[HN Gopher] UnitedHealth paid nursing homes to reduce hospital t...
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       UnitedHealth paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
        
       Author : Jimmc414
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-05-21 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | Jimmc414 wrote:
       | When health insurers create financial incentives to reduce
       | hospitalizations, at what point does cost management cross the
       | line into potentially criminal patient endangerment, especially
       | when the patients themselves have no knowledge that their
       | emergency care decisions may be influenced by secret bonus
       | structures designed to minimize expensive treatments?
        
         | nothercastle wrote:
         | At what point are we willing to prosecute. That's all that
         | matters
        
         | UncleMeat wrote:
         | The article claims that nursing homes were pressured to _add
         | DNRs to people 's records against their will._
         | 
         | That's not just near a the line. That's not just over the line.
         | That's "absolute fucking evil" territory.
        
           | fzeroracer wrote:
           | I'm old enough to remember when Sarah Palin was yelling about
           | insurance death panels and how bad universal healthcare was.
           | 
           | Somehow it always ends up as projection, and none of those
           | same people will care about literal death panels.
        
           | hackernewsdhsu wrote:
           | Time for another bullet to the back of a CEO, and no tears
           | will be shed.
        
       | AStonesThrow wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
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