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

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

If it was the best in the world there would be no reason for people to be cheering on this man's death.

There is no reason to cheer for his death, it's online brainrot.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

Besides multiple companies removing "leadership" pages from their websites, another health industry company

This weeds out a lot of crackpots but rather useless against the determined ones like the shooter.

All companies are beholden to the SEC and must file reports, their entire corporate structure is publicly available through EDGAR so you can pull names but not photos. That doesn’t even include archives. From there you can look up public reports like property records, voter registration on that individual. It’s tedious and time consuming, but it could still be done.
Its near impossible for Executives to not have a public footprint, especially today with LinkedIn, and general networking.

Remember, CEOs and their security have to get lucky every time. A shooter just needs to get lucky once.

 

[Dawdler]

they absolutely do. undesirables in the US use the Emergency Room as their only source of medical care. in the US ERs are (supposed to be) unable to refuse anyone for treatment, so you have people who will never be able to pay anything taking up resources and driving up prices for everyone else

I really doubt they do. ER's are filled with interns and other low ranking medical staff that just treat worst cases enough for them to walk out of the door.

your focus is on manufacturing existing medicine instead of the most important part of medicine, being able to research and design solutions that solve existing problems better and having the resources to create new solutions for new problems. anyone can copy someone else's work, which is what Europe excels in, but being able to have new and better technologies will continue to keep America at an advantage

A lot of medicine is just copying the OG manufacturer, God / Nature, depends what your religion is.

insulin is a perfect example. you can buy basic human insulin at Walmart for $25. it's a perfectly good medication that's cheap and widely available and is the result of medical research by many different places coming together to solve a problem that hurts a lot of people. you can live perfectly fine on human insulin

No you cant. Insulin bio-compatibility is different between people and what works for some has 0 effect on another person.

you want analog insulin? the good stuff where a private company took a good general idea and improved it so much that retarded redditors don't even recognize the old, trusted solution as an option so they can rage against the (medical) machine? you're gonna pay for it. and you're only going to be able to get it from a small number of sources until the new, new insulin will eventually come around and then that will be the cutting edge medicine that costs money to make up how much R&D went into developing it

First insulin was basically troonshine of medical world, even worse actually. Second insulin by E.Coli was better, but still utter shit and on the same level of effectiveness as first one, just a lot cleaner. Until people started dying by cross-contamination with beeniscillin yeasts that are basically mexicans of bio pharma world and it resulted in regulation that medical facilities cannot produce both at same site.
Only the third version, made by yeasts is useful, because they are actually advanced enough to properly process insulin protein into a functional shape.
There was also an intermediary 2.5 version where the analogues made by ecocacola bacteria were processed by yeast into semi-functional group.
Version 3.5 is optimized process by yeast as it is primary made to fit it's own purpose and it sucks at making perfect human insulin. You have various analogues made by different companies.
Version 4.0 is to make own human body cells produce the insulin, either by restoration or substitution - with various side effects, including cancer
anyhow
Everything costs money, that's just a fact of life. The actual cost of R&D in a marketable drug is sub 10% at manufacturers doors. By the time it reaches shelves its sub 1% and you are really just full of bull, trying to lick the pharma boot.

sounds like a perfect use for tariffs to keep cheap junk from 3rd world countries like Germany out of the US and only having locally manufactured goods available

Our goods rank higher in quality than your own domestic product and are preferred even by users. Some of it is because Eu has stricter control than USSA, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that our products aren't made by spics and negros.

 

[neger psykolog]

This weeds out a lot of crackpots but rather useless against the determined ones like the shooter.

All companies are beholden to the SEC and must file reports, their entire corporate structure is publicly available through EDGAR so you can pull names but not photos. That doesn’t even include archives. From there you can look up public reports like property records, voter registration on that individual. It’s tedious and time consuming, but it could still be done.
Its near impossible for Executives to not have a public footprint, especially today with LinkedIn, and general networking.

Remember, CEOs and their security have to get lucky every time. A shooter just needs to get lucky once.

And keep in mind that this particular CEO kept a very low profile to begin with. I didn't really do a super extensive search but all I really found was his LinkedIn which he last posted on more than a year ago.
No one has really found video interviews with him - he didn't post anything personal on LinkedIn, literally just posted PR-speak bullshit about his company.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

It's still insane to me that these giant fucking companies that are cutthroat and hugely profitable still need handouts from the government to "survive". How does that even begin to make sense?

It's a dance: "Hai. We want in this market in some way and if you clear us to do that we'll do this other thing you need but we'll need guarantees and govt subsidies to make that worth our while ...pay no attention to how this advances our plan for market domination overall...oh and by the way we want to buy these longterm care facilities and be the sole PBM for everyone in those facilities or on the govt plans, and also limit those people to our in-network providers whom we've squashed down bc if we don't include them in network their income decreases significantly."

It's a bad industry, and UNH is better at it than anyone. And tbc, that is not an endorsement.

Am I the only one that finds it odd that the NYPD is releasing so much info. Usually the NYPD shares as little as possible (because most of it shows how incompetent they always are) but for this case they seem to be sharing every little bit of info they get as quick as possible. Before they even clear it as relevant or irrelevant to the case.

I've been surprised there isn't more, tbh. If he was actually from out of town and had been there 10* days, as has been suggested, surprising to me there are only 8 "possible" released images/recordings (2 at hostel, coming up subway stairs, Starbucks, on the street/phone, on a bike on 103rd St., and murder time) that have been made public.

NYPD is claiming it has "200 images" of the suspect:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-manhunt-surveillance-expert/

edit:
nigga shot a CEO in broad daylight in the middle of NYC and apparently then took a taxi to the bus station and left NYC via bus lol

https://abcnews.go.com/US/hearts-broken-unitedhealth-group-speaks-after-ceo-brian/story?id=116515711

Ok, that's more like what I'd expect.

medicine is expensive in the US because we research and develop the majority of medications

Medicine is expensive bc companies look to profit after either being investor-funded for years or being a cost center in a larger company for years before approval. Then patents and economic analysis of cost-to-market and profit targets. Govt/ insurers/ / producers negotiate what they will cover, when, and how much, line by line.

*

• The shooter arrived in NYC 2 days before the date of the investor conference was announced
• Police believe he may have left NYC via bus but they can't figure out what bus he took
• “We have video of him entering the Port Authority Bus Terminal. We don’t have any video of him exiting so we believe he may have gotten on a bus,”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/06/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-police-believe-person-of-interest-left-new-york-report.html

If he was there 2 days before the conference was even announced then that raises a lot more interesting questions

Earlier they had said 10, which seemed excessive. This time frame makes more sense, though he got familiar & comfortable with the city fast.

who was going to be at the conference?

Analysts and institutional investors.

 

[Dawdler]

We may as well be 300 years ahead of Europeans with how fast our invented system of government moves, which predictably changes because the US is an invented concept, can evolve. We’re dealing with issues you’ll see in 2400, we’ll have long found solutions but your arrogance will prevent you from adopting them.

We had a solution for everyone's problems, but you didn't like it.

 

[Bindo]

I haven't seen anyone mention this, if someone beat me to it, I apologize. When I was stepping the video forward and backwards I noticed that the first shot was very gassy at the ejection port.

The bottle of water that the cops are pinning their hopes on for DNA? I think that it's possible that it never touched the lips of The Deposer.

Let me introduce you to the concept of running a suppressed weapon "wet." Watch the ejection port.

 

[Mushroom King]

Uhhh, captive bolt bros..? I'm hoping it's something interesting like this instead of a 3D printed plastic zip gun.

 

[Adolf Kotler]

I'm sorry, I don't speak poor

SMH we need to make it clear europe's the US's bitch. Maybe dissolve NATO, have fun in your decadence

Hilarious coming from a mutt who lives in a country which is not only Israel's bitch, but also the global epicentre of international jewry.

 

[Captain Manning]

This weeds out a lot of crackpots but rather useless against the determined ones like the shooter.

It doesn't even weed out the crackpots, since crazy doesn't necessarily mean stupid. Plus I think you have to have some determination to kill another man anyways. You can get who is in the C-Suite from things like investor reports, and other means.

It's actually kinda silly they're doing this. It's being interpreted as fear, and it may very well be. It's counterproductive if they wanna try and send a message this assassination will accomplish nothing.

At most, it weeds out the super lazy or ignorant.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Except I think most people generally agree DB Cooper didn't survive the jump. Part of the money was recovered near the jump site, and the portion that didn't has never re-entered curculation (they have the serial #s for all of it).

This guy will hopefully fare better.

No, he didn’t, but we still don’t know who the fuck he was to this day.

If Triple D pulls this off he outdoes the DB Cooper legend by miles. DB existed in a world you could buy a plane ticket with cash and no ID ten minutes before boarding. DDD killed a CEO in midtown Manhattan lousy with surveillance, computers, people, cameras and touch DNA capabilities.

 

[Oxyjen]

I’m not sure if anyone else has remarked on this, but that Adolph chap does seem to have a bit of a bee in his bonnet about the Jewish people.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I haven't seen anyone mention this, if someone beat me to it, I apologize. When I was stepping the video forward and backwards I noticed that the first shot was very gassy at the ejection port.

The bottle of water that the cops are pinning their hopes on for DNA? I think that it's possible that it never touched the lips of The Deposer.

Let me introduce you to the concept of running a suppressed weapon "wet." Watch the ejection port.

Huh, I had no idea. I guess if you are using a homemade suppressor that is only really meant to be used once for a dozen rounds it would be quite useful to stack your chances. I guess wetting it would make a lot of sense.

 

[JoeBidenSniffMe]

I hope that guy what left those evidence on purpose, like picking up some random empty plastic water bottle from a trash with some random person DNA on it. Then start planting false evidence all over New York to fuck with the investigation and waste a lot of time.

 

[JaneThough]

The American system is literally the best in the world. Unlike in the UK we don't have to wait months to see so scummy government doctor.

Obviously we don’t handle our retards well. Case in point, this guys posts.

 

[Meat Target]

Large majority of munchies in that thread are American and already get free healthcare anyway.

I'm saying that's why so many Americans are complacent about our broken healthcare system, and the vast majority aren't clamoring for more reform in spite of being annoyed by it.

True, corporate lobbying and propaganda are the biggest part of manufacturing consent. But it doesn't help that voters will look at freeloading munchies and think, "fuck that, I don't want my tax dollars paying for that piece of shit."

 

[Oxyjen]

No, he didn’t, but we still don’t know who the fuck he was to this day.

Supposedly it was Richard McCoy after all. The parachute used was quite recently found at McCoy’s mother’s property.

The FBI are exhuming him to confirm via DNA.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

It doesn't even weed out the crackpots, since crazy doesn't necessarily mean stupid. Plus I think you have to have some determination to kill another man anyways. You can get who is in the C-Suite from things like investor reports, and other means.

It's actually kinda silly they're doing this. It's being interpreted as fear, and it may very well be. It's counterproductive if they wanna try and send a message this assassination will accomplish nothing.

At most, it weeds out the super lazy or ignorant.

It also doesn't stop people from doing smaller things, like firebombing insurance offices in the night or throwing bottles of piss on corporate lawns.

 

[gachadegenerate451]

Hey hey people. We've got ourselves some news from the c suite.

https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1865157320675590394

This 'fireside chat' between UHC executives was leaked recently regarding the assassination of their CEO and they're talking about some interesting things:
Beginning to 2 minute mark is them offering therapy sessions for them to calm down and sucking the dead man's dick.
Around 4 minutes the talk goes into their policy for the future. The speaker says and I quote "tune out that critical noise" as he talks about them being the stewards of effective health policy.
They're doubling down
6:30: "this company needs people like Brian in it and we are fortunate that we have so many people like Brian in our company
9-11 minute mark is him talking about executives and police talking to him. It inflates his ego
11:45-13:30 is him talking to an employee about how they're going to stay safe. He basically says call the corporate safety number so no real plans there
14-16 minutes is mainly him sucking Brian's dick some more and talking about turning corporate HQ into a fortress. Because that's where Brian got shot right?
17-19 minutes is him talking about placating shareholders; reiterates that he's doubling down
20-24 minutes is closing remarks to the staff; lots of thank yous to the bug people. Lionizes Brian and basically says they're going to try their best to keep doing what they do with 90% AI fail rates.
TL;DR Brian was great let's keep doing this bullshit. If you have UC then you should jump ship.

 

[just Reading a post]

They're doubling down

That is cope talk. Public sentiment is against them. They will have to water down the evil shit to gain public support back as they have more eyes on the book the bullets were referencing.
Long term yes they will go back to doing the evil shit. But at least for a year, they will not deny as many claims till the heat dies down.