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Captain Manning said:
Perhaps what's most mind-blowing about this whole thing is that there's not a whole lot of daylight between the posts I read here, and the posts I have seen from Bluesky.

Can the assassination of scumfuck health care CEOs unite the Internet?
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I mean the sentiment I'm seeing on Instagram, Bluesky, Kiwifarms, Twitter, Facebook is basically all universally the same.
 
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neger psykolog said:
Like 90%+ of the commentary I'm seeing on tweeter is basically positive since the reveal of the "deny, defend, depose" wording/inscription on the bullets/shells was revealed
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Link me plz.
BlewberryNausea said:
CEO Deposer has united the nation, brought peace in our time.
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A smart upper class would see this and realize they need to ease things a little, lift the boot a bit from the plebians' skull and let them live a little. But historically when things get this bad and something like this happens TPTB just double down on the plebes thus causing an uprising.

Big historical events have been triggered by lesser actions.
DogZero said:
Universal Deathcare
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This one.
 
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One thing I don't think anyone has mentioned is, UHC probably had their own life insurance policy on this guy. Big corporations generally do this, so that if their top executives die suddenly, they can get a payout and have enough cash to recruit a new executive to fill the job, plus a little extra. That's part of why the stock didn't drop, UHC will probably get a big insurance payday on this guy's death, and be able to recruit someone for his job with a generous signing bonus. But of course they won't use ALL of the insurance money for the signing bonus, lol no, why would they do that?
 
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Dumbledore's Onlyfans said:
One thing I don't think anyone has mentioned is, UHC probably had their own life insurance policy on this guy. Big corporations generally do this, so that if their top executives die suddenly, they can get a payout and have enough cash to recruit a new executive to fill the job, plus a little extra. That's part of why the stock didn't drop, UHC will probably get a big insurance payday on this guy's death, and be able to recruit someone for his job with a generous signing bonus. But of course they won't use ALL of the insurance money for the signing bonus, lol no, why would they do that?
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Yeah that's called Key Person Insurance. Basically covers the costs of the unexpected loss of someone in the C-suite. I wonder if premiums have suddenly increased for this form of insurance where the company has a lot of ill will.
 
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neger psykolog said:
So I guess the ransomware attack was a bigger deal than anyone has mentioned/realized.

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Article which backs up what this guy was saying: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/u...re-hacked-millions-health-records-ransomware/
More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.

This is the first time that UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the U.S. health insurance provider that owns the health tech company, has put a number of affected individuals to the data breach, after previously saying it anticipated the breach to include data on a “substantial proportion of people in America.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first reported the updated number on its data breach portal on Thursday.

UHG spokesperson Tyler Mason said in a brief statement: “We continue to notify potentially impacted individuals as quickly as possible, on a rolling basis, given the volume and complexity of the data involved and the investigation is still in its final stages.”

The ransomware attack and data breach at Change Healthcare stands as the largest known digital theft of U.S. medical records, and one of the biggest data breaches in living history. The ramifications for the millions of Americans whose private medical information was irretrievably stolen are likely to be life lasting.

UHG began notifying affected individuals in late July, which continued through October.
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So they got hacked/ransomwared (means their database was encrypted) in February and didn't even directly inform customers until late July. So if you had cancer or a loved one had cancer or whatever other serious illness, your claims would've been fucked around with for months on end. Multiple people probably died as a result of this.

That goes beyond incompetence and into fraud territory. Of course it is the actual ransomware gangs that did this attack in the first place and according to the article they scammed UHG and formed a new group and ransomed them again. Russia supposedly lets most of these groups operate with relative impunity (although that has been changing recently)

There's another article from when the hack was first reported: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/change-healthcare-cyberattack/
 
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neger psykolog said:
I mean the sentiment I'm seeing on Instagram, Bluesky, Kiwifarms, Twitter, Facebook is basically all universally the same.
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On a lark, I popped over real quick to Stormfront (one of the more extremist sites I could think of)...


They think his death is righteous.

Then I went over to ReeeesetERA.


Pretty much the same.

The mods even had to put this amusing warning up:

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It's surreal.

Is there ANY notable forum, left or right, that laments this asshole's death?
 
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Smug Cat said:
It is, and the fact that you made it tells me you must have lived a very cushy life to be so naive. There are a lot of really horrifyingly abusive family members out there, and if you're the wife or child of someone this rich and powerful, it's much harder to get away.

And again, you don't become this kind of CEO without being a sociopath.
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You're fantasizing there's a dreadfully abused, terrified family here? Based on? Jfc, I'm one of the louder mouths around here about some men being narcissistic shitheads, but this is quantum leap fantasy.

I'mma real anime gurl said:
Is it ghoulish to cheer for the death of the biggest ghoul of them all?
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Technically, his boss would be a bigger one.

And no, that's not me agreeing with the premise.

But that initial comment was more about the reaction than it was about the murdered subject of it.
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Here's hoping his death insurance doesn't cover murder.
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Of course it does, wtf, that's standard. But beyond standard, who would buy life insurance (n.b.: it's called life insurance) for an exec with a company that everyone hates and agree to that exclusion?

Dumbledore's Onlyfans said:
One thing I don't think anyone has mentioned is, UHC probably had their own life insurance policy on this guy. Big corporations generally do this, so that if their top executives die suddenly, they can get a payout and have enough cash to recruit a new executive to fill the job, plus a little extra. That's part of why the stock didn't drop, UHC will probably get a big insurance payday on this guy's death, and be able to recruit someone for his job with a generous signing bonus. But of course they won't use ALL of the insurance money for the signing bonus, lol no, why would they do that?
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Dude, of course they had key man insurance (someone linked the definition just a page or two ago). But 1) that policy could be $100M or $1B (it's not) and still would be a drop in the bucket, literal rounding error, and 2) there are 50 (probably 500) people already in the organization ready, willing, and able to take that job. Only a couple will be considered, but the decision is already made.

At least as an interim. If they decide that optically "we're making changes" and go outside (it has happened before...even at that very company), they could bring in someone. But short/mid-term it will not be that. And tbqh, they probably have 50,000 passably qualified people who have been flooding every contact they have with outreach today "just maybe."

Tl; dr: they don't need any shekels for "recruiting."
 
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John Ligma said:
Pidgin is a real, internationally recognized language used by niggers in Africa who are too low IQ to learn English proper
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Oh god no, they made a seperate language for the niggers??

Instead of the US licking the niggers boots, why isn't it the opposite?? If you are gonna live in a country illegally/on welfare, atleast learn the fucking language
 
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neger psykolog said:
So they got hacked/ransomwared (means their database was encrypted) in February and didn't even directly inform customers until late July. So if you had cancer or a loved one had cancer or whatever other serious illness, your claims would've been fucked around with for months on end. Multiple people probably died as a result of this.

That goes beyond incompetence and into fraud territory. Of course it is the actual ransomware gangs that did this attack in the first place and according to the article they scammed UHG and formed a new group and ransomed them again. Russia supposedly lets most of these groups operate with relative impunity (although that has been changing recently)
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So a company that has like $300 billion in yearly revenue didn't even have multifactor/2FA set up for their portal which is how they got hacked in the first place.

When the impact of this is people's lives on the line and the reason is CEOs don't want to spend money on better security, then the CEOs should be going to prison. Instead the guy who was shot was able to do insider trading and sell $12 million worth of stock.

Unbelievable. And keep in mind not only is this some giant corporation, but cyberattacks and ransomware attacks have been happening at scale for years now - there is no way whatsoever they weren't warned about shit like this and its basically criminal levels of incompetence.

We still don't know the killers actual motives, but it is possible this is partly or fully the result of the ransomware attack. Which means some hackers who extorted this company caused a bunch of deaths while their systems were fucked up, caused a whole bunch of personal information to be leaked and also inadvertently got the companies CEO killed.
 
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Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
His wife and children loved him, and he loved them.

If his decisions harmed someone in particular, I respect their and their loved ones' anger and ill wishes. Everyone else is just hyperventilating into their headgear.


Grow up.

Who do you think is going to vote him out? Shareholders, whose stock has increased on a hockey-stick trajectory for 20 years running? Lol, sure.

"Litigate him out" for doing his job (which was increasing profitability and thereby shareholder equity at the parent company)?

Yes, pressuring legislators for additional/ refined regulation on healthcare insurers would be a civilized thing to do. Though good luck.

Assassination is third-world bullshit, best reserved for coup-eyed rivals and despots, and anyone celebrating open murder on the streets of America is a vile piece of shit.
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Grow up.

You yourself don't believe there are any legal avenues to improve the situation. We've had issues with greedy individuals and organisations at least as long as we've had writing, there are established processes for resolving said issues. They're proven to be effective and they're easy to implement. It's not on the common man that he's being forced to remember them.
 
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