The CEO of the health insurance and medical products company UnitedHealth GroupAndrew Witty acknowledged this Friday that the United States health system “does not work as well as it should” following the shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of its insurance division, UnitedHealthcare.
“We know that the health system does not work as well as it should and we understand people’s frustrations about it. No one would design a system like the one we have,” he stressed in an opinion article published in The New York Times. .
Witty has explained that the mission of the multinational is to improve health care, although the system is “very complicated.” “We share part of the responsibility in this,” he said, thus urging work to change decision-making in this regard.
Despite this, he has stated that no worker, regardless of their sector, ““should fear for the safety of his loved ones”. “We are also having a hard time finding meaning in this excessive act and the hostility against our colleagueswho have been bombarded with threats,” he added.
The authorities of USA They arrested Luigi Mangione, 26, on Tuesday at a McDonald’s in the city of Altoona, in the state of Pennsylvania, while he was carrying a pistol and a silencer built with a 3D printer.
Mangione was carrying several false identifications at the time of his arrest. The young man, who was born in Maryland and belongs to a wealthy Baltimore family, attended a segregated private high school and later graduated from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, considered elite in USA.
The suspect, who faces five charges, including one for intentional homicide, suffered from back pain since childhood, a health problem for which he underwent surgery. Investigators suspect that the motive for the crime would be his rejection of the insurance industry, which he accuses of being corrupt.
Thompson, 50 years old and with a two-decade career in UnitedHealthassumed management of the insurance division in 2021. At the time of the murder he was preparing to attend the multinational’s annual investors conference.
