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UnitedHealthcare Is Struggling To Recover From Luigi Mangione (www.newsweek.com)

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The attack on the 50-year-old executive—allegedly by the now 27-year-old Luigi Mangione—immediately sparked an outpouring of public fury not at the gunman, but at UnitedHealthcare itself.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (27 children)

Hey, where do you work? - Oh I work in the health insurance industry - That's disgusting, I am leaving.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (26 children)

I would absolutely have this exact interaction. Including anyone working in finance.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (25 children)

Are you Winnie the Pooh? Because this is blustery as fuck.

I work in health insurance, and I just can't bear the thought that you and I might never be friends.

But looking for a job is hard, and honestly this one is really good for me. It suits my narrow skillset, and it gives me a great work-life balance, which is the main thing I'm looking for while my kids are young. I quit my more demanding oil job to take this one so I could be there for them.

But if you have some kind of plan for how I could reform the entire industry by quitting my job at the bottom rung of a middling insurance company, I'll gladly do it. I could always go back to working in finance.

Otherwise this is all just thoughtless, impotent bluster, untempered by life experience.

In real life, most of the people who work at insurance companies are doing their best to keep the system running, because people do depend on it despite its flaws, and I don't have any more power to change it than you do.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But if you have some kind of plan for how I could reform the entire industry by quitting my job at the bottom rung of a middling insurance company, I'll gladly do it.

Translation: Someone else has to be responsible for fixing everything before I will take any responsibility for my participation in the obviously corrupt and exploitive system.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You seem to have misunderstood my point. Such a plan couldn't exist, because that's not how change works.

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