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One Leg Up 12-6-24 : We Can Grieve The Shooting of Brian Thompson AND the Record Rate of United Healthcare Claim Denials · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, Well, when I left the podcast waves yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I started looking online and I'm seeing people celebrate the shooting,
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  Speaker 2: celebrate a shooting of a healthcare ceo, United Healthcare CEO,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thompson, and I was utterly disgusted. So I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to interrupt the partying to tell you it's not right
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  Speaker 2: to cheer what happened to Brian Thompson, the shooting of
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thompson. I also want to share a small kind
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  Speaker 2: of parallel, if you will, so towards the end of
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  Speaker 2: my dad's life, it wasn't that we were rejected for
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  Speaker 2: any claim or anything like that, but the hospital itself
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  Speaker 2: was seemingly giving my dad medicine to keep his system going,
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  Speaker 2: which in turn caused him to get more tired and weak,
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  Speaker 2: and unfortunately his body gave out.
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  Speaker 3: And he passed.
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  Speaker 2: And for a while I've held this in, but for
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  Speaker 2: a while I was really sad that maybe what they
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  Speaker 2: were trying to do while they took great care of
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  Speaker 2: him also led to his passing a little more sun
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  Speaker 2: than I had thought. But you know why, when Downstate Suny,
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  Speaker 2: downstate in Brooklyn was threatened to be closed, its existence
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  Speaker 2: was threatened. To be honest with you, I was more
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  Speaker 2: sad than angry. I was more sad than angry because
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  Speaker 2: that hospital did do a lot of great work to
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  Speaker 2: care for my dad. It just rapped the medicine they
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  Speaker 2: gave him, did not help his body. It just moved it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think sped up his end of life care.
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  Speaker 2: But I wasn't angry or upset to the point if
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  Speaker 2: I wanted the hospital close. I was sad that hospital
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  Speaker 2: could close because there were a lot of great people,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great staff, a lot of great.
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  Speaker 1: Nurses in that hospital sunny downstate.
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  Speaker 2: I would have gone and supported them, but I had
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  Speaker 2: to work in staying open when they had those rallies.
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  Speaker 2: I don't wish the demise like it seems like so
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  Speaker 2: many people who are so cold hearted and so have
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  Speaker 2: evil in their heart, wanted the demise of the United
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  Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO. My challenge to myself now is on this
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  Speaker 2: podcast to get someone who was denied by United Healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: because they ranked thirty two percent, which is highest among
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  Speaker 2: the healthcare providers and denials.
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  Speaker 1: That's shocking.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we can grieve the loss and be
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  Speaker 2: upset at the shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Of this CEO and also grieve the fact.
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  Speaker 2: That denials are through the roof at United Healthcare. The
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  Speaker 2: two are compatible. You can be pissed off that someone
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  Speaker 2: took someone I was lifing in their hands and shut
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  Speaker 2: them to death in the middle of Manhattan, and also
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  Speaker 2: be pissed that that company turns down people, even those
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  Speaker 2: who have life threatening.
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  Speaker 1: Illnesses.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can mourn both situations, and I also
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  Speaker 2: think to get a better perspective, I'm hoping for someone
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  Speaker 2: who's been denied by United Healthcare.
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  Speaker 1: To truly come on this podcast and talk with me
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I wouldn't wish the end of the hospital
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  Speaker 2: my dad died at, because they took great grayer in
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  Speaker 2: my father, despite my internal feelings that well, the game
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  Speaker 2: of different medicine, maybe he would have been here a
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  Speaker 2: little longer, but his body gave out, and whatever feelings
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  Speaker 2: I had, maybe that was through grief of upset that
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  Speaker 2: he was gone and the way he passed that week,
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  Speaker 2: went away the minute I realized, Hey, that hospital that
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  Speaker 2: took great care of my father was also closing and
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  Speaker 2: threatened to be closed, And to this day, Sundy Down
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  Speaker 2: Sat Medical Center is still around. Thank God, because hospitals.
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  Speaker 2: That hospital is needed to treat many Brooklyn knights and
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  Speaker 2: men in New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: And if you could think of it that.
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  Speaker 3: Way, think of it that way.
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  Speaker 2: As just now, there are community coalitions, according to Crane's
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  Speaker 2: business pushing the state to maintain hospital beds at Sunni.
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  Speaker 2: There are healthcare workers who have a plan to save
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  Speaker 2: Sudy downstate, and I pray that it does not mean
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  Speaker 2: its demise. But I just thought of a parallel that
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  Speaker 2: family members are probably very angry that their loved ones
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  Speaker 2: have been denied claims three night healthcare, five or two
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  Speaker 2: for every denial, there are same people behind those denied
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  Speaker 2: claims that would not wish the death of anybody, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how hard and how awful it is their claim
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  Speaker 2: was denied. There are same people who to hear from them,
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  Speaker 2: not these rabid occupy Wall streeters or say.
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  Speaker 1: Your next, your necks, blah blah blah. We don't need
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  Speaker 1: to hear that. That's not a message we want to
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  Speaker 1: hear either.
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  Speaker 2: I only mentioned it because it aggravated me so much
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  Speaker 2: that the CEO being killed was worth celebrating. What country
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  Speaker 2: is it where we celebrate a murder happening in midtown Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: The only murder I would really celebrate is when terrorists
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  Speaker 2: get killed. That's rightful to celebrate, not ceo in billionaires.
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  Speaker 2: And I mentioned CEOs are calling up security firms. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Posts today had a great article about it,
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  Speaker 2: as a top security firm has been inundated with calls,
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  Speaker 2: according to Nicholas McIntyre, as CEOs fear for their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Allied University, Allied Universal has been flooded with forantic inquiries
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  Speaker 2: after the shooting, according to Glenn Cusra.
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  Speaker 1: And The New York Times. So it rocked not only.
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  Speaker 2: The healthcare culture but the CEO culture, this shooting. But
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  Speaker 2: it shouldn't be celebrated. It should be condemned. The potential
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  Speaker 2: shutdown of Sudie Downstate. As someone who lost a parent
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  Speaker 2: at Sudie Downstate, the loss of Suity down State would
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  Speaker 2: add to my grief because they took such great care
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  Speaker 2: of my dad.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what, And I would not wish that ill will.
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  Speaker 2: Of anybody's livelihoods in that hospital because they took such
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  Speaker 2: great care.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, even.
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  Speaker 2: If something had gone wrong and it wasn't a natural
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  Speaker 2: death as my dad death was, I would still pray
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  Speaker 2: for that Universal University Hospital. I would still pray for
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  Speaker 2: that hospital stay alive, because those doctors, those nurses do
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  Speaker 2: their damnedest to keep people going in that place.
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  Speaker 1: And really they kept my dad going.
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  Speaker 2: Up until I was able to see him for the end.
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  Speaker 2: And it would grieve me to see that place close,
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  Speaker 2: just like it grieves me to see this healthcare CEO
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  Speaker 2: shot in the middle of Manhattan, and it grieve you too.
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  Speaker 2: Here on the One Leg Up Network, one little side note,
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  Speaker 2: Time Person of the Year President elect Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 2: at sixty eight percent in the running, sixty eight percent
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  Speaker 2: over Elon Musk's at four percent, comeal As at two,
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  Speaker 2: and Joe Biden is at one.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Could be put on the Time cover of the year
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  Speaker 2: a Person of the Year cover, and how sweet.
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  Speaker 1: That would be.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever your family has gone through, if you have
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  Speaker 2: been denied from United Healthcare, please reach out Alex ALEXJNYC
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  Speaker 2: dot com. I'm gonna have a sane conversation from a
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  Speaker 2: perspective of someone whose claim has been denied, not the
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  Speaker 2: rabbidness trying to speak on your behalf when I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: those who haven't victimized by United Healthcare would not want
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  Speaker 2: to see how to become a victim himself. I am
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent sure of that, and that's my stance
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