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Andrew Witty of UnitedHealthcare sent the message to employees of a major insurance company just hours after his co-CEO Brian Thompson was shot outside a Manhattan hotel on December 4.
Many senior executives in UnitedHealthcare Is under investigation by the Department of Justice, although it is unclear whether CEO Brian Thompson was part of that investigation prior to his murder.
Thompson shot dead Manhattan city center Wednesday morning in what police are calling a targeted attack.
There have been reports that executives have been charged with insider trading and fraud, and last year the DOJ launched an investigation into whether the country's largest insurer was unfairly restricting competitors and operating exclusively. No.
Last month, the DOJ, along with attorneys from Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and New York, filed a lawsuit to block the $ 3.3 billion acquisition of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated by a request for home and hospital health care providers. Rival Amedisys Inc.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO shot dead outside MANHATTAN hotel in suspected 'target' attack
The UnitedHealthcare logo was unveiled outside a store in Queens, New York on Monday, January 14, 2013. (Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The transaction, according to the lawsuit, will eliminate competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys.
According to the DOJ, by eliminating competition, patients receiving home and hospital health services will be at risk, as will insurance companies that contract for home health services and nurses that provide those services, according to the DOJ. According to the DOJ.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said last month: “We are facing this merger because of the health of the home and the patients, the hospital and their families who are experiencing the most difficult times in their lives. “You will get high quality and affordable care options.” “The Department of Justice will not hesitate to monitor illegal unification and monopoly in the healthcare market, which poses a threat to vulnerable patients, their families and health care workers.”
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The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot dead in NYC on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (Fox News Digital / UnitedHealthcare / Fox News)
The two companies see each other as close competitors for home and hospital health services, and UnitedHealth's proposal will eliminate that competition.
The DOJ said UnitedHealth has proposed sacrificing some means to the VitalCaring Group to resolve some overlap between UnitedHealth and Amedisys. The DOJ added that the proposal does not reduce the risk in the health, home, hospital and labor markets of more than 100 people, earning more than $ 1 billion a year and serving at least 200,000 patients while employing at least 4,000 nurses. People.
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Assistant Secretary of State Jonathan Kanter, Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, said: “US health care is not good. Unless this $ 3.3 billion operation is stopped, UnitedHealth Group will expand its holdings in healthcare. “Homes and hospitals, threatening the elderly, their families and their nurses.” Ministry of Justice According to the anti-trust.
FOX Business has contacted UnitedHealth but has not been notified.
