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Speaker 1: Let's see. But one of the things that's broken about

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Speaker 1: This morning, I'm in Lake Havasu, Arizona, the west coast

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Speaker 1: The assassination of CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione is

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Speaker 1: company that makes billions, inflicting misery on millions. That's the

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Speaker 1: business model. Now, when you pay for insurance, the expectation

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Speaker 1: Andrew Witty, who was Brian Thompson's boss at the United

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Speaker 1: York Times, and there Andrew Whitty subjects the reader to many,

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Speaker 1: many paragraphs of platitudes, platitudes about healthcare, platitudes and lies

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Speaker 1: the entire editorial is deceptive, starting with this at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: mister Andrew Witty. But that's not how he was introduced

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Speaker 1: he purports to speak for in this paragraph, which is

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Speaker 1: an astonishment, if I may read it. The people of

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Speaker 1: technologists and more, they all come to work each day

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Speaker 1: Let me just say, as a customer of United Healthcare

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Speaker 1: It is miserable to deal with. It exists in a

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Speaker 1: adds misery to millions and millions of people. It is

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Speaker 1: the business strategy, and to pretend otherwise is to add

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Speaker 1: more insult on top of the misery. The simple truth is,

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Speaker 1: there is not one sentence that acknowledges what it is

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Speaker 1: it is calls to who knows what? I will begin reading,

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Speaker 1: announce changes. Instead, They've been conduct all their life to

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Speaker 1: man overpaid to service, the dressing up of the denial

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Speaker 1: of claims that are at the heart of the company's strategy.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you some examples from the piece. We

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Speaker 1: know the healthcare system does not work as well as

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Speaker 1: it should, and we understand people's frustrations with it. No

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Speaker 1: and no one did. It's a patchwork built over decades.

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Speaker 1: Our mission is to help make it work better. We

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Speaker 1: are willing to partner with anyone as we always have

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Speaker 1: healthcare providers, employers, patients, pharmaceutical companies, government and others to

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Speaker 1: Hit is all bullshit. The American people see it, they

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Speaker 1: the world, as its shrunk, has become more remote and

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Speaker 1: more isolated, adding to the misery. The truth of the

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Speaker 1: matter is people are not alone in dealing with this company.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who deals with it, from the doctor, from the nurse,

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Speaker 1: what it is. A cancer on the healthcare system. Let

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Speaker 1: me keep reading. Healthcare is both intensely personal and very complicated,

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Speaker 1: and the reason behind coverage decisions are not well understood.

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Speaker 1: We share there some of the responsibility for that. Together

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Speaker 1: how decisions are made. Behind each decision lies a comprehensive

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Speaker 1: While the health system is not perfect, every corner of

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Speaker 1: What sir Andrew does, what his great skill is, is

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Speaker 1: insurance guarantees. That he's a genius, the greatest doctor of

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Speaker 1: them all, But he's not. What he is is a

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Speaker 1: me keep reading from his essay of platitudes. Clearly, we

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Speaker 1: That is the purpose of our organization. No, sir Andrew,

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Speaker 1: the purpose of your organization is to return shareholder profit,

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Speaker 1: and none benefit more than you do, Sir Andrew. The

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Speaker 1: Here's the truth. We have a lot of Brits in America,

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Speaker 1: the company, it's a wretched, miserable misery machine. It does

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Speaker 1: so intentionally, purposefully. Nobody who deals with United Healthcare doesn't

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Speaker 1: get it. So Sir Andrew should save his empty words

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Speaker 1: There's a lot at stake right now, and a lot

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Speaker 1: awful amongst us. Sir Andrew somehow feels pressure. He feels

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Speaker 1: like this story is about him somehow, and so he

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Speaker 1: Maybe it does to a deluded CEO class that will

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Speaker 1: Sir Andrew, that was great. What a notp aad brilliant,

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Speaker 1: brilliant genius, What a leader you are? Might you speak

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Speaker 1: at Davos? What can you tell us there, Sir Andrew?

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can join a panel and talk about trust.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,

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