Murdoch Outlets and Bezos’ WaPo Demand More Sympathy for Health Insurance Execs
Many news outlets’ pontificators were incensed that anyone would voice frustration with health insurance when an industry CEO has fallen.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23136365
Brian Robert Thompson murdered 51,000 innocent human beings.
Please cite a source. It's gotta be much higher than that.
It is a reasonable first order estimate. See a comment here. I think I will organize this a bit better and make a blog post on this tomorrow. But suffice to say, 51,000 is a good baseline number, based on UHC's share of the private insurance market and the length of Thompson's tenure as CEO of UHC. It could be as high as 100,000. But really, at this scale, it ceases to matter. You can only really comprehend it in comparative terms. And his number of victims was order of magnitude greater than that of Osama Bin Ladin.
I'm no math wizard but I've read 68k people die per year from preventable shit due to denied claims. Brian worked at United since 2004, CEO since 2021 so he contributed directly or indirectly to that number of deaths per year, at least the portion United is responsible for. United has double the industry average of rejected claims.
It's def higher than OP states.
Not OP, but it's going to be really hard to assign a hard value to that. There are plenty of obvious examples where they denied a life-saving treatment. But many of them would've died anyway.
Then there are cases where they deny preventative/early treatments. Some of these eventually led to more serious and fatal conditions, some did not. How do we count these?
Then there's quality of life denials. These don't directly lead to fatal conditions, but can affect morale and the like, thus allowing more serious conditions?
All of it would be compared to the unexplored alternatives (where treatment was authorized). This is inherently an unknown.
I'm not defending him by any means. It's just that his body count is, at best, a rough estimate.
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Oh, sorry, looks like it's been denied.
Demanding sympathy is the height of pity.
Pathetic. Maybe figure out why no one has any sympathy for the guy.
"I demand you respect me!" said the person who is fundamentally undeserving of respect
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I will not show them the single touch of sympathy or pity or anything. Why should I? People like that would not only never show me the slightest sympathy, but they would also go out of their way in order to fuck me over and waste my time and money and then act like any reaction other than cock sucking them is criminal violence.
Message control.
This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.
it's happening on here too. I've had numerous people argue that his death changed nothing.
bots must be cheap.
People you fucked over don't sympathize with you?
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Thank you for needing the working class to exist. We have received and reviewed your request for sympathy towards your continued indifference to human suffering. Unfortunately we must reject your claim…
All we could do for pity is to throw a fire extinguisher into his grave. Where he is, he will need it.
Sorry, fire extinguishers are wasted on dragons.
We should offer to help them stand with him in solidarity, so to speak
You guys aren’t reacting to the way we want you to react!! Stop it now!
The persecution complex is going to get even more people killed as CEOs grow more paranoid and bodyguards more trigger happy.
Those trigger happy body guards might not be pointing their weapons in the direction these CEOs think
Thoughts and prayers :
Sure, just as soon as they meet our demands for better compensation.
Fuck the American oligarchy!
That costs money.
Also: no.
Sympathy? Hmm . . . let's see . . . sympathy . . ok. I'm sorry he didn't contract a really ferocious strain of ass-cancer that his insurance didn't cover.
#No
Why would I have sympathy for a mass murderer? The man is burning in the Pit of Hell right now.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - An Accounting of the Victims of Brian Robert Thompson.
I'm so tired of seeing this ugly bastard.
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the worst music ever at the highest volume possible starts playing
No, I hope he burns in Hell.
Who didn't expect them to pick that side?
i don't cover that - sorry!
My sympathy deductible hasn't been reached, darn!
Aww diddums. There there.
Feeling better now?
No.
In other words, it’s fine to defend vigilantes when they kill unarmed Black people or anti-racist activists, but when a CEO’s life is taken, we must solemnly stay silent on the reasons why such a person might be targeted or why bystanders might not be crying.
unfortunately being an asshole is a pre-existing condition and as such cannot be covered at this time.
On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/
Brian Thompson was a 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs and applied the same standard of justice to Thompson as they apply to the poors.
He's dead because the kleptocracy felating justice system didnt do its job. They should turn themselves in if they want justice. If Luigi is guilty then so are they.