
It’s safe to say people don’t have much affection for UnitedHealth. A year ago, the healthcare insurance provider’s CEO, Brian Thompson, was assassinated by Luigi Mangione on the streets of Manhattan. The public’s reaction? Well, let’s just say few tears were shed.
The killing focused attention on UnitedHealth’s history of denying its customers access to healthcare, resulting in a wave of testimonies from furious and miserable customers who’d had to deal with their penny-pinching bureaucracy.