The Press Is Complicit in America’s Health Care Deaths
Major media outlets are giving wall-to-wall coverage to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder while taking millions in health care industry advertising. They’re silent about the real story: how profit-driven health care kills 68,000 Americans every year.
Flags fly at half mast outside the United Healthcare corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024, in Minnetonka, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)
Several years ago, my insurance plan would only cover Admelog insulin to treat my type 1 diabetes, which caused my blood sugar to hover high for months. In the long term, prolonged high blood sugars can lead to complications like blindness and amputation. In the short term, they can lead to a life-threatening condition called diabetic ketoacidosis, which turns blood acidic.
When I asked my doctor to switch me back to Humalog, a type of insulin that had worked for me before, he refused: “It’s going to be too difficult for me to get a prior authorization from your insurance.”
It took weeks, but I was eventually able to convince him. And since then, after many similar experiences, I’ve left my home country of the United States for the Netherlands.
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