How UnitedHealthās Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americansā Treatment at Risk
Reporting Highlights
- An Insurer Sanctioned: Three states found Unitedās algorithmic system to limit mental health coverage illegal; when they fought it, the insurer agreed to restrict it.
- A Patchwork Problem: The company is policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets, highlighting a key flaw in the U.S. regulatory structure.
- Unitedās Playbook Revealed: The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health care coverage as United targets them for cost savings.
An article from a month ago about United Heathcares problematic coverage, which I believe is relevant again.
No Democrat is going to endorse or sanction a murder. If you donāt believe in the death penalty, you canāt defend this guyās murder, and politicians are supposed to sound all responsible-like.
Itās not an internally consistent position, but my morality doesnāt have to be strictly defined and codified into laws. Someone responsible for making laws kinda has to do their best at advocating that those laws represent absolutely morality.
We here are under no such expectations. You should never assault someone, but if that someone is a Nazi Iām buying you a beer. If someone murders a CEO responsible for death and misery, murder is still wrong, but perhaps less wrong than in other cases. Iām not losing sleep.
Walz could have just said ātragic loss of human lifeā and not try to get sympathy for the healthcare industry.
Why Iām a utilitarian. Morals need to be a little flexible to be able to account for all situations. I believe in the greater good.