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Sick tribute at site of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 5, 2024 | Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 12/05/2024 5:58:36 PM PST by Morgana

A sick tribute appeared outside the New York City hotel where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down by an assassin on Wednesday.

A balloon with a sign taped to it reading 'CEO DOWN' over the image of a smiling star and party poppers was found outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan after Thompson, 50, was gunned down there Wednesday morning.

The balloon was spotted as many Americans have joked about the CEO's death due to his company's track record of rejecting medical claims.

The same image on the balloon was also shared on former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz's BlueSky account.

'People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,' she wrote in a separate post.

'As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the [people] in power who enable it.'

In perhaps the most shocking post, Lorenz shared a news report about Blue Cross Blue Shield announcing it would not cover anesthesia for the full length of certain surgeries in some states.

She wrote: 'And people wonder why we want these executives dead.'

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bluesky; brianthompson; california; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; murder; nancypelosi; taylorlorenz; unitedhealthcare; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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I didn't see this coming.

I was expecting more of a jazz funeral New Orleans style when they buried him.

1 posted on 12/05/2024 5:58:36 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Every penny they spend on his funeral is a penny that was taken from someone who was suffering because the insurance company refused to pay.


2 posted on 12/05/2024 6:02:44 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Morgana

I think Health Insurance and Pharma leadership is starting to get the idea that they are as popular as herpes. Maybe they should quit being predatory reptiles?


3 posted on 12/05/2024 6:03:00 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: Morgana

the same leftists the weep when we execute murderers, love the fact that this poor innocent CEO was murdered.

Liberals are evil.


4 posted on 12/05/2024 6:05:53 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Go to Europe or Canada for Healthcare libs


5 posted on 12/05/2024 6:18:03 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Poor innocent CEO? Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha *gasping for breath* hahahahahahahahahahaha


6 posted on 12/05/2024 6:18:49 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I’m with you - he was doing a job. Would liberals walk into a restaurant and kill the chef because the prices were too high?

I’m guessing the killer was a guy who wanted to be a woman and felt all the rest of the policy holders should pay for his $150,000 ‘transformation’...


7 posted on 12/05/2024 6:19:22 PM PST by GOPJ (Should a 30 year old man self-identified as being ten, be allowed to play little league baseball?)
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To: Morgana
The left does not believe in rule of law. At all even a little.
When they talk about rule of law it is hypocrisy.

It is simply OK with them to shoot certain people in the back as they walk down the street.

8 posted on 12/05/2024 6:25:49 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven. )
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To: Morgana

You should read the comments over at DU.

Disgusting.


9 posted on 12/05/2024 6:27:17 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Morgana

I wonder if she realizes there are 10s of millions who feel the same way about “Journalists”.

Ill wishing anyone is a very very bad idea no matter how “evil” you feel they are.


10 posted on 12/05/2024 6:34:42 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: GOPJ

He was THE man responsible for unmeasurable human suffering, bankruptcy and death, as he denied justified claims to insurance his customers paid for. He was under investigation for massive insider trading. He made money off tranny surgery.

I’m not the type to celebrate him getting murdered. But he was a scumbag and his callous decisions lead to getting gunned down as he was walking into a meeting to brag how his depravity was raising the bottom line.

I have better things to worry about. This is just a curiosity for most people.


11 posted on 12/05/2024 6:39:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: Morgana

Well, Blue Cross is again now willing to pay for anesthesia all the way through your surgery, instead of cutting it off when a timer goes off. Because some beancounter without medical training in a cubicle decides how long the surgery should take.


12 posted on 12/05/2024 6:42:58 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Wrong. Anesthesiologists take advantage and surprise billing. BC was putting them on notice. But we have some Rainmaker characters on here unable to realize another side to this.


13 posted on 12/05/2024 7:05:30 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“ Liberals are evil.”

Quite a few people here on FR are lining up them.
The ghosts of those storming the Bastille and the 1918 Bolsheviks killing the Tsar have come back.

And I agree, there are things that need to be corrected .


14 posted on 12/05/2024 7:11:49 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Morgana

Is that incredibly old Taylor Lorenz?

CC


15 posted on 12/05/2024 7:49:43 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Morgana

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield makes major U-turn following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

kill the rooster, scare the monkey...


16 posted on 12/05/2024 8:23:16 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: DesertRhino

And that justified the murder of a father?


17 posted on 12/05/2024 9:14:24 PM PST by Ennis85
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To: Morgana

UnitedHealthcare deployed AI that they knew was faulty to deny healthcare to elderly patients. The AI was known to have a 90 percent error rate. Imagine dying from something or being bankrupted because the insurance company you paid premium to for years knows you can’t fight back.
The guy who delivered karma to Brian Thompson with “Deny” “Delay” “Defend” engraved on it is an American hero. If he is caught, I hope Trump gives him a presidential pardon.


18 posted on 12/05/2024 10:23:02 PM PST by anthropocene_x
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Look over there.

Don't look at Nancy Pelosi's insider trading deals and this guy being under investigation for it.

19 posted on 12/05/2024 10:29:42 PM PST by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: GOPJ
I’m with you - he was doing a job.

Don't give my that bullshit, the days are long gone where you can hide behind "I was just doing my job". Adolf Eichmann was "doing a job". And no, I'm not comparing this guy to Eichmann but illustrating the ridiculousness of your argument. Whether you think the guy was a saint or not, the fact remains that people are damned well fed up and tired of being screwed over by the predatory insurance companies and this illustrates how close we are to boiling over. Louis XVI ignored how pissed the people were also and ended up with an impromptu shortening. Corporations have become entirely too comfortable with screwing people over by "doing a job", we ignore the reaction to this guy's killing at our own peril. It's time to wake up.

20 posted on 12/05/2024 10:35:14 PM PST by GaryCrow
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