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

[Dyn]

Lol fuck off. How many fellow Swedish people do you know who are in serious medical debt? Or are you retards paying $200 for dental work and then complaining that you have it worse than Americans?

A cursory google search indicates you can expect to pay around $90USD for a dental checkup in Sweden. Truly a socialist hellscape.

 

[Thomas Matthew Crooks]

Dangerously Based.
Old and specially shitty and "too big to fail" company CEO's deserve to get fucked.
I hope this would happen to Videogame executives too but the only people that I know that plays anything past 2010 is a literal teenagers.

• Social Media Influencers, brand deals and all of that shit - they have totally and utterly destroyed the internet
• Tech companies (Facebook in particular) have markedly harmed society
• Advertising companies

Those 3 are basically all the same thing though.

and perhaps the porn industry - but the porn industry isn't as centralized as social media influencers

How terminally online and detached from reality do you have to be to genuinely believe the goyslop factories are even close to competing for the title of greatest evil or anything beyond a symptom of the larger deteriorating system. Especially amidst a thread full of personal accounts of loved ones dying at the hands of the insurance industry's insatiable greed. Everything you listed is a purposeful distraction trying to make as much noise and take as much attention away from people like Brian Thompson who don't want you to know their name.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Why do people think this was a professional anyway? It was obviously pretty meticulous but I don't think hitmen even allow the possibility of their guns jamming twice during the hit. He got the job done, sure, but if he was a 'professional professional' wouldn't he have had some kind of super badass custom worked piece done for him that was reliable but still easy to throw away? It's plausible he got scammed or something in that scenario, but I dunno, he really looks like a lucky goober to me in the video.

In any case, God Bless America and this goober.

You watch too many movies if you think hitman must mean you're Leon or something. It could easily be a hit regardless of how seemingly competent or incompetent he is. Paying a crackhead to kill someone is still a hit.

I know that whatever gun it was the guy died like a bitch. If it was a 9mm he's a bitch, if it was a 22 he's a mega bitch super pussy deluxe.

It doesn't matter if you're anthony fontano or larry wheels, a .22 through your aorta is killing you.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Personally, I don't think that someone from 4 m would miss a headshot. But I can be wrong

The murderer didn't appear to be aiming for the head, though I'll defer to the shooting aficionados on that.

But what does that have to do with the fact that he couldn't have been tracking him for weeks in NYC bc Brian Thompson was not in NYC for weeks?

 

[Otterly]

Britbong Kiwis, this is what your taxes and TV loicense fees pay for.

It’s nowhere near the worst thing my tax pound pays for. At least it’s funny. Unlike the billions spent on importing fighting age men from the third world and putting them up in hotels at our expense, or money to prop up various regimes and keep wars going.

Like that famous video of the father who shot the pedo who raped his child. That man does not regret it and he feels no shame - he just knows that he sleeps better now that the source of his pain is dead.

He should feel proud. If society had the guts to simply execute pedophiles the world would be a better place. When society won’t and colludes with then, the man who does take the trash out is acting morally.
I hope he isn’t a pro. I hope he’s a regular man, and I hope he doesn’t get caught. But if he does get caught, I bet you they will kill him rather than let him have his day in court to explain exactly why he killed him. That kind of testimony might encourage the plebs

 

[FieldPiece]

It doesn't matter if you're anthony fontano or larry wheels, a .22 through your aorta is killing you.

Not if you're smart and shoot yourself with smaller bullets to build up immunity.

 

[clipartfan92]

UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
Axios (archive.ph)
By Maya Goldman
2024-12-05 10:00:07GMT

Spoiler

Wednesday's shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson unleashed a wave of social media-fueled rage against health insurers, with posters lashing out over coverage denials and other business practices.
Why it matters: Experts say the lack of sympathy may reflect an inherent truth about Americans and their health plans: People tend to like their own insurer but distrust the industry — and indeed, the health system at large.

• UnitedHealthcare is the country's largest private health insurer by market share and, like other big carriers, has been targeted with lawsuits and criticism from regulators and lawmakers over allegedly denying claims to maximize profits.
• Thompson's wife told NBC News he had been receiving threats, possibly related to health care coverage, but investigators haven't identified a motive for the murder.

Context: Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two based in Minnesota, was shot and killed in what police say was a targeted attack early Wednesday morning in Manhattan while walking to an investor conference.

• He joined the parent UnitedHealth Group in 2004 and climbed the ranks, becoming CEO of UnitedHealthcare in April 2021, according to his LinkedIn account.

Driving the news: As the news broke Wednesday morning, a vocal subset of social media users unleashed raw emotions about the industry.

• "When you shoot one man in the street it's murder. When you kill thousands of people in hospitals by taking away their ability to get treatment you're an entrepreneur," an X user wrote.
• "Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them," activist Tobita Chow wrote on X.

Where it stands: Americans tend to give their health insurance positive reviews — unless they're sick and actually need to use it, according to a KFF survey of more than 3,600 insured adults conducted last year.

• 81% of insured U.S. adults in the survey gave their health insurance a rating of good or excellent. But that figure dropped to 68% for people with fair or poor health.

Zoom in: Even though Americans largely rate their own health insurance positively, public opinion polls show people dislike the insurance industry overall, said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at KFF.

• In a 2018 survey from KFF, 90% of adults with employer-sponsored coverage who thought health spending was too high said health insurance companies bear at least a fair amount of blame for the problem.
• Data collected by Gallup last year found that 36% of Americans rated the services health insurance companies provide as only fair, and another 32% rated them as poor.
• "People who are healthy and don't have to use their coverage a lot, they see how much it can cost if you don't have insurance," Hamel said. "There's a phenomenon of people feeling grateful that they have coverage" at all.

The other side: Insurance leaders cautioned against drawing broad conclusions from some inflammatory posts.

• "People choosing to say and do deeply unkind things on the internet is unfortunately nothing new and is not unique to today's tragic events," said one industry official, speaking on the condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
• UnitedHealth did not respond to a request for comment.

Still, Americans' frustration with health insurance companies is based on real events that can have serious medical and financial consequences.

• Nearly 60% of those surveyed by KFF last year said they'd experienced problems with their health insurance, such as denied claims or difficulties with provider networks.
• Among insured adults who saw a doctor more than 10 times in the previous year, nearly one-third experienced problems with requirements that the health insurer sign off on an item or service before it's covered, the KFF survey found.

Health insurers maintain that these policies prevent fraud and stop unneeded or inappropriate medical care. But other data shows the requirements can lead to patients abandoning or delaying care.

• Policymakers have sought to crack down on prior authorization overuse in recent years.

Case in point: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Connecticut, New York and Missouri decided last month to only cover anesthesia services for a certain number of minutes per procedure starting next year.

• "This is just the latest in a long line of appalling behavior by commercial health insurers looking to drive their profits up at the expense of patients and physicians providing essential care," Donald Arnold, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said in a news release.

Axios' Nathan Bomey contributed.

 

[Dyn]

You watch too many movies if you think hitman must mean you're Leon or something. It could easily be a hit regardless of how seemingly competent or incompetent he is. Paying a crackhead to kill someone is still a hit.

One of the most notorious hitmen in Australia killed a government witness by drowning her in a plastic bucket full of water in his backyard, and yet people ITT are really still expecting barcode tattoos on the back of their shaved heads.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

One of the most notorious hitmen in Australia killed a government witness by drowning her in a plastic bucket full of water in his backyard, and yet people ITT are really still expecting barcode tattoos on the back of their shaved heads.

That sounds pretty John Wick smooth for Australia, to be honest.

 

[Mourning_Cloak]

As someone who works in healthcare I was shocked that UHC somehow has a higher coverage denial rate than fucking Ambetter.

 

[Shittus Maximus II]

I had United Heathcare.
Rest in Piss. You'll not be missed.
The shooter will never want for ramen and cigarettes again.

 

[Spunt]

New York cops have said that the assassin may have had a grudge against the victim. This has helped them narrow the list of suspects to 350,000,000 people.

 

[Samhain]

The murderer didn't appear to be aiming for the head, though I'll defer to the shooting aficionados on that.

Looked to me like he intentionally shot him in the back with the first shot. Even at relatively close range, shooting a moving man's head with a pistol isn't easy for the average shooter. Would be easier with a red dot versus iron sights, but the shooter didn't seem to have a red dot on his pistol. Center mass shots are much easier with a pistol, especially on a moving target.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Hi, Taylor. So you also want these executives dead.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zrdYr

 

[behindyourightnow]

A cursory google search indicates you can expect to pay around $90USD for a dental checkup in Sweden. Truly a socialist hellscape.

Swedes are here paying $100 for the eye exam they need every 2 years and declaring "Öh deår, we äre just like the United Ståtes, but wörse!!" while meanwhile some poor fuck in middle America just opened a $25,000 bill for his wife's chemotherapy this month

 

[Max Free]

This would have never happened in front of a Trump Hotel.

I've always wondered why these retarded school shooters don't pick High Value Targets, like this. If you've already decided to end it all, why not make the world a better place by taking people like this with you, instead of going after helpless kids. Then I realize, that's what makes them retarded.

Because usually, these kind of "high value targets" have bodyguards and security around them.

 

[Spud]

One of the most notorious hitmen in Australia killed a government witness by drowning her in a plastic bucket full of water in his backyard, and yet people ITT are really still expecting barcode tattoos on the back of their shaved heads.

Everyone knows we peaked with Murder, Inc. Now those guys were hitmen, not some bald genetic petri dish ponce from a video game.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Looked to me like he intentionally shot him in the back with the first shot. Even at relatively close range, shooting a moving man's head with a pistol isn't easy for the average shooter. Would be easier with a red dot versus iron sights, but the shooter didn't seem to have a red dot on his pistol. Center mass shots are much easier with a pistol, especially on a moving target.

That's what I saw, too.

Brave guy, shooting an unarmed man in the back.

 

[Random Internet Person]

One of the most notorious hitmen in Australia killed a government witness by drowning her in a plastic bucket full of water in his backyard, and yet people ITT are really still expecting barcode tattoos on the back of their shaved heads.

I also remember the guy who killed Shinzo Abe had what was described as “something out of a Fallout game”.

A cursory google search indicates you can expect to pay around $90USD for a dental checkup in Sweden. Truly a socialist hellscape.

Swedes are here paying $100 for the eye exam they need every 2 years and declaring "Öh deår, we äre just like the United Ståtes, but wörse!!" while meanwhile some poor fuck in middle America just opened a $25,000 bill for his wife's chemotherapy this month

Isn’t the European model the dream of Bernie Sanders? Along with most Democrats?

 

[Captain Manning]

UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
Axios (archive.ph)
By Maya Goldman
2024-12-05 10:00:07GMT

Spoiler

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Let me spare you all having to read this tripe:

Blah blah blah... people are saying mean things on the Internet... Blah blah blah... Internet people are dumb and not reflective of reality... Blah blah blah... Most people actually love their insurance plans... Blah blah blah... HAIL HYDRA!

One of the most notorious hitmen in Australia killed a government witness by drowning her in a plastic bucket full of water in his backyard, and yet people ITT are really still expecting barcode tattoos on the back of their shaved heads.

I gotta be honest with you here. I'm kinda disappointed Australian assassination methods don't somehow involve funnel spiders, Tasmanian Devils, Dropbears, or Paul Hogan.