United Healthcare CEO shot and killed in Manhattan

[K Douglas]

Yes, it is. Just like killing a dictator.

Great video of recent reaction. He is becoming John Brown.

Best line one girl says she had "tears running down her legs"......

You generally make sense on most issues but on this one you are so off. You're actually morally justifying taking someone's life simply because their company's business practices are, at least on the surface, questionable. We cannot take that stand or nobody will want to run a large company. Being a CEO is a very challenging position and the sacrifices one makes to do that job are tremendous. You're basically on call 24/7/365, your life is your work. It affects your personal relationships. Many are in therapy. Yet we have folks who sit around and bitch about how this CEO made $10 million last year (most of it non cash), yet nobody blinks an eye when a mediocre NBA player pulls in a similar salary or a movie actor makes $18 million for 3 months of work on the set. What kind of fucking cosmic bunny hole have we fallen into here?

 

[Butler1000]

You generally make sense on most issues but on this one you are so off. You're actually morally justifying taking someone's life simply because their company's business practices are, at least on the surface, questionable. We cannot take that stand or nobody will want to run a large company. Being a CEO is a very challenging position and the sacrifices one makes to do that job are tremendous. You're basically on call 24/7/365, your life is your work. It affects your personal relationships. Many are in therapy. Yet we have folks who sit around and bitch about how this CEO made $10 million last year (most of it non cash), yet nobody blinks an eye when a mediocre NBA player pulls in a similar salary or a movie actor makes $18 million for 3 months of work on the set. What kind of fucking cosmic bunny hole have we fallen into here?

It's not about how much money. It's about the decisions he made to deny 32% of claims, double the national average. To illegally use an AI instead of an actual doctor that was 90% wrong to facilitate the denials.

Imagine if OHIP did that, to save money. And it was your child denied coverage for a life saving, or changing procedure.

He was the CEO and therefore signed off on every policy that harmed policy holders. I have no sympathy, anymore than a chemical product CEO who illegally dumped into a water table toxic chemicals. Or to Tobacco company CEO's. Or that family that lied to Congress about the addictiveness of Opiods.

What he did was sociopathic. Downright evil.

Run it better.

But the fact is the insurance game is a gambling operation. They bet on taking money and not having to pay out. That is thevliteral business model. So the literal business model of health insurance is not to supply coverage, but to deny it. It's a fake middleman

And no one forced him into the position. So no, I have no sympathy for him anymore than any other drifter. Just because they have the title CEO doesn't morally absolve them.