Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO
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“When other’s human lives are deemed worthless, it is not surprising to have others view your life of no value as well,” wrote one medical doctor, whose identity the Daily Beast confirmed.

Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6585·
    22 days ago

    It’s kinda hilarious watching billionaire owned media try to suppress the fact that absolutely no one feels bad for the CEO. The same thing happened when some billionaires decided to visit the Titanic, and after the Trump assassination attempt. The memes afterwards were top notch

    Everyone is so fed up with this country and the shit is this close 🤏🏼 to the fan

    • audaxdreik@pawb.social
      3062·
      23 days ago

      I’m still absolutely flabbergasted at how quickly we all moved on from Trump literally getting clipped in an attempt on his life.

      They tried to muster some outrage and solidarity, but most of us just shrugged and went, “Damn. Oh well, maybe next time.”

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        708·
        22 days ago

        He didnt get clipped. He cut his hand on glass, on the ground, and didnt realize it, then transfered the blood to his head. Thats why his ear was miraculously fully recovered like a week later when he was caught on camera without bandages.

        • Hellinabucket@lemmy.worldEnglish
          403·
          22 days ago

          No, it was just his superior genetics that allowed him to heal quicker than a normal person would.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            724·
            22 days ago

            nothing besides the picture of him with blood on the side of his head with no visible injury, and another one with a bandage off a little after a week after the shooting with not a single sign of injury (ears dont heal that fast), and the fact that he absolutely refused to let anyone see his wound or the medical records.

            Trump is an opportunistic aggrandizemer.

            If he legitimately got even the slightest injury, he would have been ripping the bandage off 15 times a day and pointing at it and screaming about what the “evil woke liberal mob” did to him. And he didnt.

            he barely acknowledge it at all after a few days. Does that sound like the Trump you know? The trump that ruminates and obsesses for years, even decades over perceived and imagined slights? That constantly comments on them, regardless of relevance to the topic at hand?

            • PunnyName@lemmy.world
              242·
              22 days ago

              My guess is that a piece of teleprompter glass grazed an old man’s ear. Ears are known to be bloody, moreso on older people. But there’s no way in fucking hell he actually took a bullet, he wouldn’t even have that ear.

              So yeah, your assessment fits.

              • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
                16·
                22 days ago

                Yeah, I figured it was from a dozen burly secret service guys wrestling a 78 year old man to the ground.

        • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
          3·
          21 days ago

          Funny I always thought he was juicing like they do in professional wrestling, they cut themselves just a little bit to make it look like they’re injured.

        • NostraDavid@programming.dev
          17·
          22 days ago

          Weird, since I didn’t see blood on his hands (especially his right hand).

          Are we really starting conspiracy theories that are already going the direction of “yeah, but was it really an assassination attempt???”

          I don’t have any love for the guy, but holy shit, I don’t need Lemmy starting conspiracy theories. Back to reddit if you do.

        • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
          16·
          22 days ago

          Gotta admit in hindsight, that was funny as hell.

          He got to pose for like a week like a badass and then quietly remove the ear bandaid.

        • audaxdreik@pawb.social
          5·
          22 days ago

          You know I’m honestly not sure. Mostly good I think?

          Sidestepping the issue entirely of the act itself - strictly speaking more about the news cycle around it. I don’t know that it needed much more extensive, exhausting coverage. Just given the nature of the news currently, you gotta admit, surprising right? I’m not even trying to imply any sort of conspiracy about why it wasn’t more popular. I’m just saying, I think news cycle would’ve latched on harder if they could have, but the public gagged and said no thanks, we’re simply not interested, causing them to shift focus.

      • Freefall@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        IIRC, the final verdict was that he smashed his ear on an agents holster. It wasn’t a bullet or shards of teleprompter glass.

    • piskertariot@lemmy.world
      69·
      23 days ago

      Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

      When they can’t, they’ll own the government, and outlaw it.

      It’s like poetry.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
      671·
      22 days ago

      Its also hilarious that lemmy.world admins/mods did the same thing with early threads about this yesterday, nuking individual comments celebrating Thompson’s death and 24 hr instance wide banning the users that made those comments, then within 2 hrs they undid the bans, and by today seem to have just given up trying.

      https://lemmy.zip/post/27427367

      • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
        22·
        22 days ago

        I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday. It’s not like the more outspoken people were in the minority in their feelings.

        Even the most vile MAGAs have probably been screwed over by insurance companies, or at the very least had to spend valuable hours of their life fighting for something they should have already had.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          22 days ago

          I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday.

          Nobody Saw Nothin’ Day.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10·
          22 days ago

          I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday.

          Brought to you by my being awake when I don’t want to be:

          Remember, remember!
The fourth of December,
A U-H-C CEO shot;
I know of no reason
Why the U-H-C season
Should ever be forgot!
        • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          I’m only seeing one upvote and one downvote lol

          I think people are having a hard time deciding whether to celebrate your comment or not

      • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
        1019·
        22 days ago

        Taking a look at the recent modlog, as well as other comments around here, it looks like they’re trying to find the right balance for what’s okay and what has crossed the line.

        There are an alarming number of comments that are actively encouraging murder and the amount of upvotes that even the worst of those comments receive is sickening.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          29·
          22 days ago

          Something something “kill the billionaires… in minecraft” /s

          There are an alarming number of comments that are actively encouraging murder and the amount of upvotes that even the worst of those comments receive is sickening.

          Can you really blame people, though? The poor and middle class been screwed and driven against each other by ultra-rich assholes for decades. Murder might not be the most ethical solution from a moral purist standpoint, but at least it has people talking and agreeing about the underlying problem.

        • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
          7·
          22 days ago

          For some people in might be self defence, who knows who has a treatable illness they were denied coverage for.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      22 days ago

      The US mocked Trump for being shot at, then failed to keep him from being elected again.

      Pretty good sign that people are not going to direct that anger towards actually fixing the problems.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        353·
        22 days ago

        My empathy for America was lost decades ago when literal children were gunned down in Sandy Hook.

        We didn’t collectively mourn as a nation and do anything. Instead, some went to defend guns. Others went to blame the victims, the parents who are literally holding their lifeless child in their hands.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      47·
      22 days ago

      Lol, I appreciate that final line in your comment. So many of us were that close back in 2020… Now things are slated to be worse, and I think I speak for at least millions of Americans when I say we are just fucking over it.

      When we’ve tossed out any semblance of justice in our country at the highest levels, literally ruling that the president is immune from all prosecution (you know, like a fucking king), then asshole corpos that indirectly murder countless people getting gunned down doesn’t exactly concern us. In fact, this sort of thing genuinely seems more just than what our highest courts are allowing.

      Shit is fucked up in this country, and I don’t think many of us want to pretend otherwise any longer. I’m not advocating violence, but I definitely don’t think I’ll lose sleep over this situation.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
        37·
        22 days ago

        Royalty has forgotten that laws are the peaceful alternative to the guillotine. If you stop enforcing laws that protect the peasants what do you think is going to happen?

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        6·
        21 days ago

        I’ll quote something that I heard from someone earlier today. “I don’t advocate violence, but I also can’t pretend that justice was not served.”

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      22 days ago

      I think the only thing stopping people from posting even worse inflammatory shit about it is not wanting to show up on an FBI watchlist or something later on.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          It’s not worth it. No matter how hot the meme would be. Let it sizzle in your mind meatball. Drinking in the basement and playing Factorio is more important

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Let us take a moment to consider how long the list has grown these past few days.

        Maybe just keep track of who isn’t on the list instead?

    • Farid@startrek.website
      201·
      22 days ago

      I think it makes more sense to use the 🤏 emoji in that context, rather than the Italian gesture.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      23 days ago

      r/all is covered with positive press for the shooting. Anything getting removed would have to be pretty egregious.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
      11·
      21 days ago

      I disagree. I think it just hit it. Think about how shooters crave noteriaty. Think of how this assain is seen as a hero. No. This is just the beginning.

      I think too many people saw this as a kind of justice that the courts have never and will never provide.

      I don’t advocate violence. I also don’t think this has a different outcome.

      • john89@lemmy.ca
        4·
        21 days ago

        I actually agree (with you.) This could be the start of a movement.

        Hopefully this hero is protected and makes a clean escape. The response from law enforcement is disproportionate because it was a rich person that died instead of someone like us.

        Remember, they wouldn’t bat an eye if any of us were killed in this manner. It happens all the time and goes unsolved all the time because law enforcement primarily exists to protect rich people.

        • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
          2·
          21 days ago

          I’m anxious for what happens next. If this spirals, we’re about to start living in some “interesting times”.

    • inv3r510n@lemmy.world
      51·
      21 days ago

      Nah dude, this shit finally hit the fan. Just wait. Terrorism works. Look at what bin Laden did to this country - is it not obvious to everyone alive before and after that he won? He wanted to destroy America and he did. What this was is an act of terrorism, and it’s going to work. Corrupt leaders all over the spectrum are getting nervous. Americans are armed to the teeth and pissed. It only takes a couple of lone wolves with intelligence and gun skills to do some major damage. And who doesn’t wanna be famous these days? I mean who doesn’t like this guy? I’d put him on the cover of time as person of the year. This is just the beginning of some very interesting times. I can’t believe it took this long.

      And even more uplifting, this isn’t politically divisive. There isn’t going to be right vs left retribution over this. The entire political spectrum save for a few uppity pearl clutchers (mostly lib elites) are celebrating this.

      • Akuchimoya@startrek.website
        2·
        21 days ago

        School shootings are just a matter of course now, they’re not even newsworthy anymore unless there’s an Uvalde-level of utter incompetence involved. And even then, what happened? Nothing, nothing happened to the cowards who were complicit and accomplices to the murder of children by actively preventing people from around the killer. We’re told to get over it.

        So, you know, if I had to choose between school children being murdered as a matter of course and evil profiteers who revel and flourish on the pain and suffering of everyday people being murdered as a matter of course, I’d definitely chose the latter. I wouldn’t then tell people to get over it, I’d tell people the system obviously need to be dismantled and rebuilt entirely.

        My real preference would be that there are no evil profiteers who revel and flourish on the pain and suffering and that systems be functioning for the people in the first place, but unfortunately that’s not an option.