Posted on 12/06/2024 2:47:14 AM PST by Libloather
Health insurance companies have started removing images of their leadership teams from their websites following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The 50-year-old was murdered on Wednesday morning when a masked gunman unloaded several rounds outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan.
Thompson was named UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2021 and earned a reported $10 million a year, and for several years prior he ran the Medicare business within UnitedHealthcare.
His company took down his image and other executives' photos on Wednesday, while CVS Health removed pictures of all of their top executives on Thursday.
Robert D'Amico, founder of Sierra One Consulting who has previously worked for the FBI, said the removal showed they had been listening to security experts.
D'Amico said: 'These companies are hearing what experts like me have been saying about how easy it is to identify and then find their executives.'
Glen Kucera, president of Enhanced Protection Services at security firm Allied Universal, added: 'I think there's going to be a lot of executives that are going to say, "Hey, you know, this could happen to me and we should really consider our security protocol going forward."'
D’Amico said he expects corporate boards of directors to reassess their security plans for executives.
That would include asking for assessments on how big a security detail to deploy while weighing the cost. He said people like Elon Musk have 20 people around them every day.
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(and resent the guys who live lush lives, get all the health care they want/need, and also deny those who pay the salaries...)
Oh, like the Senators that pushed Obamacare on all of us little people BUT made sure that THEY were EXEMPT from it? /John McCain
Who claimed he was “fighting Obamacare every day” and then voted against the repeal with a thumbs-down 👎👎👎.
Any insurance company that denies that level of in-network claims is a scam. No wonder the CEO was shot.
Elsewhere 32% was reported. How was the data for such a percentage collected? Also there was no identifcation if this was the rate for the most recent year or past year or average for many years. Also was the denial counted if it was based on a wrong medical code that was later corrected?
How many of the denials were justified according to the policy or false submissions by the insured?
Is the "37%" number being promoted as justification for murder?
Is that just the money he earned or the total compensation package? Does it include the perks and stock options that run it up double or triple the amount? Still, $10 million is a lot.
Typical Corporate response, increase security rather than ask themselves why they are such heartless greedy assholes that their customers literally want to kill them.
People understand street justice. They don’t understand seemingly random mass shootings. It would be better if people could get justice in court, but our government hasn’t cared for a long time. For the last four years all they seemed to care about is foreigners. It’s all set up for the lawyers and the court systems and jails and prisons.
Reactions I've seen are people celebrating it, mostly due to UHC's AI enabled denial of almost every life-saving treatment. That happens to be true, BTW: UHC leads the healthcare industry by A LOT when it comes to denial of coverage across the board.
Doesn't mean their CEO should be murdered in cold blood though.
Dershowitz thinks it might be related to the insider trading investigation. I’ve seen other speculation that it could related to mandatory Covid jabs or get fired, etc..
Since AARP endorses and partners with UHC steering all their subscribers to UHC's Medicare coverage plans, I guess the CEO of AARP is next then?
Can't wait to see that: some masked gunman rolls up in their wheelchair and takes a shot. (that was SARCASM folks... Not advocating for any such thing.)
I wonder if such expensive security measures will *force* insurers to raise insurance rates to cover the costs.
I don’t condone it but I understand it. The health insurance companies are bleeding America white thanks to Obamacare. The health insurance industry has essentially been regulated to the point of nationalization. The CEO who was shot was essentially a government employee and a real bastard of a bureaucrat.
My eyes are dry.
Who can know from the reporting but regardless, it’s the number that’s being published.
And that’s just it... considering the total un-compensation package context, as in what the average person is dealing with, like: unaffordable premiums and deductibles, battling the insurance bureaucracy for the crumbs of coverage, not to mention those who’ve had loved ones die while in the delay and deny loop... $10 mil a year is
not a good look.
I think those are valid possibilities as well
We were lied to about EVERYTHING regarding COVID-19(84)
I would have no problem seeing Fauci and his co-conspirators
on trial at NUREMBERG II and then executed
7+ million dead and extensive damage to nearly everything else
You described a corrupt and cynical society that continues its downward path. Our systems and institutions are too big, too interconnected to succeed.
The feral givernment has metastasized, basically ruined health care industry. Many in the industry welcomed the feral givernment with open bank accounts for deposits, and being human beings will look out for their own business interests. If the ferals cut reimbursement, the insurance shifts the costs to the private pay, who can keep afloat by raising premiums and denying benefits. So many people are dependent on this system that they cannot imagine living in a world where the feral givernment gets completely out of the business.
Conceptually, it would be far cheaper to give each person $10,000/year in a health care account to pay premiums or for health care expenses, but that won’t solve the problem either. There will have to be another feral labyrinth set up to approve the transactions went to legitimate medical expenses. Then like givernment getting in the college tuition business, like universities, the insurers will jack up their premiums so people’s 10,000 goes to pay premiums and not have any left over to pay expenses. Congress will jump back in to increase the annual premiums every election season to cover the cost of the increase and the continued devaluation of the dollar.
There is no answer but for the health system to continue on its path of proving the second law of thermodynamics exists and collapse. It will be painful and no prescription will alleviate that pain.
Having a critical mass of people viewing a cold-blooded murder as justice because the system is corrupt is very concerning but not surprising in the country the demonkkraps and culture with plenty of RINO help... and the voters who put them in office. This is what you wanted, so don’t cry and whine - blame yourselves. Turning away from God, especially His 10 Commandments, as individuals has had a cumulative destructive effect on our country. We did not get here overnight, and saner people are being called to fight this evil - murder in our society is to be condemned always and those who promote it need to be corrected, and if they persist in their eveil, then ostracized from the public square.
“The health insurance industry has essentially been regulated to the point of nationalization.”
Big business brings regulation upon themselves, and then some complain when they are trapped. But as long as they are fed a stream of income that keeps them in the black, they’ll play along. That’s why in theory, competent and educated citizens in control of their republic’s government would not allow this crap to happen.
What is odd about the assassin, is he did this on the cheap. If the articles are correct, he road into town on a Greyhound bus and stayed at hostels at least a week before doing the dastardly deed.
Wow
Jefferson said “When government fears the people, you have liberty”.
I suppose with modern lobbying and corruption that is in some cases indistinguishable from the strict definition of fascism that government and some business are one.
The response from the healthcare industry is one that indicates that they now fear their customers. I would suggest that if you have to fear your customers, something is wrong in your business.
Commerce classically occurs when a willing seller provides a product or service from a willing buyer.
Presumably both parties are happy in a classical transaction schenario. When one of them is angry enough to kill the other, there is a problem with a business model.
Maybe Kaiser will become less hostile to defensive gun ownership.
This was coming, a blind man could have seen it. Human nature took it’s course. These people learned nothing from history.
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