The attack appeared to be targeted, the New York Times reported, citing police. Investigators believe the gunman had been waiting in the area for some time before Thompson’s arrival ahead of an investors meeting, CNN reported.
The shooting happened not long before a scheduled UnitedHealth investor conference in Manhattan, which was cut short at about 9 a.m., roughly an hour after it kicked off as news of the shooting trickled out.
UnitedHealthcare is the largest U.S. health insurer, providing benefits to tens of millions of Americans, who pay more for healthcare than in any other country.
Consumer frustration with the U.S. healthcare system runs high and was the driving force behind the U.S. Affordable Care Act, which created a new type of health insurance and mandated coverage for preventative care as well as maximum profit levels.
A cyberhack early in 2024 by another UnitedHealth company called Change that provided technology for most U.S. providers affected more than one third of Americans, who had their information stolen. Millions of providers experienced disruption in their businesses that lasted months, delaying care for patients and even salaries for healthcare employees.
Reuters trying really hard to not say the thing we are all thinking out loud. I’m not going to say that I wish death on CEOs, but it’s really not hard to imagine why someone might want one of these leeches dead.
There’s really no other answer as they have forgotten the lessons of their forebearers. When the working class can take no more they do not die, they kill. They don’t mean to, they don’t want to, they would rather slowly die than kill, but they kill all the same.
Employers used to be dragged out into the street along with their family and beat to death in front of their family if they failed to provide a fair deal to their employees; even as capital paid for protection in the military or police, that did nothing to stop the workers, as workers are not slaves and are not raised to understand themselves as such.
As capital once again ruins the good will that keeps it alive, this will just happen more and more. It takes one bad day to make a good person decide that suicide is not an adventure for a single person.
I wouldn’t say no other. Rich assholes probably also make a lot of personal enemies. But there have to be many thousands of people with a deadly grudge against someone whose business is all about denying lifesaving coverage to people who dutifully paid the premiums that boosted their bottom lines.
no you misread, corruption need to end any cost. As in, corruption needs to end capitalism, the system by which things cost money. Don’t ask me how that works, i’m just the messenger.
Reuters trying really hard to not say the thing we are all thinking out loud. I’m not going to say that I wish death on CEOs, but it’s really not hard to imagine why someone might want one of these leeches dead.
There’s really no other answer as they have forgotten the lessons of their forebearers. When the working class can take no more they do not die, they kill. They don’t mean to, they don’t want to, they would rather slowly die than kill, but they kill all the same.
Employers used to be dragged out into the street along with their family and beat to death in front of their family if they failed to provide a fair deal to their employees; even as capital paid for protection in the military or police, that did nothing to stop the workers, as workers are not slaves and are not raised to understand themselves as such.
As capital once again ruins the good will that keeps it alive, this will just happen more and more. It takes one bad day to make a good person decide that suicide is not an adventure for a single person.
I wouldn’t say no other. Rich assholes probably also make a lot of personal enemies. But there have to be many thousands of people with a deadly grudge against someone whose business is all about denying lifesaving coverage to people who dutifully paid the premiums that boosted their bottom lines.
At this point, Corruption needs to end any cost
Any cost? Armageddon it is!
no you misread, corruption need to end any cost. As in, corruption needs to end capitalism, the system by which things cost money. Don’t ask me how that works, i’m just the messenger.
Comrades, together we can outbribe the 1%!