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Comment by xeromal | Hacker News Reader

This hack has been a massive clusterfuck and is responsible for most of my team being canned due to the provider we worked for not having 3/5 of their revenue since February.

What a disaster.

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United healthcare's stock is up 7 points as of Friday, so the free market has delivered its verdict. Soon companies will hire the hackers for the benefit of the shareholders.

I thought UnitedHealth made payments to providers to avoid this issue? For example this article I found (https://news.yahoo.com/medical-providers-still-grappling-uni...) says the following:

> “I don’t think we’ve had a single provider that hasn’t been helped that’s contacted us.” As part of that help, Mason said, UnitedHealth has sent providers $7 billion so far.

Is that misleading? Or am I not understanding something about how all this works?

Not enough to maintain the entire workforce. Basically they have enough to operate a ghost ship. They're doing their best to retain their doctors while letting off auxiliary forces such as IT. My friend is the last one there and just keeping it afloat the best he can.

I should mention that I don't hold it against them.

Ugh that is terrible. Unfortunately given that United is basically a monopoly I doubt they’ll face any consequences. Meanwhile it’s yet another hit for smaller business and another hit for consumers whose privacy has been violated.

This isn't a privacy hit, its probably the worst outflow of all time considering its sensitivity. If this isn't UnitedHealth's reckoning then I think the US is permanently screwed because it just doesn't know how to work properly anymore.

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