Summary
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty criticized public outrage over the health insurance industry following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.
In a leaked video to staff, Witty dismissed criticism as “misinformation” and urged employees not to engage with media.
Thompson’s murder outside a Manhattan hotel has intensified scrutiny of the industry’s practices, with bullet casings found at the scene bearing phrases linked to insurance claim denial tactics.
The killing has sparked debate on UnitedHealthcare’s history of denying claims, while the shooter remains at large.
Witty faces unrelated DOJ insider trading allegations.
It’s really crazy what capitalism and a few bucks can do to people.
Someone dox him and make his life hell. He’s already old, he’ll get so damn cranky quick.
Obviously “a few bucks” in this case means millions, of course.
Their only concern is their fealty to the bottom line. We are only the sheep to be shorn for it. Sheep aren’t supposed to fight back.
The only way anything is going to happen is if the sheep do precisely that. Become ungovernable.
if you don’t like the reflection, don’t blame the mirror.
Oh I like this one.
That guy can smoke a turd in hell for all i care.
Assassination?
Let’s not put this man on a fucking pedestal here.
Please let’s do. Change isn’t always bloodless.
I am referring to the CEO.
He’s not important.
This is a murder, not an assassination.
He doesn’t get it. They don’t get it. https://www.makestickers.com/design/24120721P6VV-pij1gytwuonpuv2ibielr6lk
“Industry”
Industries are things that produce a product, the insurance providers are just the middle men that jack up the price.
“Let them eat cake.”
I understand the reference. But in this case my immediate thought was “yeah, urinal cake!”
Poor guy.
I wonder how much this shitbird spent on private security immediately after recording this.
Zero. He took care of that well before. That type take care of themselves well before even thinking of others, if they do.
He been had it. It’s others who work with these people who say it was mindboggling that Thompson didn’t have it for himself.
Next.
Boo you whore.
For a non-American, his “industry” is one of the few deterrents to those considering moving to the United States (with guns and MAGA cultists)
I wish I had an in somewhere else in the developed world.
Add our sociopathic work culture to the list.
As someone who worked with a lot of Americans, I came to believe that some of the sociopathic work culture was due, in part at least, to the tying of medical coverage to work itself.
I saw so many peers at the stage of burnout, having to jump from one job to another without so much as a break, because their healthcare and their family’s healthcare depended on it.
It struck me that in many cases many Americans were, at least in some sense, enslaved.
If I stop working and I break my leg playing out in the snow - there’s no risk to my financial future and so I can, if needed, rest (either to recover from said injury or to recover from the mental anguish of burnout or other.)
Many of my peers did not have that luxury.
I think that it goes a lot deeper than that. In the 90s I worked on a joint base shared with Americans and made a lot of American friends. They were shocked and sarcastic about the benefits that we had (Australians) that they did not have. Things such as long service leave (12 weeks paid leave after 10 years service) and even our four weeks annual leave. The shocked but I can understand, but the sarcasm I don’t get? It was as if our refusal to expend ourselves to the grind diminished us as a culture ?
That was 35 years ago, and our conditions have degraded accordingly. But I remember the American sentiment of the times well.
I’ve heard that sarcasm all my life, it’s intertwined in our culture, that if you’re not working above and beyond then you’re lazy and deserve to be poor. That’s how I found myself in my 20s working 84 hour weeks as the norm, and while doing better than average, I’d no longer recommend the lifestyle.
It’s definitely true, and it’s by design.
I’m for one hoping they never catch The Adjuster.
ahaha that’s great
What a fucking plonker
