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…
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?
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