Posted on 12/06/2024 11:58:45 AM PST by Morgana
The assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson has triggered tasteless celebrations and bad taste support for the gunman who killed him.
Mr Thompson was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning by a masked assassin, who remains on the run and whose motive has not been disclosed.
As news of the cold-blooded killing spread, thousands declared they were happy at news of the horrific killing of the 50 year-old father of two and even cooed over the murderer's apparent good looks.
The moderators of the r/medicine forum had to close a Reddit thread after news of Mr Thompson's death collected more than 500 replies, often critical of UnitedHealthcare. The top comment, from a nurse, was a lengthy parody of a template response denying pay-out for the victim.
'We understand that you were actively “bleeding out,” but this does not exempt you from exploring lower-cost care pathways,' the post said.
UnitedHealthcare, the biggest health insurer by market share in America, was rocked by protests over the alleged systematic denial of pay-outs to patients earlier this year.
Authorities found three live bullets and three spent casings at the scene, which they said had the words 'depose', 'deny' and 'defend' scrawled on them.
This drew comparison to the similarly titled 2010 book 'Delay, Deny, Defend' - a scathing criticism of 'why insurance companies don't pay out and what you can do about it' - and sparked wide speculation online.
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Whacko libs have their own “justice system”. Anyone not a lib whacko can be killed at will, from Trump on down.
This is anecdotal but I see a lot of doctors because of my cancer, but my doctors have mentioned that the claims process has really, really, gotten bad over the last year or so.
They also mentioned the worse thing someone could do is change their Medicare Supplemental plan if it’s been working for them to save a few bucks. The new insurance companies are forcing the people that changed plans to go untreated on technicalities (fine print). The doctors can not get approval for treatment.
When you say "Big Pharma," who do you actually mean and why do they deserve "energy" directed toward them?
Mask ? I thought it was odd that he wasn’t wearing gloves.
I found out that there are “hand gloves” available. You slide these latex or silicone gloves on and you have functional “hands” that are realistic looking enough for his purposes.
About $150 on eBay.
I was just telling someone this morning that it's likely that he had a bus ticket out the same way that he took a bus from Georgia to New York.
Buses are the least surveilled method of interstate travel, so it makes sense that the killer took a bus to New York. It's not a stretch to think that he pre-purchased a bus ticket for that same day to somewhere else and then went to the bus station right after killing Brian Thompson, traveling through Central Park to get lost in the crowd of people before the police could assemble all the camera images to begin to identify him and backtrack his travels.
I think he left the city that same afternoon of the killing.
-PJ
“Fox News is reporting that the killer may have left New York City.”
The killer is out of the East Coast by now.
I’m having a corneal transplant next month. Had to switch insurance companies to get the $4,000 cornea paid for. United Health Care would pay for the surgery but not the cornea. And the stupid rules say I can’t pay for it myself. How crazy is that?
Fortunately, I was able to find a company that does pay for it, so I’ll be OK.
Ya think people nowadays don't understand government at all levels as an epic corrupt con-job, who's policies are only designed to seize more and more of their money and assets?
C'mon.
Big insurance/health care...Same thing.
The Left’s dream of “eating the rich” is slowing coming to pass.
“Perhaps some of that “energy” could be directed at Big Pharma and The Covidians.
The death toll via their hands is a whole lot higher. They could start with the big Fauxi....there’d be no tears shed....”
Fauci has better protection than the SS gave Trump
You are sooooo correct. They created that which they hate.
After what I read about this guy, I’m not sure that I like him too much either.
I think this guy was a do-it-yourself lone assassin.
I’m still trying to figure out how a twenty-year old dietary assistant at a nursing home found himself on top of a roof with a near perfect kill shot at a former POTUS and present candidate for POTUS.
No way that kid was a lone assassin.
Thank to Divine Intervention, the first part of the assassination plot was not executed, but the second part succeeded which was to make sure the shooter would tell no tales.
Who actually thinks that way?
Far too many.
It’s a symptom of a political system that is not working. People’s will and welfare be damned. This is what happens and I have a hard time not seeing this as karma.
Garrison wrote, there was too much about Oswald and that it came too soon. There was a pre-fabricated quality about the whole affair.
This was all being reported just a couple of hours after Kennedy was shot and before Oswald was even in custody. In the 21st century such detailed information would not be given a second thought, but it was decades before the first Facebook account.
You’ve also got big companies breaking rules that they know the little people can’t afford to challenge legally.
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