How to Improve Health Insurance

What the United Healthcare slaying has taught us about creating a serviceable health insurance system.

The slaying of Brian Thompson, United Healthcare’s CEO has led to an outpouring of frustration and rage with the U.S.’ for-profit health insurance system. Even former executives have admitted that these companies use “deny, defend, depose” to fraudulently and unethically deny claims for insurance that people paid inflated premiums for while inflating their CEOs’ wages to obscene levels. Doctors have been seething over these unethical practices for years, and UHC and other insurance companies’ thickets of red tape are driving up medical costs and driving doctors to retire early.

Our country needs universal healthcare, but while we’re waiting for government that can pursue that, here are some commonsense ideas for making our disaster zone of corporate health insurance a little less terrible.

This should not be how a sick person spends the time that should be spent healing. Image credit, Shutterstock, used by UConn Today. “Health Insurance Plans ‘Too Complicated to Understand.’”

Make Health Insurance Companies into Non-profit Organizations

This comes from my friend, Alicia Taber O’Brien.

While it’s true that for-profit managers can still make high wages, and that some…