Summary
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has ignited outrage over the state of U.S. healthcare.
While his murder shocked many, online reactions highlighted public frustration with private insurers, citing denied care, high costs, and systemic bureaucracy.
UnitedHealthcare, a major industry player, has faced scrutiny for practices perceived as prioritizing profit over patients.
The attack, which appears premeditated, underscores rising tensions around healthcare inequality.
Experts see this as part of a broader trend toward violence over societal disputes, reflecting deep dissatisfaction with the American healthcare system.
Okay I was trying to do a “citation needed” joke but superscripts don’t seem to work.
WHo was “shocked” by this?
Mostly other CEOs and a lot of the media.
Maybe you shouldn’t have an accountant in charge of a “healthcare” company.
I’m sorry for the multiple comments. I have a lot of background and trauma related to dealing with health insurance companies. They are parasites sucking out the blood of those who can least afford it and ruining their lives when they can’t pay the bills left over after they deny claims.
Parasites at least play an important role in their ecosystems. I have no (or too many) words to describe my hatred for people like this that commit social murder all the time.
Healthcare companies should only be allowed to operate under non-profit rules.
There should be no incentive for profit on people’s health.
And forced to publicly report every thousandth of a cent. And their current administrators charged with crimes against humanity. L
Why do you hate America?
I don’t hate America any country. I hate some of what the people in power do to exploit others. The country it happens in is irrelevant.
I think the thing I hate most is “rampant capitalism” capitalism should be domesticated.
i was being sarcastic, i agree with your comment.
You probably needed a /s
I hate using it… it kills the tone :/
This isn’t reddit. Its not an issue to segment comments logicly
And the thing is, the “trade” they inflict is just so amazingly unreasonable. The incredible misery they cause, replicated over so many people, and for truly no greater purpose than keeping up with the perverse status symbol competition amongst their hideous peers. Absolutely wild, unhinged, clearly malignant behavior.
I like this headline because for once the “sparks outrage” cliche has some real meaning to it.
People have been mad about healthcare for ages. But it hasn’t lit up, it’s just sort of passively lingering like a gas leak. All it took was one snap to light the flames.
Anyway, I don’t condone violence but this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The rotten egg smell is everywhere and we’ve tried calling the gas department for decades and no one has come to help. If there are further victims of violence, the majority of the blood will be on the hands of the oppressive class who failed to protect themselves by treating their subordinates as human.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -JF damn K
> Don’t vote in local elections
> Don’t vote in county elections
> Don’t vote in state elections
> Don’t vote in federal elections
> Maybe votes in presidential election
> If vote is cast in election, it’s for own interest or for the rich, not for the common good
> “Why isn’t America getting better chat?”
THE Adjustor is a better politicians since he actually brings people together. Never seen left and right this united.
Current regime whores are just that.
Stop pretending like voting matters, it has been clearly shown it doesn’t…
Headline scared me. Can’t do the alien bounty hunter dirty like that.
Outrage? Bruh its sparking blackfriday sales on https://www.omahaoutdoors.com
Sympathy out of network
Disgusting narrative. The violence in this story was mostly committed by the CEO. Its his violence that we must be talking about
Experts see this as part of a broader trend toward violence over societal disputes, reflecting
deep dissatisfaction withanger at the blatant corruption of the American healthcare system.FTFY
That belies the shock also generated by the brutality of Thompson’s death.
It wasn’t brutal. He died with no fear and very quickly. That’s a lot better than many of the patients his company denied coverage for can say.
People aren’t shocked by his death. We’re at the very least unsympathetic. And many of us are positively giddy.
The news anchors / article writer had to say that because otherwise they get fired.
And, by nature of the corrupt system, lose their health insurance
UnitedHealthcare, a major industry player, has faced scrutiny for practices perceived as prioritizing profit over patients.
Perceived? Of course they prioritize profit over patients. They, along with every other capitalist firm, must prioritize profit over every other consideration. Everything is secondary to maximum, ever increasing profits.
Parasite apologists are also gencoide apologists…
Regime whores reporting for duty 🙄
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I’m not noticing much follow up action. I’d like to be proud of you people for once, show the world you aren’t COMPLETELY incapable of citizen led change. If you want to be free the establishment needs to change, not just billionaires sharing a TINY bit more, hoping that’s enough to not be shot.
Wait, let’s see… I have to spend hundreds of dollars a month so when I get sick or injured, I have to pay hundreds of dollars upfront to meet a requirement to still pay a large portion of the bill. All so some mediocre guy with excessive wealth can buy another yacht. My health is a commodity to them. And I’m supposed to give ANY fucks when it all goes wrong for them? Did that dude spare even a moment to think about the people choosing a slow agonizing death to spare their family a life of medical debt? This man ran a racket that paid for his vacations with people’s lives, and now it’s come back to bite him (to death). I ain’t mad.
There is no other way this ends. The corpos are so moneyblind that they don’t see it.
corpos are just people and now these people have something to be scared of
While his murder shocked many
His murder shocked literally nobody.
It shocked people like him
We’re still waiting on his word as to how shocked he was at the time.
The shocking thing is it doesn’t happen more often tbh.
It’s like that scene in Fight Club that discusses the homework of starting a fight. It’s difficult because the majority of people, are not wired that way. And that is a good thing.
Owners have sociopathic CEO class, the peasant class now has the adjustors?
Maybe the would-be school shooters will see this response online and find a healthier outlet for their angst.
