Why United Healthcare Is Easy to Hate

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO prompted an outpouring of glee online. A look into UnitedHealthcare’s business practices—and the American healthcare system as a whole—can help explain why. Guest: Dan Diamond, national health reporter for The Washington Post. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.9	Okay. prices vary based on how you buy. Around lunchtime yesterday, the news broke.
0:48.6	There was an arrest in a case that has dominated my timeline for the last week.
0:53.5	Hi, I'm Diane Messato.
0:54.4	We are coming on the air
0:55.1	because multiple law enforcement officials
0:56.8	say a person of interest is now being questioned
0:58.7	in the New York City murder
1:00.0	of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
1:02.5	They say he's identified as 26-year-old
1:04.4	Louise Emanjean.
1:05.4	It was Wednesday when this shooting took place,
1:08.0	right in Midtown Manhattan, just before dawn. It made an anonymous health care
1:13.7	CEO into a sudden household name. Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning as he walked alone
1:20.9	to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, where the health insurer was holding its annual investor
1:26.3	conference. At 6.48 a.m., officers arrive and find the victim.
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