UnitedHealth CEO says insurer guards towards ‘pointless’ and ‘unsafe’ care in leaked video

The CEO of UnitedHealth Group stated in a leaked inside video that the insurance coverage firm will proceed to work to forestall “pointless” and “unsafe” care that might pressure the well-being care system.

“Our position is an essential position, and we make it possible for care to be protected, acceptable, and delivered when individuals want it,” United Wellbeing CEO Andrew Witty stated within the video tackle to the corporation’s workers following the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was leaked to journalist Ken Klippenstein.

Witty is the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the mother or father firm of UnitedHealthcare. Thompson was killed in what police say was a focused assault in New York Metropolis last week, and a manhunt for the suspect is underway.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in a focused assault final week. The corporation is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. Stephen Maturen/Getty Photographs

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“We guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or for pointless care to be delivered in a method that makes the entire system too complicated and, in the end, unsustainable,” Witty stated.

He added that workers ought to “tune out” criticism of the insurance coverage firm, saying that it “doesn’t mirror actuality.”

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UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty stated the company pays tribute to Brian Thompson’s legacy. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

Witty stated that the corporate goes to “proceed to make it possible, for we put sufferers, shoppers, and members first, as we at all times have finished. The mission of this firm is really to make it possible, for we assist the system in enhancing it by serving to the expertise so people get higher and higher.”

“There may be no person who did extra to attempt to advance that mission than Brian Thompson. And there are only a few individuals within the historical past of the U.S. well-being care business who had a much bigger constructive impact on American well-being care than Brian,” Witty stated. “We’re going to make it possible, for we not solely acknowledge and honor that legacy of Brian; however, we’ll proceed with it.”

UnitedHealth didn’t reply to FOX Enterprise’s request for remark.