Posted on 12/07/2024 6:50:49 PM PST by bitt
New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicated to reporters Saturday that the UnitedHealth CEO’s shooter has been identified after a days-long ongoing manhunt.
However, he declined to say whether or not they have the suspect’s name, stating that he doesn’t want to tip off “the person we are seeking.”
“We do not want to give him an upper hand at all,” Adams said.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday morning that Brian Thompson was murdered outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by a masked man who police say was waiting for him to arrive.
Surveillance footage shows a masked gunman waiting for Thompson before approaching and firing multiple shots at close range.
Detectives investigating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson uncovered a potential motive: shell casings at the crime scene were inscribed with words, The Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday. The inscribed shell casings—three live 9mm rounds and three discharged casings—bearing the words “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose”—were found among the evidence collected at the scene, indicating the killer was possibly a disgruntled client.
Thompson’s wife, Paulette, further disclosed that the family had received threats prior to the incident, possibly related to disputes over insurance coverage.
After the attack, the gunman fled the scene on an electric bike, disappearing into Central Park.
More on the suspect's flight from News Nation:
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I am right there with you and totally agree with you. That is exactly what I did when I did battle with them. I filed complaints with Insurance Consumer Protectoon agencies, appealed, even filed a Medicaid fraud complaint. Nothing was done.
They bankrupted this woman and she lost her home, her persion, and everything she owned. In addition, their lack of treatment immediately after a stroke contributed to her not regaining her ability to walk or be mobile. It was a death sentence for her.
I’m just saying that with all my contacts, medical expetience, and litigation experience, I was frustrated at every turn. If I was frustrated, people without those attributes would have even greater frustration and anger.
If you saw the number of people that are denied care for which their policy provides out of pure greed, and saw that they were killing people you dearly loved, or potentially you in the future, the response is understandable. Not justified from my own perspective, but understandable.
The class action lawsuit filed in Kentucky outlines what these Advantage Plans are doing. This was a Bush creation and he can burn in hell for it.
Imagine your wife of 50 years, whom you love dearly is denied cancer treatment for which there is a reasonable chance of successfully treating, and she dies a long painful death. Wouldn’t you be angry at their greed.
Apparently you don’t understand what they are doing by denying care that you paid for.
I watched people die painful death due to their denial of treatment. These were not family, but hospice patients. I saw the pain and suffering of the surviving spouses who were very frustrated and felt helpless.
The VA Hospital used to do this same thing by requiring a sequence of tests, each with a long waiting period, to diagnose cancer prior to beginning treatment. During the delay the cancer spread to a level that was beyond treatment. I’m glad they corrected this.
A family member who is a radiologist did his residency at the VA and explained it to me. He couldn’t wait to get out of there.
I am not justifying the murder. I understand why a person who had a loved one murdered by the insurance company’s denial of treatment would justify it in their mind.
This guy made over $10 million per year by killing people.
I’m as much a conservative as anyone on this forum. I recognize the sanctity of life at both ends of the spectrum. I believe in individual responsibility.
However, I also have a heart and compassion for humanity.
If I’m old and already dying, what do I care? I still don’t agree with murder, but I understand why others do feel justified.
I personally don’t care if I die. Been there done that and it was far better than being here on earth. I give vengeance to God.
I have done that many times in the past and the consequences were beyond my imagination. I realize that the greatest harm I could ever do is to my own soul. That is far worse than death.
People get shot every other day in New York City and there is never a national manhunt for them.
Why police act:
1. The victim is a cop or family member
2. Publicity
3. Possibility of getting some poontang
4. Possibility of $ (fines or forfeitures)
5. Possibility of kicking someone’s butt
6. The victim is famous
7. Politics
8. The cop has a grudge and can pin a crime on that person.
Oh, I get it. I get how UHC has been absolutely abusive in the way it treats its members.
I’m with BC/BS and they deny fully HALF what UHC does. There is something wrong with that picture, and it MUST be changed. Either the company must go under or they must change their practices.
There are ways to achieve this. I’m thinking a Class Action lawsuit, to bankrupt them outright, might serve as a lesson to other insurance companies.
But I think we agree: Killing executives is not the solution.
Okay, good. Too many members of this forum have been acting COMPLETELY like liberals. I'm glad to see you are not among them.
It was a serious question...what would you do.
Well, I think the answer is that all those who have been denied must band together and lodge a VERY LARGE Class Action lawsuit aimed at UHC. They deny fully TWO TIMES the industry average. Any class action suit is likely to succeed based upon that.
It would also serve as a warning shot across the bow of other agencies.
To me, this is totally unacceptable anywhere, but most definitely on this conservative forum.
Won't mean a thing if the goal is to find who actually did the shooting. It will be helpful for finding a patsy who happened to be near the shooting and cut through Central Park on their way home.
Remember how they prosecuted the black guy for killing Chandra Levy. Remember how they prosecuted the other black guy for shooting Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK's friend.They just happened to be near the scene.
You are justifying his murder once again.
There is much more to the story...
Pharmacists spoke in favor of H.B. 505 during a recent Ohio House Insurance Committee meeting, making their case as to why pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, need more regulations around their business practices.
The U.S. lost about one independent pharmacy every day in 2023 and is on track to see the same number of closures in 2024, according to the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs.
The three largest PBMs, CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, manage nearly 80% of all prescriptions filled in the U.S., according to the Federal Trade Commission.
You want some numbers...
My own Pharmacy Shut down this last summer. It has been there for decades.
Of course the chamber of commerce is fighting this.
Sic semper tyrannis
There is a difference between justifying a murder and understanding why someone else felt justified to murder. There is a BIG difference.
I may understand how and why a schizophrenic thinks what they do, but that does not mean I agree with their thinking.
The problem I encountered is that it ties back to the neocons.
They own and run the appeals company that acts as an intermediary between the insurance companies and Medicare.
As I recall, they are owned by the Carlisle Group. Remember the investment fund that George Bush Sr. represented after he was no longer president. Carlyle also advised in transactions including, a 1991 $500 million investment in Citigroup by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family.
Frank Carlucci served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration. Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978 to 1981, under Director Stansfield Turner.
As Vice Chairman and then Chairman of Carlyle from 1989-2003, Frank was instrumental in transforming the investment firm into a global institution.
In 1997, Medicare Part C, known as Medicare Advantage, was created as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), signed into law by President Bill Clinton. That’s when this mess to rip people off started.
New York Times Article
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions
“By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
Executives at UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest insurer, told their workers to mine old medical records for more illnesses — and when they couldn’t find enough, sent them back to try again.”
Should you so desire, you may report him, as I did.
We don’t even know why he was gunned down! You seem to think you do. It could be a spurned lover, the ex if his paramour, if he had one, a crazed transsexual. 🤪
Based upon the engraved words on his bullets corresponding to a book on fighting the insurance companies, it gives a strong indication as to his motive.
A far-leftist anti-capitalist nutberger has been arrested. What do you think now?
And none of his "friends" identified him, weird.
Corporate lackeys such as yourself aren’t worth the candle
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