I’ll admit I’m struggling to express my feelings about seeing this news.
On one hand, no one should be assassinated on the street.
OTOH, why isn’t there this much outrage and attention when a health insurance CEO kills someone by denying coverage for lifesaving care? Given UH’s reputation, this guy had a LOT of that kind of blood on his hands.
Similar. I struggle to find a non-ghoulish comment, so stay silent. Insurance is the bane of my existence.
WTF?
Did I say it’s worse than you know? Because it is worse than you know.
I heard about this earlier and I keep thinking of Grosse Pointe Blank. The opening scene, and then later when Martin Blank says, “What have you done, Bart?” And Bart looks at his dossier, and wonders why his employer wants to kill him over a leaky sunroof.
I mean in russia it’s windows and in the US it’s “lone gunmen” but considering how many people in the US have died or gone bankrupt because of this fucker’s industry I struggle to find compassion for him beyond that which I’d have for any common criminal or corrupt politician… It’s a similar feeling I think. Like, damn, at least you got away with it for your whole life!
When I look at it, frankly, the oil industry has less direct blood on its hands and arguably does more common good despite climate change and lead gasoline.
Only because the US’s insurance industry is a literal economic parasite that consumes human lives and converts them directly into shareholder value at fractional rates that don’t even rival CPU manufacturing.
Literally sacrificing human lives at less than a 1:1 ratio to keep some zombie stocks inflated in etfs.
“Why does everybody always think it’s personal?”
Still struggling, but getting weaker by the moment…
Yup, just like that.
The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” appeared on shell casings recovered from the scene of the shooting in New York City, according to law enforcement officials. The officials said they are examining whether the words relate to a possible motive involving insurance companies and their responses to claims.
Gee, do you think?
ETA: To state the bloody obvious, besides the widespread hatred for health insurance companies the shooting has brought into the open, there’s also the strong subtext that in an unjust lawless society, bloody personal vengeance is completely justified as it is the only justice one is likely to see.
Some of the early reports on this murder made it seem like it could have been a professional contract killing like something out of a movie, but the latest details coming out make that look increasingly unlikely. (Suspect left behind a lot of evidence including a water bottle, candy wrapper and possibly a phone.) I guess we don’t live in the John Wick universe, which is a good thing.
There’s laser therapy, and there’s proton beam therapy, but is “proton laser therapy” even a thing?
It’s scary sounding technobabble to make it sound like they are protecting the kid. They are assholes from the jump. They cannot help themselves. Nor anyone else, of course.
No doubt the execs have no knowledge of medical practices whatsoever.
That said, wouldn’t a proton laser be a paser?
I didn’t think it was supposed to be a template.
