He looks very happy. Jovial.
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I wonder if one of the guy’s goals is to keep this story in the headlines. Keep stoking the rage people feel towards health insurance companies and the conversation about how broken the US system is going.
If so, this bread crumb trail is working. Monopoly money will generate speculation for days.
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I saw one good idea, just speculation though, we’ll probably never know: It was the amount of a denied treatment.
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MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money
Ha, that’s perfect! After the shell etching too, I think this dude might have more such messages that will keep stoking the Folk Hero fires.
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Oh… poor Raygun… /s
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They’re saying they know who Robin Hoodie is.
Suspect identified in UnitedHealth executive’s murder, New York Post reports
Mayor Adams says they know who he is, but they won’t release his name yet.
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Here’s the thing about the media and politicians harping on people’s insensitivity regarding the UHC murder. Mr. Johnson was a “family man” etc.
I do know he and his fellow C-Suite types had been “very upset by” a patient I was seeing going to the press with recordings of internal phone calls of UHC employees laughing with glee at their denials of his life-saving medications. These recordings were obtained via legal discovery.
The people on the calls, in charge of Chris’s appeal, were able to get the denials by ignoring and burying one MD’s review stating Chris needed the treatment and sending it to another who said he didn’t. This MD admitted, under oath, he never reviewed the file. He just signed off on what one of the people on those phone calls had sent him.
When I tweeted about them laughing I called this sociopathic behavior. I had around 4000 followers I think and this was pre-Musk so the algorithm still kinda worked. And this also “upset several very important people.”
I get the articles were bad press, and corporations hate bad press. But I also think the C-suite executives at UHC were legitimately pissed at the insinuation these behaviors were sociopathic.
I don’t think they gave a shit about the 2 employees on the calls, who ultimately left UHC. Rather I think they engaged in similar behavior in their investor meetings, just at scale. Laughing about the collective denials, how their systems worked to maximize profits to the tune of $200 billion, etc. So much laughing at the suffering their company inflicted. To call that anything other than brilliant leadership? The audacity. We are “very important people.”
Studies suggest around 40% of CEOs meet the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder - aka sociopaths. APD falls in the same category of the DSM-5 as narcissistic personality disorder so there’s some fundamental overlap.
APD really cannot be treated. Neither can NPD, because there is usually a fundamental lack of insight and therapy becomes a stage for them to discuss with righteous indignation how others have wronged them. Like when people call their company out on a culture of horrific behavior. With receipts.
But please, media, go on about what a good person he was.
Edit: as to not seem ableist AF, I’m not diagnosing anyone with anything. I’m not attributing UHC’s evil to mental illness. I’m certainly not the only person using “sociopathic” to discuss these behaviors. Because they are. By definition.
Listen to the recorded phone calls here:
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An interesting essay crossed my Skyline today, comparing the public reaction to the insurance executive’s death to the reaction of Ebenezer Scrooge’s passing in a Christmas Carol:
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Sadly, I haven’t seen anyone post this, so I will:
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Exactly!
And now that the essayist mentioned it, I see the parallels. 
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This is a really good thing, although there will be families who won’t have a happy ending, still:
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that is a particularly good essay from A.R. Moxon. i find his style of writing engaging, yet simply phrased. his use of repetition, saying the same thing in subtly different ways, to be informative in that it gives me a better way to express the complicated issues he discusses in this way with people in my own community.
this essay was a very good example - using the revulsion of murder in two distinctly different cases - to show up the hard fact that “murder” is viewed in opposite ways, based on one’s privilege.
i thank @womanhood_deferred for turning me on to Mr. Moxon’s substack. i have gone on to subscribe there,as well as purchasing his book Very Fine People, which may be dated now (it deals with tRump first abomination of a term), but remains prescient as we go into tRump 2.0.
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