UnitedHealth CEO shot

[NewOrleansFan]

How many people this guy indirectly killed? Tens, hundreds, thousands?
Bye..Felicia.

 

[Eeyore]

All that I see is pavement

 

[Sun Wukong]

You’re all going to look pretty silly when it turns out he was murdered not because of healthcare but because he was having an affair with another rich guy’s wife or involved in very shady business deals.

Rich people don't get murdered for those things.

But also, like I said earlier in the thread, his wife confirmed he had been specifically threatened multiple times and that her understanding of it was that it was something to do with denial of coverage.

There's no real mystery here aside from who the guy is.

 

[J-Donk]

Rich people don't get murdered for those things.

But also, like I said earlier in the thread, his wife confirmed he had been specifically threatened multiple times and that her understanding of it was that it was something to do with denial of coverage.

There's no real mystery here aside from who the guy is.

I don't understand the peril clutching in this thread.

This was psychopath on psychopath crime.

One kind, guns down a guy in the middle of a major American city. The other kills thousands to make a bigger bonus.

Who cares about any of these dudes.

 

[faceman]

Yeah, this guy was a piece of work

UnitedHealthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York

Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the US but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected.

apnews.com

Thompson also drew attention in 2021 when the insurer, like its competitors, was widely criticized for a plan to start denying payment for what it deemed non-critical visits to hospital emergency rooms.

“Patients are not medical experts and should not be expected to self-diagnose during what they believe is a medical emergency,” the chief executive of the American Hospital Association wrote in an open letter addressed to Thompson. “Threatening patients with a financial penalty for making the wrong decision could have a chilling effect on seeking emergency care.”

United Healthcare responded by delaying rollout of the change.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I have #humblebragged on here before about this, but recently had an experience here in Thailand last weekend that really drove home for me (again) how broken the American healthcare system is.. Last week i hurt my ribs when i took a bad fall while playing tennis with a young guy , yes it made me feel ancient .. after a few days of trying to tough it out, i had many people here, including a woman im seeing who is a registered nurse, cardiac & thoracic, telling me “you need go hospital”… the culture here is different; in the US, most people seem to put off going to the doctor as long as possible , whereas here people will go to the hospital for the seemingly most minor things.. so I went to one of the large hospitals here in Bangkok, the same one id gone to last year when i had what i thought was covid, just to rule out a fracture or something internal.. upon entering the ER, with no wait on a Sunday around lunchtime, i had a nurse taking my vitals and asking me questions in almost perfect English.. in another 5 minutes, i was meeting with a doctor, an Internist i believe but im not sure, it all happened so fast lol.. he sent me for X-rays and- good news- it was nothing serious, no fracture just a contusion (bruise).. he prescribed a painkiller and a muscle relaxer, and then i went to check out.. at the moment i have no employer health insurance policy, so i am self-insuring.. i wondered if the X-rays would push the cost of the visit up to something more expensive and familiar to me like what id experienced in hospitals back home in America.. i pulled out my credit card, and the cashier told me that my grand total for the ER visit, the consultation with the physician, the X-rays and the meds- came to 3600 baht.. or about $105 US dollars.. i gladly paid it, and it reminded me of one of the major reasons i decided to relocate out here .

All of this in a place that more resembled a Four Seasons than a medical facility


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[saintmdterps]

I apologize for the tone of my earlier posts. Gunning these people down in the streets isn't likely to bring about the change needed to fix this broken system. However, I don't believe the will exists in the population of the US to bring about real, sustainable change in the good old boy network currently in power. We can't agree on anything, let alone that our legislators and their corporate handlers are robbing us blind. It may come to pass one day that we do agree and takes steps necessary to scrap this piece of junk, but more likely is a slow (or rapid) dissolution into autocracy and full-blown oligarchy. It is right out of the dystopian novels I read in college.

 

[saintmdterps]

I have #humblebragged on here before about this, but recently had an experience here in Thailand last weekend that really drove home for me (again) how broken the American healthcare system is.. Last week i hurt my ribs when i took a bad fall while playing tennis with a young guy , yes it made me feel ancient .. after a few days of trying to tough it out, i had many people here, including a woman im seeing who is a registered nurse, cardiac & thoracic, telling me “you need go hospital”… the culture here is different; in the US, most people seem to put off going to the doctor as long as possible , whereas here people will go to the hospital for the seemingly most minor things.. so I went to one of the large hospitals here in Bangkok, the same one id gone to last year when i had what i thought was covid, just to rule out a fracture or something internal.. upon entering the ER, with no wait on a Sunday around lunchtime, i had a nurse taking my vitals and asking me questions in almost perfect English.. in another 5 minutes, i was meeting with a doctor, an Internist i believe but im not sure, it all happened so fast lol.. he sent me for X-rays and- good news- it was nothing serious, no fracture just a contusion (bruise).. he prescribed a painkiller and a muscle relaxer, and then i went to check out.. at the moment i have no employer health insurance policy, so i am self-insuring.. i wondered if the X-rays would push the cost of the visit up to something more expensive and familiar to me like what id experienced in hospitals back home in America.. i pulled out my credit card, and the cashier told me that my grand total for the ER visit, the consultation with the physician, the X-rays and the meds- came to 3600 baht.. or about $105 US dollars.. i gladly paid it, and remembered one of the major reasons i decided to relocate out here .

All of this in a place that more resembled a Four Seasons than a medical facility


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I'll be right there!

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

An interesting (at least to me) side note- i recently started here in Asia a “side hustle” as the kids call it, where i am selling…….. wait for it…… health insurance to expats making the same type of move here as i did a few months back… also some other products like investments, life insurance, et al.. i call it a side hustle b/c while it isn’t my main source of income at the moment , im taking it seriously, learning a ton and hope to make it my main vocation in 2025.. ive been in Healthcare (mostly in the Dental space) for almost 20 yrs, but never on the Insurance side.. so i cant vilify insurance folks as much as i used to lol, though i will still be able to argue (rightfully i think) that there is a difference between mere brokers like myself and insurance company executives with multi-million dollar salary packages and golden parachutes…

The thing im finding about selling these international /Asian health insurance packages is that every single policy we sell (and there are dozens) explicitly states that they cover people for every country in the world where they might get sick or injured EXCEPT for the United States.. the cost of healthcare back home is so out of whack that none of the international insurers will even think about assuming that risk .

 

[Bill]

I'd bet the house United Healthcare denied covering services for the shooter or someone the shooter cares about.

They are pretty much the worst health insurance company in the universe based on my personal experience. My fights with them over my preemie son changed my politics.

Is this a confession?

I have #humblebragged on here before about this, but recently had an experience here in Thailand last weekend that really drove home for me (again) how broken the American healthcare system is.. Last week i hurt my ribs when i took a bad fall while playing tennis with a young guy , yes it made me feel ancient .. after a few days of trying to tough it out, i had many people here, including a woman im seeing who is a registered nurse, cardiac & thoracic, telling me “you need go hospital”… the culture here is different; in the US, most people seem to put off going to the doctor as long as possible , whereas here people will go to the hospital for the seemingly most minor things.. so I went to one of the large hospitals here in Bangkok, the same one id gone to last year when i had what i thought was covid, just to rule out a fracture or something internal.. upon entering the ER, with no wait on a Sunday around lunchtime, i had a nurse taking my vitals and asking me questions in almost perfect English.. in another 5 minutes, i was meeting with a doctor, an Internist i believe but im not sure, it all happened so fast lol.. he sent me for X-rays and- good news- it was nothing serious, no fracture just a contusion (bruise).. he prescribed a painkiller and a muscle relaxer, and then i went to check out.. at the moment i have no employer health insurance policy, so i am self-insuring.. i wondered if the X-rays would push the cost of the visit up to something more expensive and familiar to me like what id experienced in hospitals back home in America.. i pulled out my credit card, and the cashier told me that my grand total for the ER visit, the consultation with the physician, the X-rays and the meds- came to 3600 baht.. or about $105 US dollars.. i gladly paid it, and remembered one of the major reasons i decided to relocate out here .

All of this in a place that more resembled a Four Seasons than a medical facility


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So I think what you're saying is that a plane ticket to Thailand is a lot cheaper than the astronomical premiums I'm paying in the US for health insurance that I simply can't use because the deductible is far too high for me to afford. Is that about right?

Let's face it, until these executives and politicians start loving people more than money, it's only going to get worse. And everybody knows it. The system is criminal.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Is this a confession?

So I think what you're saying is that a plane ticket to Thailand is a lot cheaper than the astronomical premiums I'm paying in the US for health insurance that I simply can't to use because the deductible is far too high for me to afford. Is that about right?

Of course.. i mean , there is a reason that medical tourism is a huge thing here, and not just for elective cosmetic procedures .

Let's face it, until these executives and politicians start loving people more than money, it's only going to get worse. And everybody knows it. The system is criminal.

I love you and ur non-movie going arse- but come on dude, you are gonna be waiting a long long time for anything like that to occur .

 

[Optimus Prime]

The gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a horror early morning shooting left behind a cryptic message at the scene, it has been revealed.

According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings found outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, where Thompson, 50, was gunned down Wednesday morning.

Police sources confirmed the chilling message to ABC News and theNew York Post, adding that three live nine-millimeter rounds and three discharged nine-millimeter shell casings were recovered from the scene.


Several of the bullets were each inscribed with one of the three words, they added.

It is not clear what message the killer may have been trying to leave through the inscriptions, with the motive and the identity of the suspect still a mystery.

As of Thursday morning, no arrests have been made with the NYPD offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the suspect.

Investigators are now honing in on the killer’s use of an e-bike to flee the scene, as well as a water bottle and cellphone he appears to have dropped as he fled.………

Three words carved into bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

‘Deny,’ ‘depose,’ and ‘delay’ were allegedly inscribed on the bullet casings at the scene

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bill]

I love you and ur non-movie going arse- but come on dude, you are gonna be waiting a long long time for anything like that to occur.

Thanks man!

Well, hopefully it won't take too much longer for something good to happen.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Social Media Has Little Sympathy for Murdered Health Insurance Exec

Americans on social media showed virtually no sympathy for the apparently targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO by mystery gunman in New York.

www.rollingstone.com