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Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 5 Oct 2024 · owen-1254
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“What does matter for their business is their ability to increase their quarterly profits, which are currently in the astronomical range of more than 5,000,000,000 dollars every quarter. And that has to go up to keep Wall Street Happy. It has to go up every quarter.”
After sampling hostile TikTok comments about UnitedHealthcare, the author argues UHC does not need to care about its PR problem; what matters is growing quarterly profits (more than $5 billion per quarter), which must rise every quarter to satisfy Wall Street.
Descriptive, retrospective, or a statement of preference; no future state asserted.