For the better part of the past week, the largest healthcare company on earth, UnitedHealth Group has had to advise most of American healthcare to detach from its systems. There has been a cyber security attack.
United Healthcare is unimaginably huge. One of its unimaginable, huge subunits is called Optum. One of the companies Optum acquired was called Change Healthcare—acquired for $13 Billion.
One of the things that the founders of Change Healthcare might've spent more time with in school is ancient Greek playwriting. Had they done so, they would've been familiar with the concept of hubris. Welcome to The Frontier Psychiatrists, a newsletter, among other things.
To Wikipedia!:
Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ˈhaɪbrɪs/),[1] describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride[2] or dangerous overconfidence and complacency,[3] often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.[4]
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