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

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>the American dream is to force millions of your fellow countrymen to die in agony so you can line your own pockets
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JoeBidenSniffMe said:
He maybe a upper middle class, so I think he still need someone to set up a gofundme and bail this guy out.
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They'll shut it down in like 30 seconds.

Plus, this is probably gonna be charged as first degree murder, so I dunno if he'd even get bail. Sadly.
 
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neger psykolog said:
Is it possible that UHG cheaped out and gave him some shitty tier back surgery or some shit? I've read some anecdotes that people that have back/spine surgery can go a bit nuts.
But still to me it feels like he was angry/sad about society as a whole rather than having a gripe with medical insurance providers in specific - he just chose to act out against arguably the most responsible person at the worst health insurance company to ever exist.
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Nah, the lumbrosacral fusion in that pic is the standard treatment. Given it's a blurry, low res screenshot of an image, it looks well done. Nothing gross jumps out at me as being weird, unusual, out of place. I'm betting that they are guilty of denying him any further symptom mitigation involving pain and function, which is not uncommon among healthcare insurers after spinal surgery, they say "Well, you had the treatment, and it is considered curative", and it is curative, for 50% of people, the rest continue to have major issues, which the insurers ignore.
 
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neger psykolog said:
I'm willing to bet that he will plead guilty.
And his lawyer will argue for a shorter sentence based on psychedelic drug use + bad back surgery and also mental health issues.
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That would be the smart move. DA will probably agree to a pretty sweet plea deal too instead of gambling on a jury, hopefully he gets like 4 years or less.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Right-wing sentiment over the matter seems somewhat divided, the more "mainstream" crowd is more outraged while the populist camp is indifferent or defend the gunman.
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the populist camp of the right wing needs to start shoving the "mainstream" right wingers into lockers and give them swirlies in minecraft
 
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Sneed Lurker said:
>the American dream is to force millions of your fellow countrymen to die in agony so you can line your own pockets
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btw this tweet is true about him having a plan for "value-based care". I have seen anecdotes online that stated that he did have plans he was working on to improve health care and that it wasn't all dollars and percentage signs.

I guess the closest possible comparison I could make that is maybe more relatable is that he was trying to turn a normal company from being shit into something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation (that doesn't mean he was literally trying to turn it into a teal organization but he was trying to change it for the better - and doing that is not easy and takes a lot of time)

Teal organizations are considered to be very high-level and interesting concepts and Valve Software is close to being one - they are very difficult to create and achieve but can have outstanding results.

You can read more about Value-based health care here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-based_health_care - it is unclear if anyone has ever actually achieved this at scale, but UHG was large enough that if Brian Thompson was successful with it, it may have massively improved US healthcare.

(I don't know enough about healthcare / insurance to know if "Value-based healthcare" is just some sort of meme, but it does seem like it is a concept that has merit and is desirable)

TLDR: Brian Thompson may not have been the most heartless, soulless person that people think he is - and outside of working within a company that was evil and doing stuff like insider trading it is very possible that his ambitions were to actually make huge, substantial and deep systematic changes within UHG that would have improved the standard of things greatly and improve people's lives outside of them just being "paying customers"

Do also remember: as evil as Brian Thompson may have been - he wasn't making billions of dollars. Yes, he was making 10 million a year but that isn't that much given the company was making almost half a trillion dollars of revenue per year.
 
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neger psykolog said:
Is it possible that UHG cheaped out and gave him some shitty tier back surgery or some shit? I've read some anecdotes that people that have back/spine surgery can go a bit nuts.
But still to me it feels like he was angry/sad about society as a whole rather than having a gripe with medical insurance providers in specific - he just chose to act out against arguably the most responsible person at the worst health insurance company to ever exist.
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It is messing about near your spinal cord, the central hub for your nerves. You can have many numbers of bad shit happen if you got sub standard(in his opinion obviously) care. Ghost pain is a common one i hear about.
It could also be he got stuck with the payments and it ruined something, he wanted. Enough to kill over.
 
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I am so stupidly sad and disappointed. :( But especially I’m frustrated. So many unresolved crimes, so many normal, completely innocent people killed whose families never get closure, and yet when a rich psychopath gets murdered it’s a matter of days to find a man among millions. Fuck fuck fuck the police and this gay life.
 
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SBG said:
Been deranged watching some right wingers on twitter carry on about how glorious and important our insurance companies are and that it truly is great for them to deny claims.

They were pushing the theory that it was typical leftist murderous rage, now have to pivot to the smart, successful, and handsome chad must have been some sort of trust fund failson. It's like they're in heavy denial that an insurance exec could be viewed by healthy normal people as an evil piece of shit.

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Globohomo CEOs denying claims is Nietzschean will to power.
 
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The absolute attosecond a trial date is announced, I need insane amounts of capital to make sure every potential juror in New York State knows the words "jury nullification".

It needs to be on every screen in Times Square, it needs to be blasted out of every basketball American's riced out Nissan Altima with Kicker subwoofers. Radio airtime, ad space on cable TV. Targeted ads online. This nigga needs to be freed, assuming they don't make an example of him first.
 
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