Posted on 12/05/2024 4:23:05 PM PST by Morgana
UnitedHealthcare has disabled social media comments on its profiles after disgruntled patients began flooding the company with complaints following the assassination of its CEO.
The health insurer has been deluged by comments, many from people who say their or their loved ones claims have been denied. Its most recent Instagram posts announcing the death of Thompson let users like or share the post, but not comment on it.
The company is in the spotlight following the assassination of CEO Bryan Thompson, 50, who was gunned down on his way to an appearance at an investor conference in New York on Wednesday.
Thompson was expected to announce the business' hugely profitable 2025 financial outlook, including expected revenues upwards of $450 billion.
A motive has not been released for the slaying, but police discovered bullets inscribed with the words 'deny', 'defend' and 'depose' at the scene.
The inscriptions bear similarity to the Jay M Feinman's book Delay, Deny, Defend about the viciousness of the health insurance industry.
UnitedHealthcare put out a statement on social media expressing their sorrow following the murder, but was quickly inundated with angry comments. Currently, the most recent Instagram post where users can comment is from November 21.
'Just had a coworker find out she has cancer in her small bowel was denied a PET scan she is a registered nurse. Insurance is a scam and a money grab for the greedy. What a shame,' one person wrote on Instagram.
'UHC has been denying my husband an asthma drug he's been on for five years. It turned him from a very severe asthmatic to someone who barely has asthma at all,' another wrote on Facebook.
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How bad are the Brian Thompson meme's getting? I have not looked.
How many millions did this guy take out of the market over the last 3 years?
What, exactly, was his added value?
{killing him won’t fix a thing.]
UHC is AARP’s partner.
Look what he was doing before he got that gig.
I suspect his previous job may have more to do with this than the one he held when he was murdered.
“..How many millions did this guy take out of the market over the last 3 years?...””
Whatever it it is, it won’t come close to what our Congressional critters take out through insider trading.
It put the fear of God in them.
Think about it. This sniper could have done this any time but he chose that time and place when there were cameras everywhere. He wanted the world to see that happen. Very few seem to care that Thompson is dead and in fact are celebrating. I’d be willing to be they are helping that sniper escape if they did see him.
I also predict that there will be a copycat one in the next several months.
I’m still wondering if it was an unhappy customer (or relative of one) or a professional. A few years ago a guy who had waited 20 years shot the doctor he blamed for his mother’s death as the doctor bicycled to work at the hospital in Houston. Some folks play the long game. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/us/mark-hausknecht-houston-doctor-suspect/index.html
At the very least, other “healthcare” CEOs must be noticing that rejoicing and mocking is rampant.
To me, this guy was no better than a thug who holds up a person or carjacks; got what’s coming to him and to everyone with decision making authority in that company for every single time a legitimate claim is denied or delayed.
{killing him won’t fix a thing.]
Well pilgrim, Anthem just reversed it’new chiseling policy on limiting anesthesia coverage...for openers.
And there are chronic conditions. You probably will not die from them but you will die with them. You will be dependent on either a drug or treatment for the rest of your life.
In the past ten years the insurance companies (with their deep and extensive medical training) have taken in on themselves to deny coverage for medications that people have been taking for ages forcing them to go to their doctors for extensive tests to prove that yes, their heart did not somehow become better, yes their thyroid is still gone and other such delights.
This was not my insurance company and so I personally do not have a dog in this fight but I will say that the number of total jerks at insurance companies does seem to be rising as do their premiums while their service continues a steady downward trend.
This can make people quite annoyed. Possibly even peeved.
“...including expected revenues upwards of $450 billion....”
Someone is getting tubed...guess who. They probably have an incentive program/quarterly goals for the claims adjusters to have the most denials.
“I also predict that there will be a copycat one in the next several months.”
Even more creepy. How are they sure THIS guy is finished? Does he have other targets. He doesn’t seem pro. Seems like he’s on a mission with the message on the casings.
Maybe his mission isn’t finished yet....
I would submit that anyone who say’s violence never solves anything, has never spent much time in careers or situations that feature violence.
It can indeed solve, or prevent problems on occasion.
Just a random, ad hoc, correlation.....
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Where’s Humana on that graphic?
This is how peasants reach out and touch their rulers.
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