The boss of the health insurance CEO shot and killed last week says the present health care system needs work.

I'm David Brancaccio, the head of the parent company of United Healthcare, whose colleague Brian Thompson was murdered outside a New York hotel last week,

has written an opinion piece acknowledging America's health care system is flawed and

needs to be fixed. The piece appears in the New York Times. Here's Marketplace's Nancy Marshall

Genser. In his op-ed, United Health Group CEO Andrew Woody portrayed Thompson as a brilliant,

kind man. Woody said the health system doesn't work as well as it should, adding that, quote,

we understand people's frustrations with it. Woody says United Health Care is willing to partner

with anyone to, quote, find ways to deliver high quality care and lower costs. He also said his

company needs to better explain what insurance covers and how decisions are made.

Today's editorial comes after a video Woody made for employees leaked.

In the video, Woody says United Health will guard against pressures for unsafe care or, quote,

for unnecessary care to be delivered in a way which makes the whole system too complex and

ultimately unsustainable. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

Retail and wholesale inflation data this week confirmed it once again, but core inflation,

setting aside volatile food and fuel costs, show inflation just sitting there, parked above

where experts want it to be since

springtime. One might conclude that our central bankers would then refrain from lowering interest

rates next week, but they probably still will make borrowing slightly cheaper. For more on Fed

logic, let's turn to Christopher Lowe, chief economist at FHN Financial in New York.

When they went into the silent period, you know, no comment for two weeks before the meeting.

The last word was, we still have confidence inflation is coming down.

It hasn't actually come down since May, but we're looking at it and thinking, okay, they're going to cut again

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