UnitedHealth’s $4.3 Billion Quarter of Compassion
- Matthew Zachary
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
UnitedHealth just pulled in $4.3 billion this quarter and called it performance. The rest of us would call it extraction. They dropped 70,000 people from commercial and Medicaid plans, replaced them with 85,000 new seniors in Medicare Advantage, and called the math compassion.
Less than 20% of their customers are old enough to remember dial-up, yet that slice drives half their revenue. The government pays $1,715 a month per senior. For everyone else, about $200.
When your profit depends on who ages into the system, care becomes currency and customers become collateral.
78% of UnitedHealth’s revenue now comes from the public. That’s a subsidy disguised as innovation. They own the insurance, the clinics, the pharmacies, and the billing company. Integration disguised as independence. They’re charging us to pay themselves.
It’s like if Blockbuster bought Netflix and still sent late fees.
This is what happens when healthcare becomes an asset class instead of a public good. Investors call it performance. Everyone else calls it Go Fund Me.
The same market that broke it can fix it if greed ever learns empathy.
Transparency, competition, and common sense still matter. Healthcare should work like everything else we pay for without fear, fine print, or a middleman skimming off the pain. Strip out the bullshit and you remember the point. Profit was never the patient.
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