Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.

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    10 hours ago

    Well, what do you want them to do? Pay for the services people pay them for? Kill fewer people? If they did those things their shareholders wouldn’t make as much profit. Their CEO wouldn’t be able to say things like “we guard against unnecessary care” and he wouldn’t be a multimillionaire not even living in North America. He might even have to realize that doctors order care in good faith, so unnecessary care is almost not a real thing.