re: UNH's UnitedHealth CEO shot and killed

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Or maybe they personally know someone whose death was directly attributable to the warped priorities in our healthcare system.

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So, the answer is murder?

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Our current bloated healthcare system has neither price transparency nor a focus on healthcare as a public good. It simply incentivizes graft, corruption, and poor health outcomes.

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I don't disagree with any of that.

It appears the assassin had some surveillance assistance. How did the perp know when to show up
on site to carry out the crime after just leaving a nearby Starbucks?
Who was the perp communicating with on a cell phone just minutes prior to the shooting?
It seems there's more going on here than insurance claim denial and a disgruntled psychopath.

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Some of you people just refuse to grasp that the job of a ceo of *any* company is to improve its finances. This is a basic rule.

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... while achieving its goals and directives.

For example, United Healthcare pushes hard to get older vets to sign up for UHC medicare supplements.

Why?

Because their demos show vets often seek care at a VA. Meanwhile, UHC successfully lobbied HHS to prevent the VA from billing private healthcare. So they lure typically moderate/low income vets into an insurance plan which they know in advance many will never use.

Here's another ...
They sign contracts with hospitals and physicians to reimburse a certain amount for a certain service, then try to pay a fraction of that agreed amount. If their foist is recognized (and sometimes it isn't) and if the medical bill is re-submitted to them, remittance inevitably comes as a fraction of the residual UHC still owes. It's stuff which can take months of wrangling until finally the remainder owed is small enough to make its pursuit unprofitable.

That's the genteel version.
Sans politesse, here is the perspective you've missed.

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They are just going to keep on being shitty and hire bodyguards for the next CEO

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Truest statement i have read so far in this thread .

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Some of you people just refuse to grasp that the job of a ceo of *any* company is to improve its finances. This is a basic rule.

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Read the last part of the last sentence in that quote you posted and ask yourself if insurance companies do this.

The mega corps routinely flout the spirit, if not the letter of the law, pay the fine, if even punished and continue on as nothing happened.

I'm as guilty as anyone else, I'm sure I have shares of UHG in one of my funds.

Blindly cheerleading for companies like this is just willful ignorance in my opinion. Things have shifted so far in their favor, there is absolutely zero legal recourse to turn the tide. Therefore, things like this happen.

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How did the perp know when to show up

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Witnesses say he hung around the building for hours prior to the murder.

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Who was the perp communicating with on a cell phone just minutes prior to the shooting?

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Could be using it as cover and not really on a call? If I was on a call, I would have used AirPods to keep my hands clear

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It seems there's more going on here than insurance claim denial and a disgruntled psychopath.

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I certainly agree this guy was motivated by something greater than an individual motive. This was cold and calculated, most “aggrieved” murderers are far more impulsive

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Look at BlackRock, Vanguard, and StateStreet positions in UNH, as well as some of the Sr members of the Senate for your answer

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I highly doubt they had anything to do with this.

It was most likely a consumer with a vengeance.

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It was most likely a consumer with a vengeance.

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insider job carried out by his partners in crime. Made to look like a disgruntled policyholder whose family member was denied care

That's not even it. Those companies being the largest shareholders have enough pull to get him replaced if they really wanted to. To think they'd risk offing him on a public street in NYC is just kind of silly.