{"id":28417,"date":"2024-12-14T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/unitedhealth-chief-admits-us-health-system-does-not-work-as-well-as-it-should\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:53:12","slug":"unitedhealth-chief-admits-us-health-system-does-not-work-as-well-as-it-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/unitedhealth-chief-admits-us-health-system-does-not-work-as-well-as-it-should\/","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth chief admits US health system \u2018does not work as well as it should\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times essay, Andrew Witty also says slain healthcare CEO Brian Thompson cared about customers<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, whose chief executive officer was shot to death outside a New York City hotel on 4 December, conceded that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/healthcare\">US\u2019s patchwork health system<\/a> \u201cdoes not work as well as it should\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But in a guest essay published by the New York Times, UnitedHealth Group\u2019s CEO, Andrew Witty, maintained the slain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">Brian Thompson<\/a> cared about customers and was working to make the system better.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/14\/unitedhealth-group-chief-andrew-witty-new-york-times-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times essay, Andrew Witty also says slain healthcare CEO Brian Thompson cared about customers The leader of the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, whose chief executive officer was shot to death outside a New York City hotel on 4 December, conceded that the US\u2019s patchwork health system \u201cdoes not work as well &#8230; <a title=\"UnitedHealth chief admits US health system \u2018does not work as well as it should\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/unitedhealth-chief-admits-us-health-system-does-not-work-as-well-as-it-should\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UnitedHealth chief admits US health system \u2018does not work as well as it should\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}