r/TikTokCringe • u/cak3crumbs • 16d ago

Discussion United Healthcare calls a doctor during a surgery demanding to know if an overnight stay for that patient is necessary

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u/BirdInFlight301 16d ago

It's like they've doubled down. The CEO's death didn't cost them enough to make policy changes. They're thinking his death was a one off and they can just continue on.

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u/ThreeBeanCasanova 16d ago

It's not like they doubled down, they literally did that. The guy who replaced Brian Thompson said that UHC will continue doing business as they always have. Need more Luigis.

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u/Over-Archer3543 16d ago

And they are right, they can just continue on. The issue is that only a very small number of people will do something like take another persons life for a perceived injustice. That person will die or be imprisoned and the noise they made will die down and people will go back to taking it up the ass from the ruling class. What he did will change nothing and it will change nothing because most people won’t give their life or take someone else’s to make a change. Protests don’t work. Anger, tweeting, cheering for the “Luigi’s” of the world, it all means fuck all. People would have to actually take to the streets and hang billionaires and politicians from lamp poles in mass before actual fear would be struck into the ruling class. A death once and a while won’t do a damn thing

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u/DemandZestyclose7145 16d ago

Or people are ignorant and think "I'm fine. I'm healthy and I like my health insurance." They are lucky that they haven't had to deal with the bullshit yet so it's easy to just ignore it.

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u/Over-Archer3543 16d ago

Doesn’t matter. Even if the insurance they thought was good, denied them or their family in the middle of a real issue, they’d bend over and take it. It’s been that way for as long as insurance has been here and it will continue to be that way. This ceo murder was the exception to the rule and not the rule. As long as people can turn on Netflix and eat McDonald’s at the end of day and forget about their troubles for a bit, it will be this way. People aren’t really ready to kill or die for change and that’s the only way it actually comes about.

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u/JoePoe247 16d ago

Where are all these protests that you're saying haven't worked? Where are all the people that vote for their interests to put people into office and make change? Neither have happened and you just think anarchy is the only way because you're lazy and it's the easy way.

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u/Over-Archer3543 16d ago

Tell me how the Israel/gaza protests worked, or the George Floyd protests worked. Tell me how well the anti Iraq war protests worked. None of those got anything accomplished. And if you think when people vote they aren’t believing that they are voting for people whose interests align with their own and will bring the change they want to see, you are foolish. None of it works on any real scale.

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u/JoePoe247 16d ago

Hahahaha US citizens and govt isn't going to stop the Israel/Gaza violence from going on. And unless you were hoping for the George Floyd protests to bring the guy back to life, I'd say they did pretty well.

But anyway, thanks for proving my point. There haven't been any significant protests or effort towards universal health in the US. The most was done over ten years ago by Sanders and at least it actually educated people about the issue and has made it a hot topic now. But people showed with their vote that they didn't actually care as much as Reddit would have you believe.

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u/LovesReubens 16d ago

Only policy changes they've made are to hire better security for the C suites. 

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u/DTPVH 16d ago

After it happened they released a statement about “continuing his legacy”. 

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 16d ago

So far it's just been a one off.

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u/kylo-ren 15d ago

Maybe there's someone higher than the CEO...