Isn’t it odd that a company could be so persnickety when it comes to pinching pennies from doctors and patients, and so cavalier when it comes to lavishing executives with hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholders’ money?
Health Care Renewal with more choice words:
What has been missing from most of the discussion of the UnitedHealth Group debacle so far is appreciation for its health care context. This is not merely a scandal about lavish executive pay and sloppy management at a big corporation. This is a scandal about mismangement of one of the largest US health care insurers and managed care organizations.
Shouldn’t we be wondering if “controlling leader who put his interests ahead of the company’s shareholders” also put his interests ahead of the doctors and other health care professionals who had to deal with the company, and most importantly ahead of the patients “served,” it that is the word, by the company?
