UnitedHealth CEO shot

[Sun Wukong]

To me, this is the issue that completely confuses me. The idea that this country has ever stood on moral footing and that we’ve ever ascended from chaos.

There are no moral governments.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

To me, this is the issue that completely confuses me. The idea that this country has ever stood on moral footing and that we’ve ever ascended from chaos.

Well when you fight nazis it’s easier to assume a moral position
When you do a bit of reading and find that nazi scientists learned a lot of their eugenics from your own ‘scientists’ it does take the shine off a bit

 

[saintmdterps]

This is the issue that completely confuses me. The idea that this country has ever stood on moral footing and that we’ve ever ascended from chaos.

worse chaos. before we descend into worse chaos.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

i bought one of those pack of stickers online for like hard hats and lunch/tool boxes and there was one in there that is truer today than ever .
it says " It gets worse before it gets worse"

 

[Eeyore]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article299308004.html

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The family of a Wisconsin man is suing after they say he died from an asthma attack when his medication price rose from $66 to $539.

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Schmidtknecht took daily doses of Advair Diskus to manage his asthma, the lawsuit said. His medication was covered by his employer-provided health insurance United Health-OptumRx Plan.

 

[faceman]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article299308004.html

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The family of a Wisconsin man is suing after they say he died from an asthma attack when his medication price rose from $66 to $539.

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Schmidtknecht took daily doses of Advair Diskus to manage his asthma, the lawsuit said. His medication was covered by his employer-provided health insurance United Health-OptumRx Plan.

yes, this gonna be screwed up regardless of the party in charge. My wife has Asthma. Insurance covered one and without warning dropped. so far it's covering the 2nd. our HC system needs an overhaul

 

[bigdaddysaints]

'Murica!

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company​

A doctor recently claimed on social media that UnitedHealth called her mid-surgery, denied her patient an overnight stay, and threatened legal action for her online posts about the incident after the company retained the defamation law firm Clare Locke.
On Jan. 7, a plastic surgeon named Elisabeth Potter posted a video of herself on Instagram claiming that UnitedHealthcare called her mid-surgery and asked her to justify an in-patient stay for a woman who has breast cancer and needed a surgical procedure to treat it. Potter then claimed that the insurer denied the patient an overnight stay and threatened her with legal action for her posts.

She included what appeared to be screen grabs of the letter from Clare Locke, dated Jan. 13. “We are writing to demand you correct your knowingly false, misleading, and defamatory posts regarding UnitedHealthcare,” it reads. The lawyers claim she made an error and that is why the insurer reached out, and that it would never have asked or expected her to step out mid-surgery. Clare Locke asked that she post a public apology and retract her accusations.

“I am a woman taking care of women affected by breast cancer,” Potter wrote on X. “I do this work with all of my heart, and I will continue to speak up for my patients—because they deserve better.

Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

The insurer and its law firm denies a doctor’s online claim that it refused to cover care for a cancer patient.

fortune.com

 

[Madmarsha]

There was a status hearing today. No cameras but two perp walks (one into the courtroom, one leaving the courtroom). It was short and dunno what was discussed but may have been remanded to New York state's jurisdiction out of Federal.

 

[Eeyore]

Woman accused of using infamous phrase, threatening health insurance company has charge dropped

A probable cause arrest affidavit said Boston had called about a medical insurance claim that was denied. At the end of the call, Boston allegedly said "Deny, Delay, Depose. You people are next."

lawandcrime.com

 

[rail]

Woman accused of using infamous phrase, threatening health insurance company has charge dropped

A probable cause arrest affidavit said Boston had called about a medical insurance claim that was denied. At the end of the call, Boston allegedly said "Deny, Delay, Depose. You people are next."

lawandcrime.com

"Prosecutors did not say why they dropped the case but it likely was tied at least in part to Boston’s lack of criminal history and her that she had no desire to actually carry out the alleged threat."

Nah, that's because this was a total BS reactionary charge that should have never been brought. "Delay, Deny, Defend. You people are next " How the fork a DA, and a Judge, presumably, found probable cause on this is beyond comprehension.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

If “Deny, Delay, Depose. You people are next” is the threat she said, i think it would be pretty hard to convict just on those words alone..

 

[0rion]

She got a stupid tax. Hopefully she learned her lesson not to be stupid.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

She got a stupid tax. Hopefully she learned her lesson not to be stupid.

Counterpoint I much prefer this kind of stupid than the one most of us actually practice

 

[0rion]

Counterpoint I much prefer this kind of stupid than the one most of us actually practice

I have a low threshold for stupid. Especially people who do stupid things and expect no consequences.