Poll of the Day > United Health Group CEO murdered in apparent targeted attack in NYC

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https://x.com/BNONews/status/1864310632821985288

Suspect basically stood in the bushes in front of a hotel where their investor conference was going to take place, waited for the CEO, popped him, and got away. They haven't found him.

"Apparently" targeted because the suspect just waited while lots of pedestrians walked by like usual and he didn't engage with any of them.

Guy's gun was silenced, it jammed while he was shooting, he fixed it, and kept shooting. Dude knew what he was going.

wtf that is some James Bond stuff

United's stock went up 2% since the announcement... so even in Death the CEO did a good job :/

Lokarin posted...

United's stock went up 2% since the announcement... so even in Death the CEO did a good job :/

That's dark.
Also 100% on this idea. Investors killing CEOs for short term gains lol. Just seems like the final level capitalism right there.

Now when a company is failing, don't lay off workers. Just kill the CEO.

It's more likely some disgruntled dude whose wife died after United Healthcare denied their claims.

Medical insurance should not be for-profit. Actually I'll go a step further and say healthcare in general shouldn't be for-profit. People like this CEO getting wealthy off of other people's suffering... I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this honestly

Far-Queue posted...

It's more likely some disgruntled dude whose wife died after United Healthcare denied their claims.

Which I'm sure investigators have thought of, but I expect that's still a very long list of potential suspects.

Not surprised

We're in end-stage capitalism/Gilded Age 2: Electric Boogaloo, so I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing more of this. Assassinations and kidnappings of robber barons weren't uncommon right before of the Great Depression.

Other possibility would be a corporate hit, but that seems less likely.

It should say something that no one feels sympathy for this guy. We really did just miss the chance to eat the rich, and instead are going warp speed into oligarchy.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Assassinations and kidnappings of robber barons weren't uncommon right before of the Great Depression.

Lotta babies stolen too.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It should say something that no one feels sympathy for this guy.

There's a base level of resentment for all major CEOs that they're hoarding their wealth instead of spending it on better causes than watching a number go up, but for a health insurance CEO in particular, every single dollar this guy received in compensation is a dollar of coverage that somebody was denied. There's a very real, measurable cost in human lives that can be tied to every multi-million dollar bonus this guy received, and it's not particularly surprising that nobody's feeling too bad about the death of the guy at the top of a giant pile of blood money.

There was a GPS tracker on his bike, it would be shocking if he actually got away. How would you do that in new York where there's a camera on every curb?

Oof, let's hope the perp gets caught

coyot posted...

Thompson had threats on his life. Another reason to start working from home. why didnt he gtfo or hire security?

It'd surprise me if he hasn't had threats on his life for his entire career. He was in charge of the insurance company with one of the highest claim denial rates in the country. You don't spend your career sentencing people to death so you can buy a new yacht without making plenty of enemies, but most of those enemies' threats don't actually amount to anything. This one just happened to.

Yellow posted...

There was a GPS tracker on his bike, it would be shocking if he actually got away.

He apparently ditched the bike (which was a rental) in Central Park and continued on foot, so unless he used an identifiable credit card to rent it or was clearly caught on camera, his chance of escape is actually pretty high. You can cover a remarkable amount of ground on foot in Manhattan, and pretty quickly get into areas that are dense enough that simply knowing that you went into them is largely useless for figuring out where you went.

It won't surprise me if he is caught, just because some very big money has a personal stake in making sure that happens, but it also won't surprise me if he successfully escaped.

United healthcare is my insurance and theyre pretty good. This has to be an inside job.

https://tinyurl.com/yf2bnmz8

^ link to a NY Times article couldn't fit the whole URL

Bullet casings were found with messages written on them including the words "delay" and "deny".

coyot posted...

why didnt he gtfo or hire security?

The security thing is bizarre but he was speaking at an investor conference, which is basically the only group of people aside from the board that the CEO actually cares about. He had to turn up for it.

ItIsSoOver posted...

If they find the shooter, trump could earn a lot of goodboy points with a lot of people by pardoning him.

No, the people who hate Trump would never like anything he does , no matter the circumstances.

There will be some ulterior, nefarious, and suspicious motive for Trump doing anything that they might otherwise find to their liking.

Mystery_man2 posted...

United healthcare is my insurance and theyre pretty good. This has to be an inside job.

Reading over the comments in all of the articles and videos , there seems to be the exact opposite opinion of United Healthcare.

ItIsSoOver posted...

If they find the shooter, trump could earn a lot of goodboy points with a lot of people by pardoning him.

I doubt this is a federal crime unless maybe the guy traveled interstate

Mystery_man2 posted...

United healthcare is my insurance and theyre pretty good. This has to be an inside job.

32% claim denial rate, national average is 16%. Doctors hate United Health due to the suffering and death they cause.

Health insurance is a massive scam, and Americans seriously need to wake up and demand free health care. The entire industry is "Give us your money and we might cover you if you're not seriously ill. If you are, then die.".

It seems he has extreme political views but at this point it's impossible to tell what those views are

KingInBlack posted...

32% claim denial rate, national average is 16%. Doctors hate United Health due to the suffering and death they cause.

Under Thompson, they also started using AI to process claims, found that it had a 90% error rate, but decided to keep using it anyway because of how much money it was saving.

KingInBlack posted...

Health insurance is a massive scam, and Americans seriously need to wake up and demand free health care. The entire industry is "Give us your money and we might cover you if you're not seriously ill. If you are, then die.".

Health insurance is also the reason it's so expensive to get care without insurance. Because insurance companies have the buying power to negotiate lower prices for services, doctors and hospitals have to inflate their prices to offset that, to say nothing of the administrative costs associated with that negotiation. This is a large part of why the US pays more than twice as many tax dollars per capita for health care than any other country in the world, despite not actually having a government health care system.

The whole thing is a racket that means everybody has to pay more and most people see worse service than they'd see anywhere else.

Damn_Underscore posted...

It seems he has extreme political views but at this point it's impossible to tell what those views are

I'm not sure "letting people die for fun and profit is bad" is a particularly extreme political view.

adjl posted...

I'm not sure "letting people die for fun and profit is bad" is a particularly extreme political view.

Dude he murdered someone in cold blood and wrote a mysterious message on the bullets. He definitely knew what he was doing with the alliteration, this is some weird stuff

Damn_Underscore posted...

Dude he murdered someone in cold blood

He murdered someone who's made a very substantial fortune off of abandoning people to die who were paying him to do exactly the opposite of that. I doubt it was cold blood. There was almost certainly a direct motivation there.

Resorting to murder is extreme, certainly, but the belief that Thompson was a bad person was pretty tame.

Damn_Underscore posted...

and wrote a mysterious message on the bullets

There's no particular mystery there. Delays and denials of care are common in health insurance, and United was one of the worst in that regard. He was presumably going for the irony of killing Thompson with the same concepts he used to kill countless others.

KingInBlack posted...

32% claim denial rate, national average is 16%. Doctors hate United Health due to the suffering and death they cause.

Health insurance is a massive scam, and Americans seriously need to wake up and demand free health care. The entire industry is "Give us your money and we might cover you if you're not seriously ill. If you are, then die.".

While I agree health insurance is a massive scam I don't think free Healthcare is the right way to go. Just don't allow pharmaceutical companies to price gouge, look at prices in other places vs here and you'll realize how cheap it could be.

Wonder how many bodies would have to drop for the rich to realize they've gone too far. Definitely feel like they'd just up security before ever admitting that they're at all the problem.

dragon504 posted...

Wonder how many bodies would have to drop for the rich to realize they've gone too far. Definitely feel like they'd just up security before ever admitting that they're at all the problem.

No more CEO bodies will drop. This was their wakeup call. They're all going to jack up their security (on the company's dollar of course, and by extension, yours) and privatize every move/travel/hotel they make.

The shooter's message was loud and clear. Unfortunately for him and the rest of us plebs, nothing's going to change (except for the aforementioned cost increases to pay for the new standard of security for the c-suite)

Jen0125 posted...

I doubt this is a federal crime unless maybe the guy traveled interstate

The belief now is that the gun was bought in Connecticut, so there's at least been that much interstate travel.

ItIsSoOver posted...

If they find the shooter, trump could earn a lot of goodboy points with a lot of people by pardoning him.

Lol why would he? The shooter targeted a billionaire who made money at the expense of others just...like Trump. This should have rich people like him afraid, if anything.

KingInBlack posted...

Health insurance is a massive scam, and Americans seriously need to wake up and demand free health care.

Americans just let a criminal, rapist, fascist, dementia-riddeled nut case, who promised to ruin the economy, back into the White House. We are pretty fucking far away right now from people realizing they should demand Healthcare change.

Americans have been lulled into a weird type of passive submissiveness where shoveling shit is something to expect, as opposed get angry about. And when we do riot, it's for the wrong reasons (Jan 6).

This is what a dying empire looks like.

Cupcake2006 posted...

No more CEO bodies will drop. This was their wakeup call. They're all going to jack up their security (on the company's dollar of course, and by extension, yours) and privatize every move/travel/hotel they make.

Him not posting some sort of manifesto or warning that more will fall unless changes happen is definitely a lost moment, since the public is going to need to be handheld to be finally angry at the billionaire status quo.

Then again, it was likely more personal then this dude wanting to kick off a revolution.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Lol why would he? The shooter targeted a billionaire who made money at the expense of others just...like Trump. This should have rich people like him afraid, if anything.

I'd personally compare this to Aaron Bushnell self-immolating. It might seem pretty significant, but what will it accomplish? Nothing. That's my opinion, totally fine if people disagree.

Mods aren't playing around with this one lol.

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Cupcake2006 posted...

No more CEO bodies will drop. This was their wakeup call. They're all going to jack up their security (on the company's dollar of course, and by extension, yours) and privatize every move/travel/hotel they make.

The shooter's message was loud and clear. Unfortunately for him and the rest of us plebs, nothing's going to change (except for the aforementioned cost increases to pay for the new standard of security for the c-suite)

They'll go down eventually, maybe not in our lifetime but when is the last time a system didn't fall eventually? Even most current systems came at the expense of predecessors. Nations rise and fall and that's how it'll always be.

I haven't read the full quote chain yet but are we seriously discussing whether or not murder is illegal?

Damn_Underscore posted...

Dude he murdered someone in cold blood and wrote a mysterious message on the bullets. He definitely knew what he was doing with the alliteration, this is some weird stuff

It should be worth noting, Anthem announced yesterday (same day this dude was killed) that they weren't going to pay for full anesthesia anymore - a very poor day to announce that.

As of 30 minutes ago, they just announced they are backing off that idea. Not even 24 hours later.

Now, the backlash of that announcement was large enough to likely to reverse their plan alone, but I can't help but think the CEO of United being whacked for being a greedy ass had something to do with it. Turns out, making billionaires afraid DOES work, and they know it. Precisely why they hope the public will roll over and be too busy arguing over trans people in bathrooms or whatever to notice them fucking us over blind.

VioletZer0 posted...

I haven't read the full quote chain yet but are we seriously discussing whether or not murder is illegal?

Whether or not it's a federal crime, which depends how many states were involved.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Now, the backlash of that announcement was large enough to likely to reverse their plan alone, but I can't help but think the CEO of United being whacked for being a greedy ass had something to do with it. Turns out, making billionaires afraid DOES work, and they know it. Precisely why they hope the public will roll over and be too busy arguing over trans people in bathrooms or whatever to notice them f***ing us over blind.

Yeah, this wasn't exactly a smart time to announce "you only get to be asleep for the first hour of your surgery lol."

In a statement to NBC News,a spokesperson for Anthem BCBS said,There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result, we have decided to not proceed with this policy change."

no there wasn't

as it turns out, eating the rich works. whodathunkit.

Although unlikely I am hoping for jury nullification.

VioletZer0 posted...

Although unlikely I am hoping for jury nullification.

this is so stupid

don't open that can of worms up holy fuck lmao

no matter how many ceos americans kill their country is still fucked \_()_/

you have removed one of the hydra's heads congrats

the body is the Republican party

ReturnOfFa posted...

this is so stupid

don't open that can of worms up holy fuck lmao

Why?

VioletZer0 posted...

Why?

Set the precident for selecting juries to pardon certain murders and it will certainly be misused against your side very quickly. Sorry that I was rude though. I'm understanding people's frustrations a lot more.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Set the precident for selecting juries to pardon certain murders and it will certainly be misused against your side very quickly. Sorry that I was rude though. I'm understanding people's frustrations a lot more.

You are good. I just wanted to know what you meant.

Jury nullification is a right granted to juries since the beginning and it's there for a reason.