White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain

The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers' pain after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, by expediting payments to hospitals, physicians and pharmacists – among other tactics. "A hack of this magnitude is inexcusable and every American who is …

[Anonymous Coward]

Former UHG tech

UHG bought Oxoford Health Plans while I worked there. UHG is nothing short of evil. They fired call center people unjustly every year (slow call season) so they wouldn't have to pay unemployment benefits. They prohibited social activity at work (couldn't even put up for sale/free adds on the share boards anymore) they skimped on basic service desk support (1 tech per 700+).

From what I learned inside without giving up detail - they would rather people die than pay benefits due, and that was common.

In other words - Karma found a way - to bad the super greedy evil executives will never have to pay a penny. Look them up, you will be disgusted too.

[Mobster]

Well, one big issue is why is there so much concentration of back-office health paperwork processing at one company? Whatever happened to capitalism and free markets? I think many (mostly politicians and lawyers who want to become politicians) prefer to obfuscate and confuse "markets" with "companies". In capitalism, it is _markets_ that are free, companies have to be regulated to ensure markets remain free. This collective confusion seems to have started with the Chicago school and a certain former actor who played at being president.

[SNaidamast]

One reaps what they sow...

There are a lot of people who deserve the blame here as people simply would never consider the downsides of moving everything under the sun to web applications, all of which use a completely insecure protocol.

Even the scientists who created the Internet warned businesses about this years ago.

But everyone just wanted to make money and find faster ways to create new applications.

Now we have what we have...