Americans’ pent-up fury with the nation’s health insurance industry burst into the spotlight last week after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.
They flooded social media with posts and videos about denials of medical treatments and claims, as well as other frustrations with the complicated system.
The majority of insured US adults had at least one health insurance problem – including denial of claims – in the span of a year, according to a survey released in June 2023 by KFF, a nonprofit health policy research group.
Still, 81% of respondents rated their health insurance as “excellent” or “good,” the same survey found.
Roughly 41% of adults had debt caused by medical or dental bills, according to a 2022 KFF Health Care Debt Survey.
Persons:
Arete Tsoukalas, ”, “, Tsoukalas, Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, Mangione, –, Isaac Rosenbloom, he’s, ” Isaac Rosenbloom, Melanie Duquette, Duquette
Organizations:
CNN, Police, KFF, Survey
Locations:
West Lafayette , Indiana, midtown Manhattan, Pueblo , Colorado, Worchester , Massachusetts