UHC CEO Gunned Down in Midtown Manhattan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think it's the wife.

I have not ruled this out either. She was very quick to give a comment to the news reporter who called her, and very quick to say he had received threats.

None of that is in any way incriminating.

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"But fingerprints gathered during the investigation have been a dead end so far, the chief of detectives said. “The print is of no value, meaning that it is unusable for identification. It could be enhanced later on,” Kenny said. Nothing of any “investigative value” was found in Thompson’s room either, Kenny said." Police Chief of Detectives claims fingerprints lead to nothing so far.

[Anonymous]

This is Mideast-related shooter and power move, and he’s back there now laughing his @$$ off at all you myopic, self-centered, fixated insurance hater wannabes.

I know you think you're brilliant writing this, but all it does is show how brainwashed you are after years and years and years of media covering everything from parades to sporting events and telling you over and over again "there are no credible terror threats" because they want it drilled into you there are credible terror threats when there never really are credible threats, but they want you to think like that.

So sadly, you're just Pavlov's dog and you were trained to think up something this preposterous, but I'm sure you'll never grasp that fact.

[Anonymous]

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the photo looked just like Trump surrogate Joey Mannarino

I looked up this person because I wasn't sure what he looked like. No Hostel worker is flirting with that!

+1 He wishes he was that good looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still think it's the wife.

I have not ruled this out either. She was very quick to give a comment to the news reporter who called her, and very quick to say he had received threats.

That was my first thought. I read the breaking news story Thursday morning and it already had a quote from the wife! That set off a red flag for me immediately. Finding out later that they were separated… hm, hm hmmm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone reading about connections to Russian hacking mafia?
Post-congressional testimony
Russian professional hit job

The Russians use poison. Or people fall from windows.

This isn’t Russian.

Hon, NYC has Russian mob and if they wanted someone familiar with NYC, they could call on a local. Pretty sure they'll use a gun here and there, not just Polonium and windows.

[Anonymous]

New CEO Andrew Witt:

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and to "tune out the critical noise"

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1865198371767562453

[Anonymous]

^Correction: Andrew WittY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You might read this (reddit doctors posting outrageous insurance denials)
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1h8f5yo/assassinated_by_insurance/

Around 40 pages back I wrote about our fight to force the insurance company to honor their written coverage. We got a lawyer and fought it. We could have simply paid up and avoided a years-long fight, but we fought on principle.

Every so often America confronts and forces a change in corporate behavior. The Thompson shooting may well be the rallying catalyst that forces the medical industry to clean up its act. Their greed has reached a level of malevolence that is not acceptable. BC/BS this past week decided not to push through with limiting coverage on anesthesia. Please think about this.

Surgeries might take longer than expected with complications. BC/BS thinks it's acceptable to have some accounting weenie call the shots on how long a surgery should take, and not one second longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New CEO Andrew Witt:

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and to "tune out the critical noise"

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1865198371767562453

And this is exactly why people are rooting for Thompsan's shooter to get away with it.

[Anonymous]

That was Aetna.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m amazed at the number of people who think health insurance is the main problem, as if the hospitals just honest businessmen submitting bills for their services and the docs as well. The whole system is a sh&t show. Cardiologist in the US make like a half a million, in the Uk it’s like £150K.

People should be mad at their legislators for allowing it to get this way. This is not to say that insurers don’t have their problems but they are but one cog in the wheel of grift and dysfunction.

Cardiologists actually provide an extremely valuable service. Insurance companies suck money out of the system. Do you really not see the difference?

In many cases they keep the system from ripping people off and in many cases make sure that people don’t get the wrong med or unnecessary procedures. I know you think your doctor is the bees knees and would never do anything unethical or wrong but you would be wrong. Consider the fact that so many physician groups have sold out to PE who are managing care by the way in which they manage the practice. The docs didn’t sell because they are concerned about the good of the patients - they wanted a paycheck. There are no innocents in this game.

Yep. Private equity is all over specialized surgical and medical groups …. these doctors are money machines. Cha Ching! $$ Smart doctors know how to game the system. Spend 15 minutes with a patient, quick exam, order scans. Done. Next!

Even large hospital groups order needless scans, ultrasounds, blood work, procedures, unnecessary surgeries…it’s insane.

Yes—I’m generally pro doctor but anyone who thinks that doctors don’t need checks on spending is naive. The nursing homes are notorious for ordering useless tests and therapies to pad their profits. And lots of doctors will just write whatever test or script their patient wants because it’s easier than arguing or because they are making a profit (remember the opioid epidemic?). Everyone would like to have great doctors who only prescribe medically necessary stuff and only do so in their best interest, and have affordable health care that covers all medically necessary treatments, even if those treatments cost millions of dollars a year for a single condition. But it’s not reality. Yes, let’s crack down on the bad actors, but this generalized hate for health insurance providers is just so naive and dangerous. Does anyone remember the world before health insurance? Working class people just died if they got anything that needed more than a doctors visit. Pooling of risk is a good thing—that’s what insurance is. But insurance companies have to follow their written policies.

There are monsters at every level of the system. This hospital allowed this doctor to misdiagnose and kill patients because he made money for them.

The opioid epidemic is due in part to physicians being courted by pharma sales people and the fact that no one was watching what was going on so the pill mills were allowed to dispense like crazy and Medicaid just paid. I’m not saying health insurance companies are angels by any means but there are plenty of bad actors out there.


https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology

That is a horrifying story.

[Anonymous]

Who didn’t want Thompson to testify? That’s who paid for this boy toy’s real life video game shooting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New CEO Andrew Witt:

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and to "tune out the critical noise"

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1865198371767562453

And this is exactly why people are rooting for Thompsan's shooter to get away with it.

I’m not. I don’t want to pay for your IVF or expensive birth control, but Pelosi and Co. force me to.

Expensive birth control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New CEO Andrew Witt:

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and to "tune out the critical noise"

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1865198371767562453

And this is exactly why people are rooting for Thompsan's shooter to get away with it.

I’m not. I don’t want to pay for your IVF or expensive birth control, but Pelosi and Co. force me to.

Expensive birth control?

The PP has also never heard of insurance premiums, either.