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Not getting my hopes up…but if this was the start of a ton of billionaires meeting the same fate…this country might still have a chance…
except…
the next of kin to billionaires are probably kunts also
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...ts-2024-12-04/
UnitedHealthcare executive fatally shot in Manhattan, reports say
By Amina Niasse and Leroy Leo
December 4, 2024 9:25 AM CSTUpdated 17 min ago
Dec 4 (Reuters) - Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, was fatally shot in the chest on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan, several media outlets reported, citing police officials.
The New York Police Department said a man was shot in front of the Hilton's address around 6:40 a.m. ET (1140 GMT) and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, but did not confirm the victim's iden y.
Investigators told CNN that the gunman was waiting in the area for some time before Thompson's arrival, and the New York Times reported that police view the attack as targeted.
Police were still searching for the suspect, who fled on foot wearing a black face mask and a gray backpack, the Times reported.
UnitedHealth Group was hosting a scheduled investor event at the Hilton on Wednesday, but Chief Executive Andrew Witty took the stage about one hour after its start to announce it was cancelling the remainder of the program.
"We're dealing with a very serious medical situation with one of our team members, and as a result, I'm afraid we're going to have to bring to a close the event today," UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty said.
UnitedHealth did not respond to a request for comment.
Thompson was named UnitedHealthcare CEO in April 2021 after working at the company since 2004 in several departments, according to the company's web site.
Not getting my hopes up…but if this was the start of a ton of billionaires meeting the same fate…this country might still have a chance…
except…
the next of kin to billionaires are probably kunts also
If it had been in Texas there surely would have been a good guy with a gun to thwart the shooter
Good riddance.
Dirty, greedy insurance companies and big pharma have it coming. They've screwed over the masses for far, far too long with their profiteering. Greedy, filthy billionaire executives profiteering off the health and sickness of fellow citizens and people, are s bag slimeball white-collar thugs that should not be allowed to exist. Too big to fail, is too big to exist.
It is time to revolutionize the cause against oligarchical crapitalist healthcare and make America healthy again. A half-century ago, the USA led the world in global life expectancy; today, America sits at a very lowly #49, on the verge of falling out of the top quartile, which is downright embarrassing for the "tOp EcOnOmY iN ThE wOrLd".
Hence..... good riddance.
In this case, the good guy with the gun was the shooter. Good on him for eliminating an evil termitehopefully the greedy dead s bag's assets get liquidated and seized by the government and we immediately start paying off all of the national debt with this dirty money. It's time for a large-scale seizure of big corp assets & greedy money.
Hopefully the U.S. seizes 100% of the assets and thus the "next of kin" doesn't see a nary penny. That's how this should work.
Suddenly Andy cares about "greedy filthy billionaires"
What if the shooter was the good guy with the gun? That CEO had quite a body count on him.
Does United cover cognitive dissonance?Good riddance.
Dirty, greedy insurance companies and big pharma have it coming. They've screwed over the masses for far, far too long with their profiteering. Greedy, filthy billionaire executives profiteering off the health and sickness of fellow citizens and people, are s bag slimeball white-collar thugs that should not be allowed to exist. Too big to fail, is too big to exist.
It is time to revolutionize the cause against oligarchical crapitalist healthcare and make America healthy again. A half-century ago, the USA led the world in global life expectancy; today, America sits at a very lowly #49, on the verge of falling out of the top quartile, which is downright embarrassing for the "tOp EcOnOmY iN ThE wOrLd".
Hence..... good riddance.
In this case, the good guy with the gun was the shooter. Good on him for eliminating an evil termite
Hopefully the U.S. seizes 100% of the assets and thus the "next of kin" doesn't see a nary penny. That's how this should work.
As a result of the shooting, United Healthcare will be announcing free healthcare for all the company said.
It'll take a few more. Make America Rage Again.
That's what I'm hoping for from da libs
Probably not, but there's always January 6That's what I'm hoping for from da libs
Won't get it from the libs; you're gonna have to hope for it from the left.That's what I'm hoping for from da libs
Anyone hurt by rising healthcare costs yet?
If there's something I can agree with Berniecrats on, it's economically progressive populism, particularly with respect to healthcare and corporate greed in that sector.Suddenly Andy cares about "greedy filthy billionaires"
The populist right I agree with on most things but those that claim to be "pro-life" are often really just "pro life only in the womb" but don't give a rat's ass about people who have actually been born and are alive and fully conscious.
I've long advocated for defunding state public education and funding public nationalized healthcare (with right-to-try) and a public and private option. I've ran large SimCities since childhood with all private schools and fully socialized medicine and that's the combo that works the best. It is the same for real life. People should have all the choices available. And people need to quit smoking, drinking, and eating junk food,
...but some people are just unfairly cursed, live a healthy lifestyle and still get stage 3 ovarian cancer at age 41, what do you do then? What did she do wrong? Never smoked, rarely drank, didn't do drugs, hiked, ate right her whole life. Not 65, not eligible for Medicare. Her husband makes too much money so she's not eligible for Medicaid. Private insurance is too expensive and only HDHPs (with the ty re ed stock market dependent HSA concept) are offered at her husband's job, what does she do? Accept death in order to save her husband and kids their live savings?
the USA.
Non sequitur. You sound like a generic, establishmentarian Democrat, crapitalist neocon.
Hopefully the price gougers. Pro life should mean all lives matter, not just unborn lives.
You sound like a generic Trump .
Because generic Trump s totally, totally campaign on economic healthcare populism and abolishing or at least severely regulating the private insurance industry and actually lowering costs for patients to reasonable prices that are on par with the rest of the world. Not once did Trump (nor Biden/Harris) mention that the US has fallen from #1 to #49 in the world in life expectancy; if I were running, I would bring that up at every single rally. Every single rally.
Though, I'd have to say that Trump is much more of an economic populist than his Republican predecessors for a very long time. He's the most economically left GOP President since Nixon and Eisenhower, though he left a lot of his more populist, anti-establishmentarian base out in the cold with the stipulations of the 2017 TCJA, which did much more to appease Wall Street and BlackRock than help John Smith on Main Street. Thanks, Mitch.
Hence the cognitive dissonance. votingrepublican.jpg
Two assassination attempts since July...
both shooters were registered Republicans
There's no question that the Cheney ilk are scared less of populism, regardless of if left, right, or centrist pragmatic.
That's why they tried to shoot Trump just like Cheney shot his "friend" in Feb '06... that's why they supported Biden and Harris... they're clinging desperately to the status quo and are scared of real, populist change.
If the Democrats weren't so damn establishmentarian, warhawkish, and in favor of preserving the current awful status quo at all costs, then maybe they'd deserve a younger populist's vote.
not to deny that the Mitch's, John Thune's and John Cornyn's of the world aren't just awful establishment neocons as well.
So why do you actively want to make US healthcare worse? That's what you voted for when you voted for Trump.If the Democrats weren't so damn establishmentarian, warhawkish, and in favor of preserving the current awful status quo at all costs, then maybe they'd deserve a younger populist's vote.
not to deny that the Mitch's, John Thune's and John Cornyn's of the world aren't just awful establishment neocons as well.
Both righty SAWMs
Trump's only populist in rhetoric. In reality he'll just give a fat tax cut to the rich on our backs through the tariffs that will effectively function as a national sales tax.
Bernie is pro tariff
We've had tariffs in the US for while -- and still have them. Being pro- or anti-tariff is somewhat beside the point.
There will be tariffs.
Trump tends to wield them bluntly and "massively."
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