Brian Thompson CEO of United Health Care was murdered (shot several times) by a hit man this morning on the streets in New York.

[Paul158]

What would prompt someone or an organization to hire a hitman to take out a CEO of a large Health Care Company? 

[ionel]

1 hour ago, Paul158 said:

What would prompt someone or an organization to hire a hitman to take out a CEO of a large Health Care Company? 

Well there could be business or personal reasons.  I'm sure they will figure it out.  My disappointment in the initial press event is no one asked and didn't hear any say, how far was the shooter from him.  Shot in back but seems like pretty simple info to know and release since video of the shooter and they know when/where CEO was shot. 

[ionel]

28 minutes ago, ionel said:

Well there could be business or personal reasons.  I'm sure they will figure it out.  My disappointment in the initial press event is no one asked and didn't hear any say, how far was the shooter from him.  Shot in back but seems like pretty simple info to know and release since video of the shooter and they know when/where CEO was shot. 

Video released, saying ~20 feet from behind. 

[Tripnsweep]

In the words of Renzo Gracie, "Somebody must not have liked him very much."

[WrestlingRasta]

I read that the words deny, defend, and depose, were written on the shell casings. 

Someone got ***ducked** by the insurance company....

[headshuck]

Good chance that could be a deflection.

[WrestlingRasta]

Yeah possibly 

[Caveira]

Grainy vid of the shooter 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfY5ffY/

[mspart]

Apparently the perp was seen in a coffee shop shortly before the shooting.   They have his face on coffee shop video. 

mspart

[Caveira]

There are some interview vids on that crazy communist propaganda tik tok site where some uber drivers / possible witnesses said he was camped out there all night waiting for the target.   

[Bigbrog]

No wonder he needed coffee

[uncle bernard]

On 12/5/2024 at 7:30 AM, WrestlingRasta said:

I read that the words deny, defend, and depose, were written on the shell casings. 

Someone got ***ducked** by the insurance company....

United has the highest denied claim rate of all major insurance companies. Notoriously evil company. Almost every social media post they make (pre-shooting) has comments from customers begging for them to cover life-saving care. Their facebook post mourning the CEO had 10x as many "smile" reactions as "sad" or "like" reactions.

There is a very serious undercurrent of anger that is starting to bubble to surface in this country. I wonder if we'll start to see more oligarchs get shot at.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

35 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

United has the highest denied claim rate of all major insurance companies. Notoriously evil company. Almost every social media post they make (pre-shooting) has comments from customers begging for them to cover life-saving care. Their facebook post mourning the CEO had 10x as many "smile" reactions as "sad" or "like" reactions.

There is a very serious undercurrent of anger that is starting to bubble to surface in this country. I wonder if we'll start to see more oligarchs get shot at.

Domestic terrorism.

[Caveira]

10 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Domestic terrorism.

There is an alarming number of vids from people praising the murderer.   Not news clips just random humans on TikTok/youtube/instagram. 

fun fact.  I’ll bet 110% of them voted blue.   

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

Just now, Caveira said:

There is an alarming number of vids from people praising the murderer.   Not news clips just random humans on TikTok/youtube/instagram. 

fun fact.  I’ll bet 110% of them voted blue.   

The party of joy!

It is really interesting.  The killer's outfit is very familiar.  It almost as if I have seen something similar on a group of people in the past.

[uncle bernard]

25 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Domestic terrorism.

Sure. Vigilantism is bad.

However, health insurance, as an industry, murders 1000s of people every year. It has no justification for existence. It doesn't expand access to care. It doesn't decrease costs. It does nothing beneficial. It's sole purpose is to be a leach on the system and extract profit for rich people.

So while what happened to him is wrong, I'm not gonna pretend I'm devastated. I'm devastated for the families who were ruined under that man's leadership.

[mspart]

And things would be much better under single payer?

mspart

[red viking]

1 minute ago, mspart said:

And things would be much better under single payer?

mspart

Yes. We have the worst system in world. By far the most expensive with poor health outcomes 

[uncle bernard]

2 minutes ago, mspart said:

And things would be much better under single payer?

mspart

100%. Look around the world. Not a single citizen who lives in a single payer country would trade their system for ours.

 

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

15 minutes ago, uncle bernard said:

Sure. Vigilantism is bad.

However, health insurance, as an industry, murders 1000s of people every year. It has no justification for existence. It doesn't expand access to care. It doesn't decrease costs. It does nothing beneficial. It's sole purpose is to be a leach on the system and extract profit for rich people.

So while what happened to him is wrong, I'm not gonna pretend I'm devastated. I'm devastated for the families who were ruined under that man's leadership.

Murder is wrong, BUT...

Pretty interesting take.

Edited December 6 by Interviewed_at_Weehawken

[uncle bernard]

5 minutes ago, red viking said:

Yes. We have the worst system in world. By far the most expensive with poor health outcomes 

It's so funny when conservatives like @mspart fear monger about single-payer because they have to pretend that the entire rest of the developed world just....doesn't exist? America is somehow the greatest country in the world....and also the only one who can't make the world's most successful, cost effective healthcare system work?

Totally incoherent worldview. 

[mspart]

So then the government would be killing people as you say.   That is already demonstrated.   

Also if single payer is so awesome, why is BC sending cancer patients to Bellingham WA for cancer treatments and guess what, there is no line for them to wait in.   Yes, single payers is the utopia of medical care - NOT.  

For more wonderful news about single payer plans look at the Indian reservations and the V.A.    Oh the VA is run so well. 

mspart

[uncle bernard]

Just now, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Murder is wrong, but...

Pretty interesting take.

Have you posted a single time mourning the deaths of 20,000 Palestinian children?

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

33 minutes ago, Caveira said:

There is an alarming number of vids from people praising the murderer.   Not news clips just random humans on TikTok/youtube/instagram. 

fun fact.  I’ll bet 110% of them voted blue.   

The Joyful ones like "weapons of war" now?

[Caveira]

9 minutes ago, red viking said:

Yes. We have the worst system in world. By far the most expensive with poor health outcomes 

I can’t imagine why millions aren’t swimming over to Europe instead of claiming asylum here.   Weird.