UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City

[isalaide]

Exactly this. I mentioned this to some degree in my post, but yes. This individual is interesting to say the least.
The gun is whatever, but it's interesting how he used what he had available to him and how effectively they fell off the map in downtown New York of all places. That is not an easy feat, especially around Central Park like that. There are cameras, people, wide-open areas, and police presence at almost all times of day.

The fact that the police have not caught anybody or have any leads within the first few hours is a major blow to their efforts in being able to catch whomever this was going forward.

He was well planned and well prepared, and if and when the cops turn him up, he will have a clean record.

People in the media keep using the word 'assassination', but this fits the profile of a revenge killing. This isn't political. This is personal.

This guy has no intention to offend again, and if he has successfully got away clean, you won't see him pick up a fucking parking ticket for the rest of his life.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Your Dad not get his AIDS treatment fully paid?

Ow the edge…

 

[WelperHelper99]

Not saying that I disagree... but "never" can go out the window pretty quick when the CEOs/C-suite executives of predatory health insurance companies start getting methodically murdered in broad daylight in a major US city and the vast majority of people on Facebook of all places use the laugh emoji to react to it.

It's very clear that this guy shot in the first place, plus all the anecdotes shared in this thread alone (plus tweeter and everywhere else after this incident) that the US healthcare system is fundamentally broken.

Yes its broken. They'll just hire security though, and a new asshole gets a multimillion dollar salary. He just wears Kevlar to work now. He's still fucking rich. And will lobby to make sure nothing changes. It's funny that this guy died, but nothing is going to change because of it

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

I have United through work and they always try to con you into paying them more. There's a clinic that I go to that if you have proof of insurance, it doesn't matter what kind, you only get charged $25. Earlier this year United tried to say they were the ones who paid the $25 each time and I owed them in back pay for all the times I went. Their reasoning made no sense, they should have gone after the clinic and not me if that was the case. No love lost from me

My company’s switching to them at the end of the year and I know a bunch of people who are already going to lose the care they’re getting now, despite all the assurances that “99% of you won’t notice any change at all!” Now we’re almost certainly going to lose a good chunk of our operators with decades of experience who decide retiring early is the lesser hassle, with literally no way to replace them, because you cannot hire a zoomer or millennial in that role, they are physiologically incapable of it.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Hmmm…
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Gott erhalte den Kaiser I guess?

 

[dreamworks face]

They're celebrating because there isn't a person in this country who has never, at some point, known someone who paid for their insurance for years (perhaps decades) and was denied a claim they qualified for. This is how insurance companies work. It's an open secret. They want you to pay for something you expect to never use, then when you need it they'll reel out the Mr. Burns esque legal team to deny you because of some vague clause in a one-thousand page document. They want you to pay and receive nothing. A lot of money is spent lobbying the government to ensure that happens, forever.

Obama made this so much fucking worse it's not even funny. If you go on the internet and you see someone say something nice about the affordable care act, it means they are a fucking shill. I looked up those plans and for like a single 35 old guy, insurance was $400 dollars a month with a $12,000 deductible, and the dems wanted to make it so literally everyone in the country had to have this worthless fucking health insurance or get a huge fine (thankfully the mandate was repealed).

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Irrelevant. People are judged not on thei offspring or spouse but how they behave.

It was a specific response to someone saying something about if he was capable of being loved, not a referendum on his whole life.

Even KF loves an underdog story.

"Even"?

I'm not going to go out and say this guy was an asshole in real life cause I just don't know. But what I do know is that Insurance companies deny healthcare needs to millions annually and let them die (and they do, by the minute) and their management are comprised of a special type of human being that is devoid of empathy and likability and have no place in humanity.

CEOs for these types of places are recruited from the most prized pits of humanity and are further from human than fucking crocodiles. He was by default, a fucking cunt.

He was essentially homegrown. His profile is in an article linked in the OP. U of Iowa valedictorian, PWC for a couple of years, accountant. UnitedHealthcare for 20 years, starting as a (not the, which is incorrect in the link story) director at parent co in corporate development (M&A). Moved into the business then up to CEO. So, you know, blame the cornfields.

Please let it be a TRA that is mad about the company denying someone life-saving tranny-surgery.
Also, please release a trannifest explaining why you did it.

Funny thing is it will probably turn out to be some other multimillionaire pissed that they took a hacking hit to the stock in Q3.

Or Antifa.

 

[Paranoia Machine]

Yes its broken. They'll just hire security though, and a new asshole gets a multimillion dollar salary. He just wears Kevlar to work now. He's still fucking rich. And will lobby to make sure nothing changes. It's funny that this guy died, but nothing is going to change because of it

We go back to the status quo in 48hrs tops, the man will be replaced within the month officially with his position being filled literally as we speak behind closed doors. Welcome to late-stage capitalism.

Cyberpunk 2077 is now, chooms

Above is the real Cyberpunkening. One corpo down, two will take its place. Night City isn't about saving the world, it's about saving yourself.

 

[neger psykolog]

Yes its broken. They'll just hire security though, and a new asshole gets a multimillion dollar salary. He just wears Kevlar to work now. He's still fucking rich. And will lobby to make sure nothing changes. It's funny that this guy died, but nothing is going to change because of it

The precedent is almost set though. If another health insurance CEO or C-suite person departs this earth under similar circumstances then they may find themselves in a situation where it becomes increasingly difficult to fill the role with anyone who would actually do good at it. Then that becomes a serious problem for shareholders.

There does come a point where a company (or more accurately a type of company/industry) so heavily exploits people who have no choice but to use them and in turn cause so much harm to society through how they work that the system itself has to change.

 

[106.9 the ballsack]

Yes it’s broken. They'll just hire security though, and a new asshole gets a multimillion dollar salary. He just wears Kevlar to work now. He's still fucking rich. And will lobby to make sure nothing changes. It's funny that this guy died, but nothing is going to change because of it

Kevlar vest as a CEO? Maybe. Doubt they would wear a helmet though…

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Obama made this so much fucking worse it's not even funny. If you go on the internet and you see someone say something nice about the affordable care act, it means they are a fucking shill. I looked up those plans and for like a single 35 old guy, insurance was $400 dollars a month with a $12,000 deductible, and the dems wanted to make it so literally everyone in the country had to have this worthless fucking health insurance or get a huge fine (thankfully the mandate was repealed).

Fun fact: the CEO was a proponent of the ACA.

 

[The Hardest R]

Tbh I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more. People have just got used to the idea that big business will just rape you and sometimes kill you, and they think it’s funny. A hundred years ago, there was the concept of noblesse oblige. These days that has been replaced by savior complexes who want to micromanage your existence and obsess over how much of a carbon footprint you produce compared to some subnigger from Eritrea.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The precedent is almost set though. If another health insurance CEO or C-suite person departs this earth under similar circumstances then they may find themselves in a situation where it becomes increasingly difficult to fill the role with anyone who would actually do good at it. Then that becomes a serious problem for shareholders.

There does come a point where a company (or more accurately a type of company/industry) so heavily exploits people who have no choice but to use them and in turn cause so much harm to society through how they work that the system itself has to change.

I'm gonna be real, if someone walked up to me and said "here's $200 million a year, be our ceo", fuck it, I'd do it. Most people would. They got paid enough to become expendable.

We go back to the status quo in 48hrs tops, the man will be replaced within the month officially with his position being filled literally as we speak behind closed doors. Welcome to late-stage capitalism.


Above is the real Cyberpunkening. One corpo down, two will take its place. Night City isn't about saving the world, it's about saving yourself.

Oh yeah, this story gets buried in 2 days unless they catch the guy lol

 

[Bassomatic]

Tbh I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more. People have just got used to the idea that big business will just rape you and sometimes kill you, and they think it’s funny. A hundred years ago, there was the concept of noblesse oblige. These days that has been replaced by savior complexes who want to micromanage your existence and obsess over how much of a carbon footprint you produce compared to some subnigger from Eritrea.

100 years ago we had the Ludlow massacre homie.

 

[Bagronkleton]

Nonsense. The people who are that close to this sort of business aren't capable of emotion.

Self-preservation is an instinct even paramecium operate on. If the parasite class doesn't understand fear, they definitely understand self-preservation. If they don't, we can expect to see more human hunting.

I'm more than okay with the latter.

 

[卐ㅤㅤ]

He found out a little too late who he was ultimately accountable to.

 

[Dr. Remulak]

One thing the far (authoritarian) right and far left can agree on is total corpo death, especially for insurance niggers.

We don't talk about lolbertarians and their fetish for getting neckheeled by corpo boot.

Those lolbertarians and their precious gun rights.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Yes its broken. They'll just hire security though, and a new asshole gets a multimillion dollar salary. He just wears Kevlar to work now. He's still fucking rich. And will lobby to make sure nothing changes. It's funny that this guy died, but nothing is going to change because of it

Yeah unless some wise guys menage to poison his food or did some mechanical work on his car or suv like "fixing the brakes".

 

[Shopping Cart Nationalist]

Start your own company or quit crying.

Fucking KILL YOURSELF, NIGGER CATTLE!

 

[CumDumpster]

I'm gonna be real, if someone walked up to me and said "here's $200 million a year, be our ceo", fuck it, I'd do it. Most people would.

Translation: You would be paid $200m/year to fire off emails on UnitedHealthCare's behalf.
I could imagine that getting boring after a while...