! CMS IS MANADATED TO PAY THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WHATEVER SUGGESTED PRICE THEY DEEMED APPROPRIATE! Other pharmacy programs like MEDICAID, THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION and private health insurance programs through AETNA, BCBS, etc. can and do negotiate the price of prescription drugs.

Where this entire drug pricing gets crazier is:
Most health insurance companies reimburse for services based on what Medicare covers! This is a broad "rule" for all types of healthcare coverage including doctors visits, surgical procedures, durable medical equipment AND prescription drugs! So if a Medicare Part D participant gets a drug that used to cost $10 (before Medicare Part D was implemented) and now the pharmaceutical company changes the MSRP to $100 - it changes the entire system that the United States prescription coverage is based on for EVERYONE!

If you have no insurance coverage and go to any pharmacy to get a prescription filled - the pharmacy will quote you a price of $100 because that's what the pharmaceutical company is valuing that drug at even it only cost $5 to create it! Their $100 price tag has been created to get more money from CMS but inadvertently increases the prices across the board for ALL patients, especially for patients who have NO COVERAGE or inferior coverage through companies like UNITED HEALTH CARE!
In 2024, Biden enacted The Inflation Reduction Act which allows CMS to negotiate the price of 10 (JUST TEN) drug prices for Medicare recipients! It's a start but the legislators need to be more concerned for their constituents and not on what the pharmaceutical Lobbyists are giving them in the form of kick backs to keep the prices of drugs high and their record profits !!

ADDENDUM: Costco (and Sam's Club -I think) offer lower prescription prices for anyone including non-members! You do NOT need a Costco membership to get your prescriptions at these member-only pharmacies! I know for a fact that Costco has a program for uninsured people to get their prescriptions at almost cost!


Several years ago I had NO health insurance. I had been biten by my cat which got infected (not her fault but that's a story for another time). My forearm swelled and was weeping so I went to an urgent care hospital location. They diagnosed it as sepsis and you could literally see the infection traveling up my arm as it was swollen and very painful. They gave me I.V. antibiotics. I had to go back for these I.V. for 3 consecutive days. I was also given a prescription for a strong antibiotic. I called around to compare the prescription price. Walgreens was $98, CVS was $93, Walmart was $75, Sam's Club was $46 and Costco was $24! All of these were the same exact drug with the same exact quantity!

United just paid 10% of my eye doctor visit 😂

No Dr's take uhc I was lied to when they told me all my drs did then found out they don't. Luckily I was able to change for the upcoming year.

Until Brian got shot the media did nothing to cover the corruption at UHC the media is complicit, they will report on all kinds of benign fluff pieces and nothing about the people dying for profit, they knew were paid off and turned a blind eye

Thank you for making this video. Exposing corruption is vital for justice.

I hate United Healthcare,
They denied my dental cleaning had to pay out off pocket after I was on the phone for an hour with
UHC and didn’t have any
Results, after the incident
I run out from UHC as fast as I could, the dental cleaning was only about
$125.00 .
Very happy now no issues
My friend did the same thing,

Sorry no sympathy here
Because is out of network.

As bad as the Health Insurance Industry is, just wait until you dig into the Military Industrial Complex. It's even worse, and it's the reason the world thinks the US is racist.

It's interesting how America loves to brag about being the world's shining model of freedom and democracy when in fact we are so violent and barbaric to ourselves in so many ways, and all victims of the corporate authoritarian rulers.

Listen Az. Legislature. They are running Az. Program. Bad, Bad.

Big pharma, though, really is overcharging the people and the insurance companies, and they aren't finding permanent cures, instead they're only focused on ways to keep medicating people and keeping them in chronic conditions. That way their revenue is ongoing for their overpriced and less effective treatments. Which will cause side effects for which they'll create another overpriced drug... and their revenue climbs and continues year after year. Alternative, complementary, lifestyle and holistic methods are kept buried beneath our radar, yet have permanently cured illnesses for far less cost and with extra health benefits that come along with them. Even where holistic can't cure (yet), such as with Parkinson's, it has made people's lives far far better without the huge cost of overpriced less effective drugs that cause terrible side effects. In your case you didn't want the less expensive drug, and I understand you had a good reason. But there are many other times something far better for everyone, and which costs less for us and the insurance companies, are simply being dismissed.

I’m tired of hearing how Americans can get into a doctor faster than Canada or Great Britain. Took 7 months to get into a rheumatologist. Primary care doctor: 3 month wait & I’m not a new patient. I was in a ENT surgeon office who needed to refer a woman to a specialist & could not get her in for an appointment for A SOLID YEAR. She was going blind & would be blind in less than a year & he couldn’t a her appointment. That’s all kind of wrong. Canada & Britain don’t have enough healthcare providers. WE DON’T have enough healthcare providers. I have “excellent” insurance (for the U.S. but when I had breast cancer in 2016, I owed a small fortune. Well, at least hospitals have payment plans.

His last name is Thompson. Not Johnson.

There is no such thing as a good private Health Insurance company! Their business model is fraud and exploitation!

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This is a historic moment- a flashpoint in cross cultural class awareness. The line has been drawn and you have to pick a side.

…and now the lead singer of AC/DC is involved!

Boycott United Healthcare

Guys. Truly. This is absolutely out if everything!!!! When you should pay f king taxes for house for work for business etc. And!!!!?????? WHERE IS THE MONEY!? WHERE IS THE MONEY!? WHERE IS THE MONEY!? PAY ABSOLUTELY CRAZY PRICE FOR MEDICINE. HOW COME YOU LET IT BE!???? AMERICANS!?
PAY FOR SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, PAY FOR HOUSE, PAY EVERYTHING, NOTHING IS FREE ALMOST. SO. WHERE ARE THE F.. KING MONEY! ??? SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!???

Actually i think capitalism is the least good of these systems. Just profiting with lives exposes how bad and immoral a system like this is. Everything is a commodity for sale and there’s no time for pursuit of happiness if you are NOT in the higher strata.

Death for money is wrong. They do it everyday. That’s evil.

Corrupt people, period.

That's like purchasing a brand-new car, only to discover on your first drive that it has no engine, wheels, or brakes—it simply doesn't function, despite having spent a significant amount of money on it.

You wait months to see dermatologist in USA as well so this waiting times are more of a myth

United health should keep doing the same . They will probably have to sacrifice 2 or 3 more ceos to get the picture . We will probably see this again . If united health care does not change.

Anything you say before the BUT you don't believe in it, as you a M.D pay cut is the easiest and the first thing to do for fixing the system, US Dr get pay significant more than other developed country Dr with universal health system .not to mention the amount of tax they the citizen pay.

I pay 38 % income tax and that not include the actual universal health tax which you get bare minimum treatment , then you need to pay for health insurance if you want premium service AND still pay gap, so its not sunshine and rainbow .

For every action there's a reaction...Insuranc companies didn't anticipate the need to possibly factor in The Adjuster's reaction when they executed their scheme to maximize their profits in BLOOD??!!

There you have it “l’m not a socialist…:but..”mea culpa.. mea culpa!!!

Brian Thompson* not Johnson. Thanks for the great video!

In Canada healthcare is given by priority, if you need immediate care you get it. If it's say knee surgery and not severe you wait.

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I remember when Bill Clinton was in office, and Hillary Clinton advocated for what is now being called "Medicare for All", people on the right started screaming about death panels. Well, that is what we have now, and the death panel is an AI bot.

Price transparency is needed

The problem is a trifecta :

Government- providers/hospital - insurance/pbms -


Start with price transparency

These companies celebrate every year with bonuses and lavish parties, despite being directly responsible for negligent management of care as middlemen to ungodly costs of minimal or zero treatment.

His name is Brian Thompson.

Violence is not the answer when decent and civilized representation is allowed to exist with demonstrated intent to redress all grievances and reconcile all harm under a fair and codified legal framework state respected as the arbitor to settle all disputes without cruelty or prejudice.

WHEN THAT REPRESENTATION, AS DELIVERED THROUGH THAT STATE, DOES NOT EXIST, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN MADE PREJUDICED, MADE CRUEL, MADE INDECENT AND UNCIVILIZED, WHEN LAW REVERTS TO THE NOTION THAT MIGHT MAKES RIGHT, WHEN THAT BETTER ANSWER DOES NOT EXIST TO COUNTER IT?

THE ONLY OTHER ANSWER IS SUBMISSION AND HUMILIATION AND SUBJEGATION AND DEHUMANIZATION AND RUINATION AND THE CORRUPTION OF LIFE ITSELF INTO AN EXISTENCE YOU ARE ONLY PERMITTED TO SUFFER FOR SO LONG AS IT'S VALUE CAN BE EXTRACTED UNTIL IT IS GONE.

A N D N O O N E L I K E S T H A T O T H E R A N S W E R ! ! !

In the case of politicians, CEOs, other influential people and big organizations, actually there are not too many ways to deliver the message and make any change. People on the top think that they are untouchable, that's why they go further and further with with policies that hurt common people, ridiculous regulations, limitation of human rights and access to basic needs like the heath care. If they were aware that doing something bad to the society might cause them getting shoot the next day, they would think about it 100 times before giving or taking a bribe and making any bad decision. People at the bottom should not feel pain, but people on the top should feel fear.

Americans do it to themselves.. at every turn, we choose self interest over logic.. I remember when there was a push in 2010 when Obama was in office for universal health care and ppl, sorry I mean Americans voted in a Congress that would oppose it.. and look at us now.. smh.. some of you all did it to yourselves..

His name was BRIAN THOMPSON. You’re disgusting, he was a father and there’s not one decision maker at any huge corporation.

Many health insurance companies face criticism for prioritizing profits over patient care, leading to frustration for those navigating the healthcare system. While Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit organization, some feel its operational practices resemble those of for-profit companies, which raises questions about the alignment of its practices with its mission.