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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #69
eschneider wrote: post #35

Do a search for 'UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients' and see what comes up. I'm not saying this is deserved, more that I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to just up and execute an insurance CEO.

Well it’s very unfortunate for all Americans that rely on any healthcare company. Since they will all be increasing their rates soon to cover the expenses of 24/7 armed guards, armored vehicles, etc… Edit: Or a reduction in service quality to cover the new expenses.

As someone who endured UHC for several years, I assure you there is no service quality to reduce.

> How do they still have that many customers if their service was so bad?

Because the people making the decision to purchase UHC services and using UHC services are two wildly different demographics.

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by marky1991 »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #76
marky1991 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by this comment? Could you make your points explicit?

Not this commenter, but how I've often heard it expressed was we created the justice system as a better, more civilized alternative to putting people in holes just outside of town. At such a time the justice system stops working, as it increasingly seems to have RE: the rich, then we resume holes.

This entire line of thinking just seems to be essentially advocacy for a return to that exact system. "Do what we want or we'll go back to random murder".

I wonder if the original commenter would have put the same comment if the article were "man shoots his wife and her lover on discovery of adultery"

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by [deleted] »

legitster wrote: post #13
impish9208 wrote: post #9

My bet is that it’s someone that got stiffed by UHC themself or lost someone close to them. You only have to get prematurely released from the hospital because some representative over the phone says so once for you to see this system is incredibly broken.

There's not many cases in 2024 where people get denied hospital care because of insurance. Get stuck with massive crippling bills? Sure. Can't afford insulin? Likely. But if you are at the hospital and your coverage is denied, legally that's the hospital's problem.

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Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by busterarm »

jredwards wrote: post #88
oceanplexian wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the interest of brevity, they're not called silencers, they're called suppressors since they don't "silence" anything like in a Hollywood movie. Typically a suppressor will reduce the sound signature of a gunshot from something like 140dBA to 110dBA. Still enough to cause hearing damage and be heard a quarter mile away.

The original use case was hearing protection. The modern tactical use case is that it makes it somewhat harder to tell where a shot came from. In almost no scenario does it actually make a gunshot quiet (maybe a subsonic .22).

You can load subsonic rounds in many calibers, but tbf the best and most convenient options are all embargoed from the US because of Russian sanctions.

Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

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Post by llamaimperative »

gk1 wrote: post #72
eschneider wrote: post #35

Do a search for 'UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients' and see what comes up. I'm not saying this is deserved, more that I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to just up and execute an insurance CEO.

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This is not even remotely close to the "big issue" with UHG. There's probably no individual company that's responsible for more dysfunction in the American health system than UHG.

Not that I think it justifies murdering the CEO, but also such is the nature of systematic violation of massive numbers of people's sense of justice.

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