• Miles O'Brien
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    241 month ago

    Given recent CEO news, he should probably be more concerned with a different kind of “Blowback”… Him putting out something like this just adds fuel to the fire.

  • The Bard in GreenOPA
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    411 month ago

    Witty, clearly reading from a script and dressed casually, defended his industry against accusations it refuses people vital coverage saying “we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or unnecessary care.”

    Witty, a British former pharma executive who is known as Sir Andrew Witty in the UK after being given a knighthood by the late Queen Elizabeth, is facing a Department of Justice probe into insider trading allegations.

    • 1024_Kibibytes
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      181 month ago

      He made $25 million in 2023. He doesn’t have to think about whether a procedure will be covered. Even a $25K procedure, would be 1% of what he made.

    • jrs100000
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      41 month ago

      That guy is either going to get arrested, die in a standoff, or join DB Cooper on a beach in Tahiti. Whatever happens, he wont be assassinating any more people. These guys need to be worried about the copycats.

  • @gramie@lemmy.ca
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    171 month ago

    I’m confused by your use of the word “earned”. I don’t think it fits in this context.

  • @Blade9732@lemmy.world
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    761 month ago

    You guard against unnecessary or dangerous care? Fuck you. A patient’s doctor is who determines the care, subject to his license, the state board and the justice system. If you truly need to double check a doctor’s decision, Only an impartial board of doctors, with no financial interest and subject to their liability, should override the doctors decision.