• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
    609·
    1 month ago

    I don’t think people are celebrating because of who he was, but because of what he represents to them.

    • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      120·
      1 month ago

      A user in another post wrote that denials went from single digits to 20% when he became CEO.

      If that’s true, then people are celebrating both for who he was AND what he represents.

      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        1 month ago

        That is indeed the case, though there’s more to those numbers. Thos are numbers for prior authorization denials, but they’re also from a report focused on Medicare Advantage plans for elderly and disabled folks (you know, the people who would be most fucked over by denials). Pulled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_(businessman)

        The investigation revealed that in 2019, UHC’s prior authorization denial rate was 8.7%. Thompson became CEO in 2021, and by 2022 the rate of denial had increased to 22.7%.

        As an added bonus, there’s also this insanity that he tried to push through:

        In 2021, Thompson was criticized in an open letter from the American Hospital Association regarding a plan from UnitedHealthcare to start denying payment for what it deemed non-critical visits to hospital emergency rooms. UnitedHealthcare responded by delaying rollout of the change.

        I wonder if UHC has ever denied coverage to victims of gunshot wounds?

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 month ago

          His murder was clearly a message to Healthcare CEOs intended to scare them.

          That makes it terrorism, and life insurance policies usually have an exception for death in a terrorist attack.

      • Nottalottapies@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 month ago

        Question from a non-American, can you choose your Health insurer, or is it decided by your employer?

        If you can freely choose, it would be great to have these denial/delay rates published, so people could vote with their feet to the company with the lowest denial rates and thus apply pressure to companies like this.

        Simplistic view, I know. Things are much different here thank goodness.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      59·
      1 month ago

      No… also for who he was. As the CEO of that company, he is directly responsible for the deaths and financial hardships of many who depended on and paid his company to provide protection and relief from those things. And he did that not just through ineptitude or negligence but through willful action that prioritized his bottom line over human life. Fuck him.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        183·
        1 month ago

        The thing is though, he is merely a symptom of a sociopathic society, economic, and political system. UH under his leadership may be the most egregious example in US healthcare, but the fact remains that the current system rewards psychopathy and narcissism with wealth and power. There is an endless supply of criminally corrupt scabs just like him that will step up to take his place for a chance at being the slave master.

        Greed, exploitation, extortion, fraud, theft, corruption, murder, terrorism, authoritarianism, ecocide, genocide; all of these are rewarded or condoned on some level by our “democracies” as long as you do it behind the shield of an LLC, in the name of profit.

        We are on a rock floating in the middle of nowhere, that took billions of years to materialize a biosphere out of nothing, in a cold and desolate universe, and the system we have chosen is aggressively annihilating it all in the blink of an eye. We are a cancer that is killing our host.

        THE WORLD HUMANITY HAS BUILT — THE REALITY WE ACCEPT — IS PSYCHOTIC!

    • jettrscga@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 month ago

      The Ewoks probably felt similarly.

      Well okay, destroying the giant death laser probably had its perks. But also symbolism for the Empire.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      10·
      1 month ago

      I mean part of it is he is the ceo. Its like if anyone is responsible for the bullshit companies do its the ceo and board of directors. I think a lot of folks would like them to fear for their lives is their corps are fucking folks over. Maybe they might decide limiting anesthias medicine in surgeries is not such a hot idea or such.

  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    48·
    1 month ago

    Not saying it’s ever good to assassinate anyone, buuut, considering what it takes to aquire large sums of bloody money like that, maybe with some of them a little oopsie can be overlooked . . .

  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    When it comes to death penalty I am with Gandalf.

    However, if you’re a cog in the machine that’s crushing human lives and dreams to dust, you can’t be mad when some of them clap back. That’s just fair.