It was Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare. It is the "Medicare" Advantage company with which my wife and I were, unfortunately, stupid enough to sign up. One word of advice: It is NOT Medicare. It is a scam devised by George W. Bush and his cronies to carry out his threat to privatize (meaning bankrupt) Social Security and Medicare. Thompson was on his way to the company's annual "investor conference," investors being the ONLY people his company and the others in that business give a shit about.
I am truly sorry that his wife and kids lost him. I am even sorrier for all the people who lost loved ones due to his company denying them medical care that they needed. Medicare Advantage Companies, per Thom Hartmann's newsletter today, deny 18% of the claims submitted. It is an industry built upon the sickness and death of their customers, about which Thompson, doubtless to wild applause, was about to inform the "investors."
Thoughts and prayers to his family - isn't that what we do for all shootings? He got where he was and his company got where it is only because anyone in that position is a sociopath - not giving a rat's ass about anyone else's life, feelings, family. So, send thoughts and prayers. Send them also to those in whose deaths he and his company were complicit.
THIS is just one reason why we need National Health like every other "civilized" country. However, seeing what has just been installed in OUR White House, maybe we are NOT civilized?
I just finished edits on my newest health care management textbook. Have a chapter on violence in health care and a case study on insurance denials. Did not put the two together. Honestly did not see that coming.
Take a stroll over to Reddit and peruse some of the threads about the shooting. According to the Daily Beast, some commenters more or less saying he reaped that which he sewed were verified doctors!
ALL the robber barons should! Rama-lama-ding-dong ought to be quaking in his boots as should Smuk and any other lunatic who thinks they deserve another tax break more than we deserve the health care WE PAY FOR and the retirement we PAID for!
Which is why the shitbag CEO of Anthem "got his" yesterday. One down, many to go.
It was Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare. It is the "Medicare" Advantage company with which my wife and I were, unfortunately, stupid enough to sign up. One word of advice: It is NOT Medicare. It is a scam devised by George W. Bush and his cronies to carry out his threat to privatize (meaning bankrupt) Social Security and Medicare. Thompson was on his way to the company's annual "investor conference," investors being the ONLY people his company and the others in that business give a shit about.
I am truly sorry that his wife and kids lost him. I am even sorrier for all the people who lost loved ones due to his company denying them medical care that they needed. Medicare Advantage Companies, per Thom Hartmann's newsletter today, deny 18% of the claims submitted. It is an industry built upon the sickness and death of their customers, about which Thompson, doubtless to wild applause, was about to inform the "investors."
Thoughts and prayers to his family - isn't that what we do for all shootings? He got where he was and his company got where it is only because anyone in that position is a sociopath - not giving a rat's ass about anyone else's life, feelings, family. So, send thoughts and prayers. Send them also to those in whose deaths he and his company were complicit.
THIS is just one reason why we need National Health like every other "civilized" country. However, seeing what has just been installed in OUR White House, maybe we are NOT civilized?
No we are NOT civilized!
Perfectly said!
Thanks
I just finished edits on my newest health care management textbook. Have a chapter on violence in health care and a case study on insurance denials. Did not put the two together. Honestly did not see that coming.
Take a stroll over to Reddit and peruse some of the threads about the shooting. According to the Daily Beast, some commenters more or less saying he reaped that which he sewed were verified doctors!
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It was the CEO of UnitedHealth Care.
Whichever. The pissants are interchangeable. All bad.
United Healthcare--or was there another?????????
Yeah, he's Uited Healthcare - which also pulls shit like Blue Cross does.
He was being investigated by the DOJ, too, but the words on the bullets are pretty personal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14157793/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-doj-investigation-shot-dead.html
Yes, and that's what the insurance scumbags should take as truth from this.
ALL the robber barons should! Rama-lama-ding-dong ought to be quaking in his boots as should Smuk and any other lunatic who thinks they deserve another tax break more than we deserve the health care WE PAY FOR and the retirement we PAID for!