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"We're not denying you healthcare. We just won't pay for it."

Exactly !! Finally a win

You got that right, God.

Wasn’t he going to a shareholders meeting probably to talk about how they can maximize their profits and bonuses. Idk it’s sad he died but people are mad.

Healthcare is a basic human right. Having to pay for it, over and above the taxes already paid, is nothing short of a fucking abomination.

Dear God, Please send angels and common sense to my sis that voted to have her Grandson’s healthcare compromised. You’ve heard our prayers for 18 years after he was born with Dandy Walker Syndrome, a hole in his heart, and one kidney. Without Obama his parents would be bankrupt. Amen.

Isn’t the current health care system part of the basis for the Saw movies? It was hard to tell through the projectile vomit coming from my mouth.

I wonder how many people he let the proverbial "trolley car" roll over so he could have an extra boat.

Karma’s a bitch!

How many times have we heard Republicans propose "2nd Amendment solutions" ? Murder is wrong, and the killer must come to justice. Mourning the victim, however, is optional.

But is it a hit? How does removing that individual change their practices? We need legislators willing to regulate them instead of giving in to their lobby. That person's death changes nothing for anyone.

On the hate for health insurance execs; Thoughts and deductibles to their friends & family Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network Which of you ignoramuses think your life will be better after Trump and his evil demons gut health care?

Health Insurance should be FREE

Who remembers all the right wing claims about "death panels" during the uproar over Obamacare? My wife was an accountant for a hospital. She saw medical billing from the inside. "Death panels" have existed for many decades. But they're not called that - they're called insurance companies.

My feeling is this changes nothing. The next CEO will just have better security. These companies care as little for this loss as they do for the insured. They saved 10 million.

The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, aka the introduction of profiteering in health care.

That’s a great way of explaining it. Secular Talk also explained it very well!

The mainstream media is eager to brainwash people into thinking that this is some horrible act that people are outraged over. Meanwhile the #UnitedHealthCare FB post announcing their CEO's death is at 50K laugh emojis. they had to shut off the comments too. You're not supposed to harm your betters!

The only experience I have of 'US healthcare' was treating a tourist from the US in the UK. The guy was having a STEMI, and while we were blue lighting him to a nearby cardiac centre, he kept going on about insurance and how much this would cost. This was his main concern while his life was at risk.

Seems to me a domestic terrorist, because that's what health insurance is, reaped what he sewed.

It's more like...shrug. What do you expect after years of systemic abuse and increasing inequality? People are feeling more powerless and desperate. As that increases, what do you think we can expect?

the meeting he was on his way to on how to screw over people and make more money still went on. they didn't even care about the ceo to postpone their meeting. So why should we care about the ceo

🔻Let’s not forget that Oscar Health is a Joshua Kushner company. 🔻Rick Scott scammed Medicare of BILLIONS while CEO of his Florida hospital…YET Floridians made him their governor and then a US senator. 🔹The American people need better marketing.

Health insurance is a bet that you won't need care, placed with the bookie for a network of industries that ensure you will. It is more profitable to keep you sick and taking multiple interacting drugs for life than to cure you. The incentives are backwards.

Funny enough, I just got a bill today for $400 and some change...due Dec 22. Cool.

A father recently said this to the drunk driver that killed his daughter. “For the rest of my life I’m going to hate you. And when I arrive in hell and you come there, I’m going to open the gate for you,” Warner continued. Who creates that sentiment thousands of times? Insurance companies.

Maybe some all-powerful being with smiting abilities can come and help… clear the backlog.

Insurance companies are a scam. Over the last 50 years they have become middle-men in the biggest rip off of the American people. We have to de-couple medical insurance with employment and make it a non-profit industry. Universal healthcare.

There is no war but class war.

Same, the man who did this is a hero. If they rules they wrote are to end your life unjustly, then don't go out quietly.

Universal Health Care is a good thing

I’m happy he is dead God. All CEOs should get popped like that

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No, based on all the memes, they're laughing because a guy got murdered in the street. Goodbye God, I left Twitter to get away from this kind of stuff

Amen. Worked at Blue Cross for a year and observed use of AI to deny claims which most do not appeal (which is complex and time consuming) 😡😡😡

I suppose I feel about his death, as a stranger who engages in public harm, the same way he'd feel about mine, as a cost center.

God speaks the truth and he is the way. Yawah.

Would you say the same thing to MLK to his face? No you wouldn’t

That’s the fun (and marginally psychotic part), how do you intend to get that through. Answer: you can’t, it won’t happen. I love your whataboutism. It’s really funny. Maybe I am psychotic, maybe I like the revolution, but I’m not claiming to be on a high horse like your pathetic excuse for a take.

These people watched Saw VI and learned NOTHING.

Fact!

How many murders in NYC and they don't close all the bridges?! Sadly, one RICH, POWERFUL WHITE person gets killed and the city is closed, and has wild media coverage. Don't tell me beng RICH, WHITE and POWERFUL doesn't get a different treatment. DENY, DEFEND, DEPOSE.

I have a rather dark sense of humor, and while I can't/won't speak for anyone else... I find it absolutely gut-busting, especially now that other health insurance companies are walking back awful/punitive policies like time limits on anesthesia. The message was apparently received.

I'm astounded that they are (seemingly) surprised as well. You'd think he'd be a walking target and there are so very many trigger-happy people...

Shame the shooter was not keen on presidential hopefuls. Damn shame.

Sorry about what happened to the CEO, condolences to his family but it’s time for CEO’s to stop robbing the poor for their highlife pleasures. We all want to buy million dollar homes. I’m guessing the tax breaks aren’t enough. Stop playing with people’s lives.

So why didn't a CEO of a major corporation not have security? Maybe he didn't pay his copay and was denied coverage?

My mom who was diagnosed with stage 3C/4 ovarian cancer back in May/June had her PT/OT denied by UHC in August/September which delayed starting her chemotherapy that ultimately led to her death on November 20th. I’m alone trying to sort out her affairs after 20 years caregiving gofund.me/2221d470

With the tiny amount of information we already have about this guy, I can confidently say he was a POS.

Yeah, people tend to cheer when a amoral degenerate with blood on his hands checks out

Corporate greed from all large entities is killing the American dream.

As said in one of the Ocean movies “well sure as hell ain’t sad.”

Maybe the concept of companies deciding healthcare is evil.

Godspeed to the copycats

I'm gonna make a bingo card. This is far from over.

Health insurance companies exist solely to make a profit by denying rightfully owed coverage. Medicare for all, now!

My bf: oh, good to know Billionaire Season is open Me: *nearly spits out drink through nose*

Let it be a clear warning to other greedy CEOs who mess with people's lives.

Thoughts and copays

"All the incentives are toward less medical care, because the less care they give them, the more money they make.” -- John D. Ehrlichman, explaining HMOs to Nixon.

Americans think they live in a civilised country, we all know differently.

Better to go after the people who denied the service than the doctors or healthcare workers who were prohibited from providing the care.

Can be done? Wait for the corrupt as shit DOJ to tell their fucking bosses to stop? Yeah. No. Justice was served.

Exactly

We have systems, companies, employers, people in power, that make life miserable for large groups of people, sometimes in the tens of thousands. Our systems lack appropriate corrections because capitalism isn’t about creating jobs, it’s about the few who control the many. It’s unsustainable.

I have a solution. Everyone stop getting health insurance and don’t pay a single hospital bill until the system is fixed. The only way to fix this is by hitting them in the pocketbook.

Reverse HMO Act of 1973 allowing profits to be made off your health. HEALTHCARE WAS A NON-profit business of healing people. Don’t stop talking about it until this law is reversed!!! Healing anyone of anything goes against the bottom line of business profits! Sick people are returning customers 🤔

Hey all - so I’m disillusioned with working for a tech company that essentially helps payers maximize profits. So if you have a job opening and could use someone with 22+ yrs experience in the healthcare industry with masters in both health admin and policy/law - hit me up!!

Well now. I need to redact my previous post. Damn it. lol

There’s something going on. People have had enough. And they’re not going to sit on their asses anymore. It’s going to become bigger (and way more effective) than Occupy Wall Street ever was.

People who support this fucked up system should be slapped across the whole face 🤦🏻‍♂️

Sorry, but the person received a hit, the system is fine and intact.

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I'm not laughing at him. I'm laughing near him. Pro tip: If one doesn't want people to celebrate when they die, maybe don't accumulate a Smaug-like horde of wealth by being a monstrous, vindictive, asshole while they are alive. Just a suggestion.

Anyone using the pharmaceutical arm of UHC, Optum RX, is not surprised in the least bit.

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He may have been an absolutely wonderful person to his family and friends... ...but he was also the head of a company with a 32% denial of claims. A lot of people thrown under the proverbial bus. 🤔 Sorry for his family and friends... ...not for him..

You’re leaving out major contributing factors: Congress and SCOTUS. These are the scumbags who take donations/gifts and then empower the greedy at our expense.

Medicare for all. It's that simple.

He lived by giving people callous death when they had paid for lifesaving treatments. He died a callous death. Live by the sword...

NOW, they might decide that it’s okay to actually provide the health care their clients pay for, because getting a new yacht just isn’t worth getting few bullets in the back and dying on a cold sidewalk

Some people are thinking that the risk of bullets in the back are not worth scamming that extra million dollars from poor people with nothing left to lose 🤷‍♂️

Don't do that. You know damn well there are people on here being extremely sadistic about this on here. I have literally seen people who are glad that his kids are growing up fatherless.

It’s difficult to achieve this level of dysfunction… but America has….

Once during a 24month period my husband and I paid $33,000 in medical bills...while having good insur. This year we paid $9000 for a 4hr heart procedure-he went home same day. One time we were charged $50 for the nurse to place a heating pad on my husband for 20 mins. after Open Heart Surgery.

There's no such thing as an ethical multimillionaire CEO of an American healthcare company. "It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime What better place than here? What better time than now?" ~Rage Against The Machine

VERY well said.

Imagine if it was a black man that was shot in Manhattan instead of a rich, white A$$hole! Sick of seeing this douche bag's face on my computer screen.

I argued with my insurance company for over a year, and in the end, I had to pay them over $20K. Good luck NYPD (but not really).

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Get different health insurance. Simple!

I'll take replies that totally miss the point, and then act like it's a "choice" for $1000

are other companies better? it's the system that is at fault.

Thank you!!! This is nuts!

No. He deserved it. Thr world os better off without him. No CEO deserves to feel safe or even to exist.

A vast majority of folks are not privileged enough to decide where they receive their insurance from

Are there other companies in the US that provide healthcare insurance where profit is not the priority?

His million dollar lifestyle was knowingly built on the suffering and d3aths of his "clients". He was a legal mass murd3rer.

As many have pointed out, most of us get ins through employers, who pick the ins co offering the best "deal". Also, UHC denies ONE THIRD of its customers' claims. That's 2X the industry average of 16%, aka: deliberately structured to screw the insured while taking their money. I have zero sympathy.

I would say insurance company board members and investors celebrating quarterly profits is the same only on a much larger scale. Not going to find much sympathy even among the most kindhearted.

In my heart I feel conflicted, because I cannot condone murder. But crikey, the death of a man who has caused so many deaths seems…just…

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Yes. That’s how poorly they treat humans.

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Also funny the shithead died.