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Assassination Is a Leaky Abstraction


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UHC denies medical claims an industry-leading 32% of the time, mixing 90%-error-rate AI with weaponized bureaucracy to avoid paying for patient care. What was surprising was the gleeful re-unification of a divided internet - from MAGA twitter threads to progressive BlueSky conversations to the entire nursing subreddit - over a man’s brutal death on a midtown sidewalk. He was never a line employee, hearing the voices of soon-to-be widows pleading for their insurance company to pay for their loved one’s medical care.

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