Why US Health Insurance Companies are Hated

What moderates fail to get about the gloating over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson assassination

A debate about the US health instance companies has been sparked by reactions to CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, being gunned down. I have seen when this story has been covered here in my native Norway, the journalists simply have not had any concepts of how horrible UnitedHealthcare as a company is and what reality Americans face.

Many articles have written about this. CNN had an article with many of the stories patients have shared:

A class action lawsuit filed last year in US District Court in Minnesota argued that UnitedHealthcare uses AI “in place of real medical professionals to wrongfully deny elderly patients care,” according to the complaint. More than 90% of the denials are reversed through an internal appeal or proceedings before federal administrative law judges, the suit alleges.

Norwegians will not understand this because when we deal with health insurance companies it is an entirely different experience. Most of us have no idea how terrible US health insurance companies are. Norway, of course, has a socialized health care system, but you can buy private insurance as a way of getting treatment faster or to…