An Open Letter to UnitedHealth Group after Declining My Employment Application
As Inspired by Rage Against the Machine Live @ Madison Square Garden.
It will come as a surprise—to absolutely no one—that this column’s narrator, the eponymously named “O. Scott Muir,” has a real penchant for gonzo journalism. If “considering the lobster”1 was a profession, I would’ve probably been licensed by now.
Somehow, I got a medical license2 instead, so I’m stuck poking around the healthcare establishment for unorthodox perspectives3 and sassy think-pieces.45
In prior writing, I spent a significant amount of effort on getting just the right degree of snark infused. Generally, this snark pertains to “less than ethical” practices by Big Healthcare. But today, I can say—in all honesty—one of the giants made an unimpeachable decision. At some undisclosed point in the past, the following email hit my inbox (this is a WIN, though, as we will see, perhaps not in the way it first appears):