United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan
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I know it sounds cynical, but I’m kind of surprised this doesn’t happen more often:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-shot
Ralph Nader has been mentioning for several years the take over of the medical insurance services by large corporations and the high salaries of their executives. They have laying off workers to produce more profits. Bernie Sander was blocked by the Democrats leaders to avoid his program of medicare for all and they chose a Wall Street candidate known as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Democrats and Republicans are interchangeables
Ralph Nader calls for an end to the corporate takeover of Medicare
He had several death threats of people claiming lack of coverage.
This cartel have rejected many claims, lack of coverage, and several peoples have died
Nobody knows if the killer was a relative of a dead person or a sick person, and ex employee, and he has lost coverage, or one of his claim was rejected .
That industry one day is going to blow up along with the whole capitalist system and most people are dreaming
Michael Roberts – US economy: an exceptional boom or a bubble to burst?
Problem I face is that I have a rather uncommon first and second name combination, which ironically is shared with a guy in the US who used to be the CEO of a large Medical Insurance Company!
Might reconsider the possible trip to the US next year?
Pretty soon some fanatics are going to be targeting health insurance workers, as they did during the Covid 19 pandemic targeting medical students, nurses, physician assistants and medical doctors. Several specialists and internists were killed.
They never hit the capitalist class, on the contrary, they protect and love them. pure masochism.
There is a good article published on the SOYMB explaining the futility of this type of assassination and this is a very powerful industry that produce large profits and it has large wall street investments, and like a good winding clock will continue operating, they just replace the missing part,
They paid 22 millions dollars ransom to some hackers . They calculate that the loss was around 705 billions dollars, and the victim of New York was under stock trade investigation, but several members of the US congress ( the club of millionaires elected by the workers ) were involved in stocks trade too and they had to pass an act because it became public
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1679#:~:text=%2F21%2F2023)-,Bipartisan%20Ban%20on%20Congressional%20Stock%20Ownership%20Act%20of%202023,any%20other%20form%20of%20security. H.R.1679 – Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2023
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/03/ransomware-payment-debate-resurfaces-amid-change-healthcare-incident/395026/#:~:text=Change%20Healthcare%20reportedly%20made%20a,reemerge%20under%20a%20new%20name.
Ransomware payment debate resurfaces amid Change Healthcare incidenthttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/05/vzlh-d05.html
UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down on New York City street
A law enforcement manhunt is underway in New York City for the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the sidewalk outside of a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning.
The killer left a cellphone and empty bottle of water, and he run away on an electric bike from a rental station, all three things are traceable, phone calls, DNA and credit card/ ATM card used to rent the bike
Hit on a CEO
United provides healthcare coverage to almost 50 million people, bringing in $281 billion in revenue and paying Thompson more $10.2 million in total compensation package annually.
Normally, when someone is tragically murdered (God rest his soul), it would not be customary to mention their comp package. But it’s unfortunately relevant to this story because hordes of people have seized on this murder, acting like it was warranted because a healthcare company CEO must be, in their telling, quite evil. Some have theorized that it’s a spurned patient, someone who was deeply wronged, who may have a vendetta against Thompson. That is possible, but we don’t know enough yet.
Some people have taken to celebrating this theoretical vigilantism, like prominent journalist Taylor Lorenz, who in few words has suggested that more CEOs be gone after due to their perceived misdeeds.
https://www.leftvoice.org/there-are-five-million-ways-to-kill-a-ceo-but-ending-for-profit-healthcare-requires-more/
There Are Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, But Ending For-Profit Healthcare Requires MoreAll of social media is talking about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, and much of the country seems to be in favor. But individual revenge will not be enough to end the injustice of this system.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 5, 2024
Early Wednesday morning, Brian Thompson was walking into a hotel in Manhattan, when a figure in a hoodie stepped out from behind a car and shot him in the back.
Since then, it feels like there is no other topic on social media. The entire country was talking about the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), the largest health insurance company in the United States, with a market valuation of almost half a trillion dollars.
Pretty much everyone was celebrating, and the jokes were endless. Would he be denied coverage if he was picked up by an out-of-network ambulance? Or get turned away from the hospital because the bullet wound was a pre-existing condition? Did his plan cover assassination? A vacuous statement from UHC has gotten over 33,000 laugh reacts!
There were also long, moving testimonies from clients of UnitedHealthcare about when they were denied medical care, sent enormous bills, or forced to spend months on the phone. And former call center employees recalled the ongoing pain of being forced to deny people’s claims.
The assassin fled the scene on a Citi Bike and disappeared into Central Park. Yet everyone assumed that the shooter was motivated by the near-universal hatred of these parasites. According to news reports, the bullet casings said “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” — seemingly a reference to a book called Delay, Deny, Defend about how and why insurance companies avoid paying insurance claims. The motive for the killing might be quite close to the popular imagination.
This is going to be similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement, trying to motivate capitalism to create reforms to benefits the vast majority of the peoples, another movement for reformism. The problem are not the CEO, the problem is capitalism
Am American who advocates hate speech calling it free speech, now fears for his life as he has been identified as looking like the killer of Healthcare CEO.
That is the social character of the United States of Guns, there are more guns than citizens, schools, hospital and libraries, and in the poor neighborhoods there is a church in every corners and many pastors carry guns.
In others countries if peoples had guns they will overthrow the government,
and the USA did not allow citizens of others nation to have gunsThe second amendment is a racist law because Indians and blacks were not allowed to have guns, they would have rebelled against the state
Following on from Mike Foster’s zoom talk last Friday on political comedy, one of my favourite current comedians, Bill Burr, chimes in on the CEO being assassinated in Manhattan:
The press has not said that this individualistic act is a reflex of the discontent that exist in the American society within the young people and the election of Donald trump is also a reflex of that discontent within the older workers and the people from the rural areas Many youngsters didn’t vote for either political parties
Not just CEOs.
BBC News – Court finds neo-Nazi planned attack at law firm
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