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Dystopian 'wanted' posters of top health CEOs appear in New York City
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 11, 2024 | Rachel Bowman

Posted on 12/11/2024 12:53:14 AM PST by Morgana

Alarming 'wanted' posters of top healthcare executives popping up across New York City prompted police to issue a bulletin warning leaders of the rising threats.

In the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, video shared on social media showed 'wanted' signs featuring other healthcare corporate leaders plastered across traffic control boxes in Manhattan.

The signs featured pictures of Thompson, OptumHealth CEO Heather Cianfrocco and UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty. It is unclear who put the posters up.

The menacing posters were erected on Canal Street - one of Manhattan's busiest thoroughfares - flanked with the red and black words: 'Wanted. Denying medical care for corporate profit. Health care CEOs should not feel safe.'

The signs also included the phrase suspected shooter Luigi Mangione allegedly wrote on the bullets found at the crime scene - 'Deny. Defend. Depose.'

The alliterative trio of words reference a book by Jay Feinman's titled 'Delay, Defend, Deny: Why insurance company don't pay claims, and what you can do about it.'

A New York Police Department bulletin issued Tuesday emphasized the heightened risk on healthcare executives following Thompson's slaying, reported ABC News.

'Both prior to and after the suspected perpetrator's identification and arrest, some online users across social media platforms reacted positively to the killing, encouraged future targeting of similar executives, and shared conspiracy theories regarding the shooting,' the bulletin said.

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


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KEYWORDS: healthcare; insurance; posters; threats
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1 posted on 12/11/2024 12:53:14 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Just did a quick check for stories on this.

Most of them are from the UK enemedia.

Interesting...


2 posted on 12/11/2024 12:57:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

Funny it’s only being reported in the UK?

how many Americans read UK news?

So how soon will it happen again by some nut on the streets?


3 posted on 12/11/2024 1:08:24 AM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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To: mewzilla
Socialist Lefty Rag is also using the shooting to PUSH Govt Death Care .
Where the Gov Workers decide you dont get care anymore because
you cost too much to cure or your too old or you dont vote right party .
NHS dead machine they all love .
4 posted on 12/11/2024 1:29:45 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Morgana

NY post reporting it .


5 posted on 12/11/2024 1:30:43 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: ncalburt

Bingo.


6 posted on 12/11/2024 1:58:47 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: mewzilla

The UK media is leftist. And they will try to sensationalize everything. Yet I will give them a huge amount of credit. They will usually cover stories that everyone else would prefer to ignore.

Among major US media sources, only the New York Post has a similar outlook.


7 posted on 12/11/2024 2:02:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Morgana

“It is unclear who put the posters up.”

Is it really that hard to say something like: Nobody kinda knows anything about who put the posters up, least of all yours truly.

Snark off. But damned if This Guy isn’t getting sick of the phrase “it is unclear” and variants thereof used by fancypants journalists.

Yes. There’s a lack of clarity. But more than that, isn’t there actually total ignorance? And if so, why not just say that? Or does the author have a few guesses, short of total “clarity”, about who put the posters up?


8 posted on 12/11/2024 2:06:42 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Morgana

Meanwhile, dare ye to quietly hold a poster that quotes from the Bible - while standing some distance from a thought police defined: “women’s health facility” (actually: fetal extermination camp[us] aka abortion “clinic”) . . . and you are swiftly arrested in the [former?] United Kingdom.


9 posted on 12/11/2024 2:08:52 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Morgana

All UHC, which has stood out among the insurance companies for keeping costs down by doing public contract negotiation battles with hospital networks.

UHC’s tactics have cost those for-profit hospital networks lots of money, which is returned both to shareholders and to the patients and employers in the form of lower premiums, co-pays, etc.

Made lots of enemies though.


10 posted on 12/11/2024 2:54:35 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Morgana

All UHC, which has stood out among the insurance companies for keeping costs down by doing public contract negotiation battles with hospital networks.

UHC’s tactics have cost those for-profit hospital networks lots of money, which is returned both to shareholders and to the patients and employers in the form of lower premiums, co-pays, etc.

Made lots of enemies though.


11 posted on 12/11/2024 2:54:35 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: ncalburt

To be honest surgeries costing tens of thousands of dollars is not conducive to a practical health care system. A simple hydrocelectomy shouldn’t cost $8000. And $1500 for the anesthesiologist on 45 minutes procedure.


12 posted on 12/11/2024 2:58:38 AM PST by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You )
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To: Morgana

The result of the threats will be higher premiums and / or lower pay-outs.


13 posted on 12/11/2024 3:08:21 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: raybbr

The huge Malpractice costs are the source and very pricey medical technology


14 posted on 12/11/2024 3:31:55 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: mewzilla

There is huge overlapping ownership of media, drug companies, and insurance companies in the USA. All democrat/ deep state adjacent.

It’s why Covid was hyped so much.

They are concerned about this horrid murder starting a note substantive discussion about the abuses of healthcare, media, and insurance.


15 posted on 12/11/2024 3:35:57 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: ncalburt

That’s part of the problem, but it’s the bloated admin portion.

My wife is a doctor. There are something like 3:1 admin to healthcare providers at any given hospital.


16 posted on 12/11/2024 3:37:51 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 12/11/2024 5:13:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
...it’s the bloated admin portion. My wife is a doctor. There are something like 3:1 admin to healthcare providers at any given hospital.

3:1 is a low ratio of administrative support per professional. Pilots, professional athletes, actors, actresses, corporate executives, etc. all have a much higher ratio of administrative support staff to professional staff.

18 posted on 12/11/2024 6:03:57 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ncalburt

Insurance companies were using Death Panels decades before Obamacare.


19 posted on 12/11/2024 8:34:47 AM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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To: cmj328

That’s like saying MacDonald’s made a lot of enemies by keeping down the cost of Idaho potatoes by pressuring the farmers for low prices.


20 posted on 12/11/2024 8:39:07 AM PST by Miami Rebel (pro-)
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