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UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassination triggers outpouring of hate directed at health insurance industry
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 6, 2024 | James Reynolds

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: california; murder; nancypelosi; taylorlorenz
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To: algore

“..Fauci has better protection than the SS gave Trump...”

True. The rotten SOB doesn’t deserve it and even that may soon change.
And as a side note, NO amount of “protection”, other than the blood of Christ, is gonna save his evil arse from busting hell wide open.


41 posted on 12/06/2024 4:18:02 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Recovering_Democrat

The ultimate solution is to submit to the authority of God’s Word, and a culture will be changed so that men will be ashamed to be dishonest.
....................................

That’s right!!


42 posted on 12/06/2024 4:47:14 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Morgana

I’m exactly as sad and outraged as I am when a looter or carjacker meets *their* just fate.

Good luck finding 12 people who don’t hate health insurance companies!


43 posted on 12/06/2024 5:02:31 PM PST by Aeneas2112 (YOU are your own first responder)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

With due notation that what was said about Oswald right after JFK was also a lot of disinformation too.


44 posted on 12/06/2024 5:40:22 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Biblebelter
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated personal computers didn't exist. Payroll computers and dedicated scientific computers existed. But you couldn't type in "Lee Harvey Oswald" because there was nothing to type into, no duckduckgo, no google, no Wikipedia. Libraries had card catalogs, not data terminals.

And yet immediately we heard arcane details about Lee Oswald's life. I've got to find that book you recommended "Heritage of Stone". Thank you.

45 posted on 12/06/2024 5:51:57 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: PGR88

“ The health-insurance industry is ONLY operating within the hairball system of rules, regulations and state-directed cronyism that the likes of Obama and Pelosi, leftists/progressives in Congress, and particularly, bureaucrats in FDA and HHS, have created”

You are 100% right


46 posted on 12/06/2024 5:56:04 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Morgana

I’m pulling for him.


47 posted on 12/06/2024 6:08:34 PM PST by sport
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To: Morgana

After the COVID BS I lost all resect for the Healthcare Industry and do not trust doctors anymore. I will not take any injection and research every drug the doc wants to prescribe. I have found effective alternatives to all of it.
My doctor is the Medicare doc and I have to go see hmm now every six months. I take no pharmaceuticals and he has quit trying to goad me into COVID and flu shots.


48 posted on 12/06/2024 7:29:30 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe.)
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To: Morgana
What I saw at the Coup

https://www.forumsforums.com/threads/bracken-what-i-saw-at-the-coup.74830/

49 posted on 12/06/2024 7:32:32 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe.)
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To: Chode; sport; Steely Tom; No name given ; All
What I saw at the Coup

https://www.forumsforums.com/threads/bracken-what-i-saw-at-the-coup.74830/

50 posted on 12/06/2024 7:34:16 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe.)
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To: MtnClimber

The leftist elite is able to provide for their own medical needs without having to deal with corporation doctors and Government Health.


51 posted on 12/06/2024 7:36:32 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe.)
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To: arthurus

a blast from the past, an oldie but a goodie...


52 posted on 12/06/2024 8:29:19 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Morgana

kill the rooster, scare the monkey...


53 posted on 12/06/2024 8:29:59 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: arthurus

That’s very good.


54 posted on 12/06/2024 8:48:31 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Chode

There is a certain patina of relevance there.


55 posted on 12/07/2024 4:27:33 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe.',)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
You can read it for free on internetarchive dot org. You have to sign up with an email address, but I didn't see that as a problem. There will be two search engines on the home page. The first one will be the WayBackMachine. Go down the page a bit to the second search engine and enter Heritage of Stone. The title will come up and there will be a borrow button. At my age with my vision, I'd rather read a book online than the old fashioned way. Something else to think about.

The last word must be given to Jack Ruby. Whether he directly fingered Lyndon Johnson as the guiding force in Kennedy's murder and therefore the coup d' état is up for debate. When Jack Ruby was asked in his jail cell who killed John Kennedy, he cryptically responded by saying read J Evetts Haley's book. Although he didn't name the book, he was referring to A Texan Looks at Lyndon. If one reads the book, one will not find any references linking LBJ to the murder of JFK. What one does find interesting is that on March 27, 1952 a good friend of Lyndon Johnson was found guilty of first degree murder by a jury in West Texas. Attached to the verdict was a five-year suspended sentence. Jack Ruby attempted to make the broader point that in Texas political power can make all things possible even getting a way with murder.

The book referenced can also be found on the internet archive.

56 posted on 12/07/2024 8:05:16 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Angelino97

I live in Israel and am fairly happy with our healthcare.

It has its flaws but overall it works. I cant imagine what my costs would be if i lived in the states.


57 posted on 12/07/2024 12:33:42 PM PST by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Grampa Dave

I think there is more to this then possible being denied healthcare by that company.

Maybe the wife hired someone to kill him or his partners in crime did so. This killer was in town for 10 days waiting for him. Why not just kill him back in his hometown?
I think because that would bring suspicion on to the wife or partners.

The killer was not too clever as he stayed at a hostel and left DNA and showed his face and left behind the clothes and backpack to be found and used an unusual gun to kill.


58 posted on 12/07/2024 2:15:45 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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