UnitedHealth chief admits US health system ‘does not work as well as it should’

In a New York Times essay, Andrew Witty also says slain healthcare CEO Brian Thompson cared about customers

The leader of the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, whose chief executive officer was shot to death outside a New York City hotel on 4 December, conceded that the US’s patchwork health system “does not work as well as it should”.

But in a guest essay published by the New York Times, UnitedHealth Group’s CEO, Andrew Witty, maintained the slain Brian Thompson cared about customers and was working to make the system better.