UnitedHealth Group CEO Acknowledges ‘Flawed’ U.S. Health Care System

In an op-ed in ‘The New York Times,’ his first public comments on his colleague Brian Thompson’s murder, Andrew Witty said, ‘No one would design a system like the one we have.’

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