It's a really fun idea but either the implementation would be basically infeasible for the reasons lobbying is so hard to ban now, or it'd become part of the culture war and suddenly you'd see companies getting canceled sponsoring Republicans to drum up extra support or whatever.
@LunaLilyEnnuione problem is the world has become so complex is often corporations are teaching lawmakers their industry. They don’t tend to typically have a lot of understanding as to what the given industry or topic is about. Hence why we have people on video voting on abortion access who didn’t understand that you can’t swallow a camera to check on an embryo because the mouth leads to the stomach and an embryo grows in the uterus and those aren’t the same and you can’t swallow something and have it go into a uterus. People making laws on women’s healthcare and they don’t even have the most basics of understanding let alone the vast complexity often around abortion.
@LunaLilyEnnui no it’s just humans are limited as to what they can know in today’s era. You can spend an entire lifetime just learning a subset of mathematics or an area of physics or perfecting a sport or learning about urban city planning or modern agriculture or carpentry etc etc etc There are trillions upon trillions if not far more topics in todays world. And many are rather specialized.
guys DO NOT ask Dr. Glaucomflecken where he was on December 4th at 6:45AM eastern standard time. Seriously tho I don't think he'd be able to contain his laughter lmao
A healthcare manager getting punished for his crimes even as slightly as by a slap on the wrist? Sir, that's not how the medical system works! He would have gotten his "doing evil deeds"-bonus!
@@wmluna381 well that goes to show how long UH and the US healthcare system as a whole has been a menace, and the problems far precede these videos tbh
Without Jimothy, the ceo would not have even received that slap on the wrist. The healthcare system needs serious overhsuling and lobbyists need to be banned from peddling influence
@@dr.floridamanphd corporations are not people and shouldn't have any rights similar to US citizens. Also doesn't help that we're making the government pay to play.
@@dr.floridamanphd Corporations are not people; the first amendment doesn't necessarily apply. Also, bribery is not protected speech and restricting lobbying by accurately describing certain practices as bribery wouldn't be a restriction of free speech; it would be a necessary reform to ensure that people have MORE political freedoms in this country. It's sad to see that corporations have successfully twisted the meaning of what free speech is about to ruin our institutions. Don't let them get away with it
@@gprimoff Corporations aren’t people? Well, let me direct you to Citizens United v FEC in 2010. You can also look up Dartmouth College v Woodward from 1819. Private corporations have constitutional rights under the Contracts Clause, Commerce Clause, First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. While they don’t enjoy all the privileges and immunities we as private citizens do, saying they don’t have any rights at all because they’re not people is just ignorance of constitutional law. And if you can prove that our Congressmen are being bribed then go present your evidence to a federal prosecutor and have them tried.
That's unrealistic. Jimothy would have received a stock letter thanking him for his opinion, this issue is important to the congressman, blah didily doo.
I am a healthcare provider who has had to curtail my United Healthcare patients since they precipitously stopped paying for total patient services. I just couldn’t continue to work for free yet they made billions of dollars last year. Had patients call themselves to complain, was put on a three way call with patients, myself and United Healthcare only to be “disconnected”. Ultimately it is the patients who suffer at the expense of greed. So sad. The healthcare system is definitely broken as I went into medicine to help patients.
I continued to see my existing United Healthcare patients as it was the right thing to do. As I solo private practitioner I could not absorb the financial losses it would cost me to do a full work up for a patient problem and get the right answers. My biller spent several hours on the phone with United Healthcare and I wrote several letters. They just stopped paying for services abruptly. I was the last physician in the area who stopped taking new United Healthcare patients because I didn’t want patients to suffer but alas there was nothing I could do.
@@lindagrazianosouthjerseyal9912 This supposedly ADVANTAGE Plan needs to be stopped ASAP nothing more than a SCAM for innocent people who get the information from TV Infomercials that need to be stopped as well. Doctors get shafted along with patients while UHC rakes in millions in bonus pay for CEOs.
@@distorted_heavy If there is no hope of doing it through legal avenues, then all that remains is off-roading. From what I can tell, the populous is itching for some muddin'. I desperately hope that things can be resolved without ATVs.
Yes, we all know that they can actually get shit done when they want to. Pretty quick at that! So fast that there wasn't enough time to read and distribute information to the general public as a whole. What incentive do lawmakers have to fix the healthcare in any capacity? Forget about in general. What's that? You say that "lawmakers shouldn't be driven by any incentives beyond pleasing their voters". You're absolutely correct. That's not the world we live in though.
@@Confron7a7ion7 Give elected officials the most average insurance anyone in the country can buy, and watch how fast the average person's access to healthcare improves...
@@adrianhenleah but you forget--this is a "for me but not thee" business I mean govt. Heaven forbid congress ever even comes close to living like a average person--the entire economy and world would collapse then!
I think it important, given recent... developments... in the medical insurance field, to state unambiguously that Dr. Glaucomflecken is **NOT** the CEO of United Health Care. He is a doctor and possibly an actor. The reason he is able to so accurately capture a certain, as the french would say; "I don't know what" in his performance as such a CEO is likely due to his profession's close proximity to the many soulless machinations of UHC and similar companies. In these troubling times we should definitely NOT imagine in our heads what Dr. Glaucomflecken might look like in a hooded jacket while wearing a backpack. And our hearts go out to whatever random person the police will inevitably try to pin it on.
Sad, but true. From a physician who had to continue with Kaiser Healthcare of California for a full year after completing residency and moving to West Virginia to work for a company that used UniterHealth(DON'T)Care. I was refused coverage for a year because of a pre-existing condition and had to continue on COBRA. The nearest Kaiser facility was about 3 hours away in Pittsburg. This was in 1995.
I’m a family medicine doc in private practice. I have one practice partner and combined we are well over 150k in claims for which we have not been reimbursed. For a private practice with two doctors, 4 nurses, and 2 front desk staff we are feeling the effects of this. Not going under but definitely feeling the effects. We will not stop seeing any patients and continue to bill as usual hoping things get ironed out and payments resume. The longer I am in practice the more disgusted I get with healthcare and insurance.
I currently live in Phoenix, AZ, and haven't been able to find a primary care physician who has been accepting new patients for the last 15 years. Not a single doctor group with 100 miles. Especially as my employers all used UH. I found one large doctor group a few miles from my home that were accepting new patients, but only if I was on AHCCCS (federal government paid insurance). Why? The feds pay more and they pay on time.
News flash! The reason you can’t find any doctors to take new United Healthcare patients is because they stop paying doctors for total services rendered. Seems to be a recurring theme only for United. Patients need to complain more but unfortunately as an employee you often have little options as to what you get.
@@lindagrazianosouthjerseyal9912 i forgot about this thread. Unfortunately we no longer take United Healthcare insurance. The reason: their reimbursement rates are pennies compared to other companies. We don't like making decisions like that but in the end if we cant pay the power bill, medical supply bill, nurses salary, officer manager salary, and still have some left over to pay our own personal bills we have to close the doors. Being a doctor is a service, but its also a business and you can't do everything or free or at a constant loss.
I was having trouble paying my insurance bill so I switched to Meridian. BIG mistake. They cut off my pregabalin, a very effective medication for fibromyalgia, and told me I need to guinea pig test my way through alternatives before they'll pay for it. I am going in to see my doctor in two days after months of having fatigue so bad my lungs would refuse to inflate for 10 seconds at a time. The fatigue is so intense it triggers seizures, sometimes four a day, completely negating my seizure medication. All because I switched insurance. So the moment I saw "united healthcare gets punished" I HAD TO CLICK.
So sorry this happened to you. Insurances do not care about patients’ welfare. It’s all about money and I speak as a healthcare provider who continues to fight for patients.
United Healthcare has a subsidiary called US Health Advisors which sells their insurance policies to people who they know are looking for health insurance via data brokers. I know because I attended an interview with them. Before the interview itself, the interviewees were given effectively a TED talk by the location's manager. He talked about the insanely good compensation but the equally crazy work culture, with basically every employee working over sixty hours, that you are out if you miss a single target, and that you should come into work if your stomach hurts. In t he interview itself, I was asked if I had any outside commitments like a wife and kids.
@@meganofsherwood3665 Because we sit around on the internet insulting eachother over the actions of some of the most disgusting individuals in the facis of humanity that even hitler would look down upon
They had a second cyberattack from likely the same hackers. Who woulda thunk that paying a ransomware hacker $22,000,000 would lead to a follow-up cyber attack. Nice precedent that they are setting for all of healthcare.
The kicker is that they people they paid the ransom to then fled with the money, leaving the hacker with the data with nothing. Yeah, the people who write the ransomware pay hackers a cut of the take is the business model and for $22m they just rugpulled. They guy who hacked and stole that data got nothing even though the ransom was paid.
I was hoping there was news I missed. But literally, this is how it worked when I contacted my state legislators. Good news is, I got a check for $7.90 for 6 weeks of care for 2 medica patients, so my advocacy must have been effective.
Funny and depressing at the same time. That slap on the wrist was far more painful than what usually happens to health care companies. Gotta start somewhere, I guess...
I dont mean to mess with the Glaucomflecken Cinematic Universe, but it would be awesome if there was a biomedical engineer character in the hospital. Having to explain to doctors (bigger brains than me) how to use computers in the simplest words possible is a pretty crazy experience. It kinda feels like being TMike sometimes too with how many different machines, programming languages, and manufacturing techniques I need to learn.
@@jacobthiessen7027 Or things like thermometers and other such items connected to the system that always need IT Network support. Or how about all the different permissions required by some of the transcription software that may depend on which department likes what. The systems end that is. Just listening to my spouse talking to managers on any given day, um...yeah
I agree- it would be cool to see some of the more supporting hospital roles make appearances~ I am a sterile processing tech, and so many folks don't know what we are or that we exist.
This was 8month before now, I wonder if that is around the time Luigi disappeared according to Luigi's mom. Its like Dr sarcastically predicted the future.
How do you make corporations not own them. They’re the only ones who can pay for campaign fees unless you’re good with Trump running healthcare. Eh, what am I saying? I’m sure he’d do fine🤣
@@Hoshimaru57 12 year old kids using trump like he's some scary boogie man to avoid answering the issue. This isn't a one sided issue, this is a systematic problem.
@Hoshimaru57 Yeah, because it's not like we pay taxes for that kind of thing. It's not like we can give politicians a set budget and make paying them illegal. That would be work.🙃
This pretty much goes for any Congressional hearing on any issue. I've learned a lot from watching hearings, so there's that. But what I've learned the most is that consequences will NOT occur.
Jimothy, I believe the congresswoman would like her whiteboard so we can get this hearing restarted… Oh and popcorn for the gallery please, lots of it!
Going to miss her so much in the House. Really wish she hadn't run for Feinstein's seat, even though she would be an awesome senator. But she was outspent by the competition in her own party.
Imagine if our government was for the people and by the people instead of for the corporations. Imagine if we had public servants instead of politicians.
I dropped United Health Care after seeing the CEO on a right-wing TV show, (I was channel surfing). I became so enraged after he was bragging about how much money he was making, how much money the shareholders were making, and actually talking about the customers as being suckers. All the while he was speaking he had this swarmy smirk on his face. I lived in Europe. I know what Social Health care is. It is wonderful because you never have to be afraid of losing everything you own because of health care. You can add Private Health care to your social care, but it is significly cheaper than our cheapest health care here. When are the American people going to wake up?
Man, wish somebody would dig up and repost that interview now. That would be a good 1-2 punch, if you will on this topic as a whole. Especially with the media glossing over the collective rage. Do you remember the show / host?
If it makes you feel any better Dr. G., a Police Lieutenant in Fullerton California that's part of a federal task force came down to Tijuana Mexico where I was living/hiding out and told me (the crime victim) over 12 years ago that Congress shouldn't be letting public corruption/terrorists/DOJ get away with what they are doing either and heavily weighted fault on a U.S. Senator that has since died. So I feel your pain. Great video. I'm laughing my ass off as usual. You're a natural!
Aww! I stopped paying attention to the news (been much happier and I still vote in every election and donate) and I had no context for the title. Seems I've developed some naivete and thought they actually got punished. I guess wishful thinking and just not paying attention to continued late stage capitalism and the tragedy of The American Dream during and for years after FDR it seemed like there could be a government that protected it's people and fostered a middle class. All torn down. Super depressing can't imagine how it could be fixed. Bernie was my last hope (he probably would have failed but he has fire) I think he could have pushed us into a more secure position before Big Data and AI allow even more consolidation and stronger manipulation. Great video btw love your portrayals of each of the doctors really fun. The United stuff is great too, like Jon Stewart or Jon Oliver. The gallows' humor brings the noose to the forefront.
Me, a pharmacy tech, explaining what a prior authorization is to a patient: "your insurance doesn't want to pay for this. your doctor has to prove why you need it. there's nothing i can do to make this go any faster" them "but I have good insurance!" me: *sighs* "we'll decide how good it is if they actually end up providing the service you're paying them for"
It truly is sad just how much power insurance companies (and corporations in general) have. They are never held accountable by those in Congress despite how much damage they've done to other businesses, practices, and hard working individuals. Money drives everything, and we can thank the practice of lobbying groups and their influence on Congress for the "slap on the wrist" that most corporations get. The punishment they receive is orders of magnitude smaller than the damage they do. Sad!
A lot of the problems in politics could be solved by changing how campaign funds are financed. I think all politicians/campaigners should be given a fixed amount of public money for the next election cycle, and ideally, campaigning should be restricted to a certain period of time (let's say a month) before the relevant election. This way every politician is given the same resources from the same source, and can't spend half the year campaigning and fundraising instead of doing their jobs. The current system of private donations has too many opportunities for corruption. Allocating a bit of taxpayer money to fund campaigns to prevent politicians from begging for corporate handouts feels like a good use of public money to me.
Tax payers should not be funding politicians they do not want to support. The bigger problem is dark money. Democrat donors in order to skirt campaign laws buy pre paid credit cards send them to their supporters who in turn use the credit card to donate to the politician. That is just one example how radical donors like Soros funnel money.
The most unrealistic part of this script is that Jimothy was allowed to speak against corruption in Congress.
i thought the most unrealistic part was the CEO even getting a slap on the wrist
I don't think it was Jimothy. I think the doctor panicked at the thought of backlash and threw Jimothy under the bus.
It was so sad when jimothy passed away unfortunately to 32 self inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head.
Like the Boeing whistleblower
@@TheLocomono9 oddest case of suicide i've ever seen.
This skit has a whole new meaning now
Right I was like
👁️👃👁️😉
When I saw it in my recommended
"More than a slap on the wrist" 😶
Jimothy is nodding approvingly
He was spanked on the bum alright
Narrator: it was in fact more than a full on butt spanking.
I still agree with Robin Williams when he suggested politicians should wear a jacket with the names of all their sponsors like a NASCAR car.
😂
...with sponsor patch covered lonnnng robes dragging behind them, like a King in a Coronation ceremony
It's a really fun idea but either the implementation would be basically infeasible for the reasons lobbying is so hard to ban now, or it'd become part of the culture war and suddenly you'd see companies getting canceled sponsoring Republicans to drum up extra support or whatever.
@LunaLilyEnnuione problem is the world has become so complex is often corporations are teaching lawmakers their industry. They don’t tend to typically have a lot of understanding as to what the given industry or topic is about. Hence why we have people on video voting on abortion access who didn’t understand that you can’t swallow a camera to check on an embryo because the mouth leads to the stomach and an embryo grows in the uterus and those aren’t the same and you can’t swallow something and have it go into a uterus. People making laws on women’s healthcare and they don’t even have the most basics of understanding let alone the vast complexity often around abortion.
@LunaLilyEnnui no it’s just humans are limited as to what they can know in today’s era. You can spend an entire lifetime just learning a subset of mathematics or an area of physics or perfecting a sport or learning about
urban city planning or modern agriculture or carpentry etc etc etc There are trillions upon trillions if not far more topics in todays world. And many are rather specialized.
Missing conveyor belt of money going from CEO to congressman...
Yes and yes!
This.
Is it missing or just under the table?
Its a skit, not a documentary. Lol
It's too big to fit on screen
When I heard the news I immediately thought that Jimothy must have snapped. Hope Dr. Gloucomflecken has a video about this story.
Agreed. It had to be Jimothy.
Jimothy for the win
Same reason I'm back here lol
guys DO NOT ask Dr. Glaucomflecken where he was on December 4th at 6:45AM eastern standard time.
Seriously tho I don't think he'd be able to contain his laughter lmao
He does now in case you missed it. It wasn't jimothy, and I don't think it was Johnathan because he wouldn't have been caught on camera.
Dr. Glaucomflecken has reached prophet status...
Apparently the people have begun their own justice today.
Such a cruel and heartbreaking punishment, congressman is truly a monster!
Cruel and unusual.
Government overreach has truly gone too far.
Can't _somebody_ think of the corporations?! The poor CEO doesn't even have a yacht in each of the seven seas! That's cruel and unusual punishment!
Butt spanking 😂😂
Yeah, umm turns out there are some recent developments you should be appraised of
A healthcare manager getting punished for his crimes even as slightly as by a slap on the wrist? Sir, that's not how the medical system works! He would have gotten his "doing evil deeds"-bonus!
The "doing evil deeds" bonus comes from the shareholders, one of whom is likely to be the Congressman.
The slap on the wrist is probably a fine thats less then what they made in profit from this hack blocking payments
CEO would be ousted and given a giant fucking payout golden parachute to land in as a congressional lobbyist
We all talk about corruption and knowingly doing bad things. Why havent we all going up and gone to the police
Welp, this aged well 😂
Jimothy went on a 7 months training journey to complete his anime arch
This actually aged pretty good, I understand why the CEO was a target of the hit on him today
The man who attended the hearing that is being satirised here is not the man who was hit. CEO of the holding group was the one at congress
@@davidy22UHG CEO came out and made some tone deaf statements too after the shooting
Pretty wild that he's on topic with United Healthcare considering recent doings. I thought these were recent until I saw the date stamps on comments.
The guy being satirized here is not the guy who died, he's the boss of the guy who died.
@@wmluna381 well that goes to show how long UH and the US healthcare system as a whole has been a menace, and the problems far precede these videos tbh
This has aged well.😮
Like a fine wine, or good cheese...
this channel is going to have _fascinating_ analytics this month
Welp. I guess Jimothy finally snapped
This aged beautifully.
This aged like fine wine 👀
Without Jimothy, the ceo would not have even received that slap on the wrist. The healthcare system needs serious overhsuling and lobbyists need to be banned from peddling influence
Sadly, that would be breach of their first amendment right to free speech.
@@dr.floridamanphd corporations are not people and shouldn't have any rights similar to US citizens. Also doesn't help that we're making the government pay to play.
@@dr.floridamanphd Corporations are not people; the first amendment doesn't necessarily apply. Also, bribery is not protected speech and restricting lobbying by accurately describing certain practices as bribery wouldn't be a restriction of free speech; it would be a necessary reform to ensure that people have MORE political freedoms in this country.
It's sad to see that corporations have successfully twisted the meaning of what free speech is about to ruin our institutions. Don't let them get away with it
@@gprimoff Corporations aren’t people? Well, let me direct you to Citizens United v FEC in 2010.
You can also look up Dartmouth College v Woodward from 1819.
Private corporations have constitutional rights under the Contracts Clause, Commerce Clause, First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
While they don’t enjoy all the privileges and immunities we as private citizens do, saying they don’t have any rights at all because they’re not people is just ignorance of constitutional law.
And if you can prove that our Congressmen are being bribed then go present your evidence to a federal prosecutor and have them tried.
@@dr.floridamanphd Every rational intelligent educated person knows that ruling is utter BS in the short term and long term 😑
I expected that to end with Mr. CEO making a "campaign donation" and suddenly it's all water under the bridge
Luigi: And I took that personally
Allegedly. I believe a substantial amount of the evidence reported against him was planted, which provides cause for reasonable doubt.
That's unrealistic. Jimothy would have received a stock letter thanking him for his opinion, this issue is important to the congressman, blah didily doo.
Yep, addressed to "Dear citizen", because they can't even be bothered to even put his name in.
I am a healthcare provider who has had to curtail my United Healthcare patients since they precipitously stopped paying for total patient services. I just couldn’t continue to work for free yet they made billions of dollars last year. Had patients call themselves to complain, was put on a three way call with patients, myself and United Healthcare only to be “disconnected”. Ultimately it is the patients who suffer at the expense of greed. So sad. The healthcare system is definitely broken as I went into medicine to help patients.
I continued to see my existing United Healthcare patients as it was the right thing to do. As I solo private practitioner I could not absorb the financial losses it would cost me to do a full work up for a patient problem and get the right answers. My biller spent several hours on the phone with United Healthcare and I wrote several letters. They just stopped paying for services abruptly. I was the last physician in the area who stopped taking new United Healthcare patients because I didn’t want patients to suffer but alas there was nothing I could do.
This deserves wider press!
@@alisonj1384Luigi got the memo.
@@lindagrazianosouthjerseyal9912 This supposedly ADVANTAGE Plan needs to be stopped ASAP nothing more than a SCAM for innocent people who get the information from TV Infomercials that need to be stopped as well. Doctors get shafted along with patients while UHC rakes in millions in bonus pay for CEOs.
I wonder if the FBI will interview the good doctor.
Thank you for providing context for this week's events. I suspect this video will go viral.
It took a week for the Tiktok ban to go from introduction to vote in the House. They can fix this in a heartbeat
That would imply that they want to fix it or have any vested interest in fixing it
@@distorted_heavy If there is no hope of doing it through legal avenues, then all that remains is off-roading.
From what I can tell, the populous is itching for some muddin'. I desperately hope that things can be resolved without ATVs.
Yes, we all know that they can actually get shit done when they want to. Pretty quick at that! So fast that there wasn't enough time to read and distribute information to the general public as a whole.
What incentive do lawmakers have to fix the healthcare in any capacity? Forget about in general.
What's that? You say that "lawmakers shouldn't be driven by any incentives beyond pleasing their voters". You're absolutely correct. That's not the world we live in though.
@@Confron7a7ion7 Give elected officials the most average insurance anyone in the country can buy, and watch how fast the average person's access to healthcare improves...
@@adrianhenleah but you forget--this is a "for me but not thee" business I mean govt. Heaven forbid congress ever even comes close to living like a average person--the entire economy and world would collapse then!
APOLLO HATH HEARD THY PLEA AND SMOTE UNITED HEALTHCARE'S CEO.
Corporations act like they like it. "Spank me harder regulators"
Protect Jimothy at all cost!
You forgot where UHC slides money into the senators “campaign contributions “
This is gonna be depressing.
Yeah, it was.
Aaand it was.
@tylerhobbs7653 you should check again, it’s hilarious now.
Don't feel that way! The butt spanking just happened and it went pretty hard 😳 only it wasn't congress.
It was, and it got worse 😂
2:08 "Next time it will be more than just a slap on the wrist... "
It certainly was.
This guy was ahead of the Mangioni curve, that's for sure.
I think it important, given recent... developments... in the medical insurance field, to state unambiguously that Dr. Glaucomflecken is **NOT** the CEO of United Health Care. He is a doctor and possibly an actor. The reason he is able to so accurately capture a certain, as the french would say; "I don't know what" in his performance as such a CEO is likely due to his profession's close proximity to the many soulless machinations of UHC and similar companies.
In these troubling times we should definitely NOT imagine in our heads what Dr. Glaucomflecken might look like in a hooded jacket while wearing a backpack. And our hearts go out to whatever random person the police will inevitably try to pin it on.
Sad, but true. From a physician who had to continue with Kaiser Healthcare of California for a full year after completing residency and moving to West Virginia to work for a company that used UniterHealth(DON'T)Care. I was refused coverage for a year because of a pre-existing condition and had to continue on COBRA. The nearest Kaiser facility was about 3 hours away in Pittsburg. This was in 1995.
Many thanks to obamacare which put a stop to that preexisting condition bullshit
Thank fuck they have to cover pre-existing conditions. Utter insanity that wasn't a thing before the affordable care act.
If only that character was named Luigi, this skit from several years ago would have hit SO different.
The CEO been real quiet lately
Oh - that’s cold 😮🥶
I’m a family medicine doc in private practice. I have one practice partner and combined we are well over 150k in claims for which we have not been reimbursed. For a private practice with two doctors, 4 nurses, and 2 front desk staff we are feeling the effects of this. Not going under but definitely feeling the effects. We will not stop seeing any patients and continue to bill as usual hoping things get ironed out and payments resume.
The longer I am in practice the more disgusted I get with healthcare and insurance.
I currently live in Phoenix, AZ, and haven't been able to find a primary care physician who has been accepting new patients for the last 15 years. Not a single doctor group with 100 miles. Especially as my employers all used UH.
I found one large doctor group a few miles from my home that were accepting new patients, but only if I was on AHCCCS (federal government paid insurance). Why? The feds pay more and they pay on time.
News flash! The reason you can’t find any doctors to take new United Healthcare patients is because they stop paying doctors for total services rendered. Seems to be a recurring theme only for United. Patients need to complain more but unfortunately as an employee you often have little options as to what you get.
Thanks for all you do.
@@lindagrazianosouthjerseyal9912 i forgot about this thread. Unfortunately we no longer take United Healthcare insurance. The reason: their reimbursement rates are pennies compared to other companies. We don't like making decisions like that but in the end if we cant pay the power bill, medical supply bill, nurses salary, officer manager salary, and still have some left over to pay our own personal bills we have to close the doors. Being a doctor is a service, but its also a business and you can't do everything or free or at a constant loss.
There was another form of justice sooooo.......
I was having trouble paying my insurance bill so I switched to Meridian. BIG mistake. They cut off my pregabalin, a very effective medication for fibromyalgia, and told me I need to guinea pig test my way through alternatives before they'll pay for it. I am going in to see my doctor in two days after months of having fatigue so bad my lungs would refuse to inflate for 10 seconds at a time. The fatigue is so intense it triggers seizures, sometimes four a day, completely negating my seizure medication. All because I switched insurance. So the moment I saw "united healthcare gets punished" I HAD TO CLICK.
So sorry this happened to you. Insurances do not care about patients’ welfare. It’s all about money and I speak as a healthcare provider who continues to fight for patients.
The CEO just got smoked
United Healthcare has a subsidiary called US Health Advisors which sells their insurance policies to people who they know are looking for health insurance via data brokers. I know because I attended an interview with them. Before the interview itself, the interviewees were given effectively a TED talk by the location's manager. He talked about the insanely good compensation but the equally crazy work culture, with basically every employee working over sixty hours, that you are out if you miss a single target, and that you should come into work if your stomach hurts. In t he interview itself, I was asked if I had any outside commitments like a wife and kids.
That's...that's illegal 😢 To ask about wife & kids, I mean. How did we fall so far?
@@meganofsherwood3665 Because we sit around on the internet insulting eachother over the actions of some of the most disgusting individuals in the facis of humanity that even hitler would look down upon
Disgusting.
Thanks
And after all the money that CEO donated to the congressman's campaign! can you believe he would just turn on United Healthcare like that?!
They had a second cyberattack from likely the same hackers. Who woulda thunk that paying a ransomware hacker $22,000,000 would lead to a follow-up cyber attack. Nice precedent that they are setting for all of healthcare.
The kicker is that they people they paid the ransom to then fled with the money, leaving the hacker with the data with nothing. Yeah, the people who write the ransomware pay hackers a cut of the take is the business model and for $22m they just rugpulled. They guy who hacked and stole that data got nothing even though the ransom was paid.
It just boggles my mind that they would pay 22 million supposedly and yet stop paying their doctors for services rendered.
AT&T also had a data breach affecting a hundred million with SSN and phone numbers being stolen. All I got was 1 year of free credit check.
I was hoping there was news I missed. But literally, this is how it worked when I contacted my state legislators. Good news is, I got a check for $7.90 for 6 weeks of care for 2 medica patients, so my advocacy must have been effective.
Funny and depressing at the same time. That slap on the wrist was far more painful than what usually happens to health care companies. Gotta start somewhere, I guess...
Yep, so much corruption
I dont mean to mess with the Glaucomflecken Cinematic Universe, but it would be awesome if there was a biomedical engineer character in the hospital. Having to explain to doctors (bigger brains than me) how to use computers in the simplest words possible is a pretty crazy experience. It kinda feels like being TMike sometimes too with how many different machines, programming languages, and manufacturing techniques I need to learn.
Maybe a skit on changing charting systems? That’s always a nightmare and we get a lot of help from IT
@@jacobthiessen7027 Or things like thermometers and other such items connected to the system that always need IT Network support. Or how about all the different permissions required by some of the transcription software that may depend on which department likes what. The systems end that is. Just listening to my spouse talking to managers on any given day, um...yeah
I agree- it would be cool to see some of the more supporting hospital roles make appearances~ I am a sterile processing tech, and so many folks don't know what we are or that we exist.
*Well Well Well. Any whooo...*
I had hope for a minute there that the US courts actually did something. Should have known better
Yeah, the title got my hopes up 😢
United Healthcare REALLY got punished now
One small fragment of United Healthcare was punished. The remainder stepped over his corpse and carried on business-as-usual.
Dr. Glaucomflecken, where were you between the hours of 6 and 7am ET on the morning of December 4th?
🤣
Nobody saw shit!
He was with me and Luigi partying in Idaho.
The Algorithm is playing for keeps today ...
I had a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement.
its time like this when we need a convention of that states
This is fine wine.
The prime cause is citizens United. We grew up being told justice would prevail. When it doesn’t people take things into their own hands.
this aged very well.
The CEO should in the end ask congressman if their Saturday golf match is still on.
I’m an oncology authorizations specialist - my job is to fight healthcare for the patiens treatment. They love to make it hard
Deep respect.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Luigi goes to Congress..oh that's Franky goes to Hollywood. 🏴☠️
Good news, everyone!
This was 8month before now, I wonder if that is around the time Luigi disappeared according to Luigi's mom. Its like Dr sarcastically predicted the future.
Well, when corporations own congressmen, that's what you get. 😑🤷
How do you make corporations not own them. They’re the only ones who can pay for campaign fees unless you’re good with Trump running healthcare.
Eh, what am I saying? I’m sure he’d do fine🤣
@@Hoshimaru57 12 year old kids using trump like he's some scary boogie man to avoid answering the issue.
This isn't a one sided issue, this is a systematic problem.
@Hoshimaru57 Yeah, because it's not like we pay taxes for that kind of thing. It's not like we can give politicians a set budget and make paying them illegal. That would be work.🙃
ahead of your time, Dr G
looks like he didn't actually get away with it after all
"When the punishment for a crime is a fine, it's only a crime for the poor" or something to that effect.
This was hilarious 7 months ago. It's prophetic now. 😅
What is your name, son? ............"Luigi"
It was Jimothy. Jimothy killed Brian Thompson.
I wish this wasn't so depressingly accurate.
United Healthcare got punished again…
UA-cam had the chance to do the most funny thing and it did 💀💀
This pretty much goes for any Congressional hearing on any issue. I've learned a lot from watching hearings, so there's that. But what I've learned the most is that consequences will NOT occur.
Jimothy, I believe the congresswoman would like her whiteboard so we can get this hearing restarted…
Oh and popcorn for the gallery please, lots of it!
Katie Porter and the *Whiteboard of Justice.* 👊
Gonna miss her so much! Whoever convinced her to step down to run for that other office should be the next to get spanked.
i came down to the comment section for this exactly. god bless rep. porter
Going to miss her so much in the House. Really wish she hadn't run for Feinstein's seat, even though she would be an awesome senator. But she was outspent by the competition in her own party.
Imagine if our government was for the people and by the people instead of for the corporations. Imagine if we had public servants instead of politicians.
We do not live in a capitalistic society, America has devolved into fascism.
Jimothy finally had enough.
This skit aged very well😂
I dropped United Health Care after seeing the CEO on a right-wing TV show, (I was channel surfing). I became so enraged after he was bragging about how much money he was making, how much money the shareholders were making, and actually talking about the customers as being suckers. All the while he was speaking he had this swarmy smirk on his face. I lived in Europe. I know what Social Health care is. It is wonderful because you never have to be afraid of losing everything you own because of health care. You can add Private Health care to your social care, but it is significly cheaper than our cheapest health care here. When are the American people going to wake up?
Man, wish somebody would dig up and repost that interview now. That would be a good 1-2 punch, if you will on this topic as a whole. Especially with the media glossing over the collective rage. Do you remember the show / host?
This aged well
Gotta love how the American donations to politicians system allows companies to "invest" in politicians
Bruh got a little worse than a slap.
At the 1:50 mark ... "we cannot let this slide without severe punishment"
Completely unacceptable treatment of our nation's custodians (CEO's).
The CEO was killed this morning.
I prefer to say he was deposed.
If it makes you feel any better Dr. G., a Police Lieutenant in Fullerton California that's part of a federal task force came down to Tijuana Mexico where I was living/hiding out and told me (the crime victim) over 12 years ago that Congress shouldn't be letting public corruption/terrorists/DOJ get away with what they are doing either and heavily weighted fault on a U.S. Senator that has since died. So I feel your pain. Great video. I'm laughing my ass off as usual. You're a natural!
This aged well ヽ༼⁰o⁰；༽ノ
Aww! I stopped paying attention to the news (been much happier and I still vote in every election and donate) and I had no context for the title. Seems I've developed some naivete and thought they actually got punished.
I guess wishful thinking and just not paying attention to continued late stage capitalism and the tragedy of The American Dream during and for years after FDR it seemed like there could be a government that protected it's people and fostered a middle class. All torn down. Super depressing can't imagine how it could be fixed. Bernie was my last hope (he probably would have failed but he has fire) I think he could have pushed us into a more secure position before Big Data and AI allow even more consolidation and stronger manipulation.
Great video btw love your portrayals of each of the doctors really fun.
The United stuff is great too, like Jon Stewart or Jon Oliver. The gallows' humor brings the noose to the forefront.
Me, a pharmacy tech, explaining what a prior authorization is to a patient: "your insurance doesn't want to pay for this. your doctor has to prove why you need it. there's nothing i can do to make this go any faster" them "but I have good insurance!" me: *sighs* "we'll decide how good it is if they actually end up providing the service you're paying them for"
Just because you never got EOP denials from your insurance, doesn't mean they are covering your visits. 😑
Oh they got punished all right.
And this is how we got to where we are today
This is too funny rn
Anybody here after the events of 12/4?
It truly is sad just how much power insurance companies (and corporations in general) have. They are never held accountable by those in Congress despite how much damage they've done to other businesses, practices, and hard working individuals. Money drives everything, and we can thank the practice of lobbying groups and their influence on Congress for the "slap on the wrist" that most corporations get. The punishment they receive is orders of magnitude smaller than the damage they do. Sad!
Once again, thank you Dr
This aged well lol
A lot of the problems in politics could be solved by changing how campaign funds are financed. I think all politicians/campaigners should be given a fixed amount of public money for the next election cycle, and ideally, campaigning should be restricted to a certain period of time (let's say a month) before the relevant election. This way every politician is given the same resources from the same source, and can't spend half the year campaigning and fundraising instead of doing their jobs. The current system of private donations has too many opportunities for corruption. Allocating a bit of taxpayer money to fund campaigns to prevent politicians from begging for corporate handouts feels like a good use of public money to me.
Tax payers should not be funding politicians they do not want to support. The bigger problem is dark money. Democrat donors in order to skirt campaign laws buy pre paid credit cards send them to their supporters who in turn use the credit card to donate to the politician. That is just one example how radical donors like Soros funnel money.
Here's to all those "Good" people, who remain so fiercely dedicated to ensuring that "Nothing Fundamentally Changes."
Dr G was early money on United
Really expected the congressman to thank CEO for his political contribution
PROPHETIC
Tryong to find corruption information after the ceo was assasinated. You should drop a video about their malpractices
Look at ProPublica's reports.