UnitedHealth CEO Assassinated
The murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO is a strange story. On the one hand, the killer obviously was taking steps to avoid getting caught. He was wearing a hoodie. He used a silencer. He clearly had an escape plan.
On the other hand, he was wearing a distinctive backpack. He may have left a food wrapper and a water bottle at the scene. And there was writing on each of the three shell casings (the words "deny," "defend," and "depose").
Guess he wanted style points
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/unitedh...
What are the implications and repercussions of this murder and the state of healthcare in the USA?
Before I say anything what will get me banned?
Obviously who knows what the actual reason for this was. Coulda been a hit, coulda been his wife he’s separated from, coulda been a disgruntled insured whose claim was denied
What I know for sure is this guy was a ****ing scumbag piece of **** who made a whole ton of blood money. Did he deserve to be assassinated? Probably not. Do I care he’s dead? **** no. Did I laugh when I saw he died? Absolutely. This man was directly responsible for ruining or indirectly ending far more lives than his was worth. And that insane USA Today opinion piece clutching pearls over why anyone would celebrate his death? Man **** off you sanctimonious fraud. Imagine having your child’s claim denied because they are going through chemo which shouldn’t make them nauseous and based on nausea it was denied (yes that happened) and wagging your finger at those parents saying they have no right to be happy a FATHER AND A HUSBAND died today
Will this change anything with UHC much less health care in general? Lol ****ing of course not. 90% of their claim denials are based on some faulty AI algorithm and they’re a publicly traded company who will just replace him with another soulless greedy **********
You will not get banned for expressing the above 😀
basically all the threads on reddit about this have people openly cheering
on the one hand, i'm somewhat sympathetic given how broken our system is
on the other hand, i don't think this is how you get positive change
Is murder always wrong?
This is a serious moral and ethical experiment.
i actually would view it as a righteous killing (but don't know enough facts to say so 100% maybe he was just rude to him on the subway?)
but sadly i think the response won't be "should we perhaps consider reforming healthcare so people don't kill insurance providers" and more akin to the "how do we beef up ceo security against these crazies"
I think it's pretty wild pretty much all comments across all platforms are either not sad one bit of openly applauding his death. Not a white knight to be found.
It's why I opened an account here. These days, social media sites are basically populated by zombies.
I doubt there is any sort of implication vis-a-vis healthcare policy but however this is spun is certainly going to depend on what happens with the shooter and their motivations-- if it's a rightwing shooter taking his cues from RFK Jr it'll be used to demonization maga. If it's a left wing shooter taking his cues from Taylor Lorenz it'll be used to demonize the left.
And if we find out his wife hired a hitman then I'm sure the trial will get good ratings or something.
I'll say this much . a couple more ceos of cos like this get snubbed and maybe there is some change . or maybe it's just protection agencies that get rich off that and premiums go higher.
I doubt there is any sort of implication vis-a-vis healthcare policy but however this is spun is certainly going to depend on what happens with the shooter and their motivations-- if it's a rightwing shooter taking his cues from RFK Jr it'll be used to demonization maga. If it's a left wing shooter taking his cues from Taylor Lorenz it'll be used to demonize the left.
And if we find out his wife hired a hitman then I'm sure the trial will get good ratings or something.
I don't know, feels like a pretty unified response.
Yeah, but if we find out the shooter is on a side, those on the other side quickly change their tune. Social media has amnesia like that.
Yeah, I mostly agree but I have hope it's a bin laden type thing. If a lefty killed bin laden there would be some hard feelings out of envy on the right that your side didn't get the kill but you're not going to start defending osb or attacking the left because of it.
Yeah, I mostly agree but I have hope it's a bin laden type thing. If a lefty killed bin laden there would be some hard feelings out of envy on the right that your side didn't get the kill but you're not going to start defending osb or attacking the left because of it.
They got the Democrats to start clamoring for war with Russia during Trump 1-- nobody would have thought that was possible but it happened.
I'm not familiar with this guy. Did he do something specific that was bad, or are some people on Reddit cheering on his death just because he was CEO of a big health insurance company?
If I were planning to murder someone in one of the most heavily surveilled places on earth I'd probably spend less time worrying about getaway plans and more time worrying about disguises. Both important for sure but if he was dressed as like an 80 year old Indian grandma he could have just ditched his grandma suit and strolled out of there
I mean clearly a lot of planning went into it...but the guy stays at a hostel and goes to Starbucks the morning of the event?
And why stay at a hostel when he clearly has money. They're going to want his ID at a hostel the same as any hotel so it's going to need to be a fake either way but he's also going to be forced to interact with more people at a hostel vs a hotel. And then Starbucks the morning of just makes zero sense
If I were planning to murder someone in one of the most heavily surveilled places on earth I'd probably spend less time worrying about getaway plans and more time worrying about disguises. Both important for sure but if he was dressed as like an 80 year old Indian grandma he could have just ditched his grandma suit and strolled out of there
I would have one of those fancy masks that you rip off after the murder is complete and you've escaped, like in the movies.
I mean clearly a lot of planning went into it...but the guy stays at a hostel and goes to Starbucks the morning of the event?
And why stay at a hostel when he clearly has money. They're going to want his ID at a hostel the same as any hotel so it's going to need to be a fake either way but he's also going to be forced to interact with more people at a hostel vs a hotel. And then Starbucks the morning of just makes zero sense
You know more about traveling than I do; but I would assume there is some lower standard of necessary positive identification in a hostel versus a hotel; such as not requiring a credit card deposit.
