UHC CEO Gunned Down in Midtown Manhattan
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AP: It’s something Will Flanary, a Portland-based ophthalmologist and comedian with a large social media following, saw online a lot in the shooting’s immediate aftermath and found very telling.
“It’s zero sympathy,” he said. “And the lesson to take away from that is not, ‘Let’s shame people for celebrating a murder.’ No, it’s: ‘Look at the amount of anger that people have toward this system that’s taken advantage of people and do something to try to fix that.’” Flanary’s content, published under the name Dr. Glaucomflecken, started out as niche eye doctor jokes and a way to cope with his own experiences with two cancer diagnoses and a sudden cardiac arrest. But it has evolved, featuring character skits that call attention to and satirize the decisions of large health insurers, including UnitedHealthcare. He said he’s never seen conversations around health insurance policy take off the way they did this week — and he hopes these new voices can help bring about change. “I’m always talking about how powerful social media can be with advocacy,” he said, “because it really is the only way to put a significant amount of pressure on these corporations who are doing bad things for patients.” I saw dr. Flanary/Glaucomflenken in person some months ago. He brought up some particular video he'd done that embarrassed one of the big insurance companies--it might have been UHC but can't remember for sure, it was not one of the Blues. They reversed something they were doing, and he was big about people making noise. I'm a bit surprised the AP article doesn't quote him saying something about not using murder to get social media to pay attention. |
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It’s impossible to “move to Japan”. You’d have to cycle out to South Korea every time before your tourist entry visa ended. They run a tight ship. Even study abroad visas last 12 mos and are very tedious to obtain if not with a long progrm |
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Yes he would. The evidence is insurmountable at this point. It isn’t a jurors job to decide if the crime was ethically justified. Their job is to analyze if there is enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for the crime they are charged with |
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To be honest, he sounds paranoid schizophrenic. Having the gun and showing the same ID make sense. Schizophrenics don’t think like normal people |
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| What is known about his spine injury? |
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Jesus. I had back surgery recently and have the same books. It could have been me... |
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Agree. Sometimes a traumatic event can bring on schizophrenia or other types of severe mental illnesses. It could have been something medical for him like the spinal surgery or something else entirely: losing a job, losing a lot of money, terrible break up |
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Really? |
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Yep. He sounded so normal when he gave his Gilman school valedictorian speech! |
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He'd be around the age for common onset. |
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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-death-investigation-12-9-24/index.html
Some of his manifesto stated “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done,” |
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It's the New York Post. They write for their audience. |
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Mental health breaks can happen at any time. It's like a cancer many do not see coming. |