Well yeah. Your company kills people for profit, what you think their family is gonna feel? Don’t be an evil killer, my friends.
Paulette Thompson probably sucks, did you see who she was married to.
You finally broke the world billionaires… Time to go get the cans of beans rotated out in your bunkers. Tell your Paulettes to fuel up the tactical SUV and stick the tear gas perimeter dispensers. You’re about to get really fucking paranoid… Is this next horrible heartless decision your last… Yes, it probably is - does that change any in the decision you’ll make?
Can’t say what the specific motivations are without knowing who did it, but it certainly would be plausible that this was someone denied coverage for a terminal or otherwise life ruining condition. How many people out there did this guy’s company put into a hopeless situation? Once they have nothing to lose, it’s not hard to imagine someone deciding to get revenge.
Congress and the incoming Trump administration should also take note of that before they do anything to strip coverage from tens of millions of people.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is offering a £7,800 ($10,000) reward for information leading to the suspect’s capture.
I wouldn’t narc on this guy for any amount of money.
I wouldn’t narc on this guy for any amount of money.
There is a threshold where you can afford multiple hitman to keep his legacy going. Just saying.
10k is low, that wouldn’t cover a few years of health insurance deductibles for me. BCBS is like a $3,500/yr deductible.
$10k reward?
I don’t think the NYPD even wants to know
Right? This is the most capitalist thing I’ve ever heard of… He had a net worth of 50 million, but the cops are only offering 10k for info?
That’s like the equivalent of throwing your employees a pizza party because they increased profits 200%
That’s not a reason they would throw a pizza party. Parties and company shirts and hats are for when you get the signs that people might be quitting or not motivated. And according the HR’s data, it always makes them happy and ready to get back to work and stop asking for more money and benefits.
I don’t think the NYPD even wants to know
I wonder who their group policy is with?
And how many of them have been fucked over by that insurance company?
And $10,000 is just another insult to the peasants, frankly. I wouldn’t narc on this guy for anything either, but really? At least try, guys.
it was this guy
I’d rather they lock up Rudy AND other CEOs get executed.
Damn, they’re even being stingy with the reward money.
I bet its that lack of coverage again…
Instead of money they should offer some decent health care coverage.
But that could cost way more than $10K
Oh I thought they were caught at the scene for some reason. Now this is a victimless crime.
ibtimes is taking down comments immediately
Let me be the first to decry this senseless killing. Senseless killing of thousands of people in the name of profit. Also some loser got iced too I guess.
Boom goes the dynamite
Zerooooo sympathy.
Canary Cole mine?
He made a life promising one thing and doing another. His wife can’t fathom that the person who threatened to kill him was a man of their word.
hours before he was set to address an investor meeting about UnitedHealthcare’s 2025 financial outlook, which projected revenues exceeding £375 billion ($450 billion).
Man, good thing Biden said we didn’t need to fix our healthcare system. Otherwise that would be worrying…
Revenue is not profits. The profits are $28 billion, that’s only 6% which is actually low.
$28, 000, 000, 000.00 is low?
lmao
How many people did they kill for that $28B?
OK,
The company expects cash flows from operations to range from $32 billion to $33 billion.
Exactly, so they need to always have cash on hand to cover the insured.
IDK how this is run, and I find the existence of private health insurance despicable.
But for a capitalist system, where health insurance is run like a business, 6% profit on revenue is not a lot.
It’s not the 6% that is the problem. Because an insurance company needs to have profits and a healthy cash flow, to be able to cover the insured.But allegedly the company used AI to make decisions on coverage, if that’s true, that may have been a way bigger problem.
I would be very surprised if that cash was included in profit.
Yep, 28 billion isn’t much profit. How will he be able to afford his 300th yacht now on his measly salary?
$28bn is A Lot Of Fucking Money, my dude. Like…a lot.
At a rate of $20 an hour, it would take a person almost 160,000 years to earn that kind of money.
I guess there are consequences for your actions. Who would have thought.
That’s just one rare case. There’s plenty of others that go unpunished.
But that’s only supposed to apply to poor people!
Economic vigilantism is really dangerous and if this isn’t a one off it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
In the absence of justice, people settle for revenge instead.
it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable.
I think you mean, ‘people are starting to wake up to the fact that justice is unattainable’.
Where have you been the last decade or 3? If you’re rich and not going after other rich people, you’re practically untouchable. Bernie Madoff didn’t catch jail time because he defrauded Anne and Bill out of their pension, he defrauded people who
have moneymatter.It’s so unattainable that it’s become something even normies understand. There are rules for us, and there are none for them. Think about how ingrained that has become in U.S. culture recently, and you’ll come to the same conclusion the vigilante did.
And since it is not, there are no alternatives but to switch diets.
Trump has proven this, and the fact Elon (the richest manchild in the world) is literally in his cabinet now only exacerbates the situation.
I don’t think things are radically worse, that’s the interesting thing… It’s the fact we’ve discarded any semblance of justice at the highest levels. Like, nobody is even pretending now. The highest office in the land is about to be occupied by an openly corrupt idiot.
When people lose hope in their leaders, they realize it’s up to them to change the world. Great acts are often done in the fallout of such times. Both acts of great kindness, and great violence.
Injustices become things to act on when you have zero hope of change from the people who should be enacting change.
it’s likely an indicator that people feel like justice is unattainable
I’m sorry, have you not been paying attention?
Idk it sounds like someone else got a lot closer to getting justice than I’ll get.
Justice is unattainable in modern America. The shooter is a hero.
You could look at this as a one off, or if you want to start looking at assassinations in total then you get to include the two trump would be assassins and make a damn strong argument to your point that this is exactly what a society that refuses to hold people accountable looks like. Honestly its the same concept as when the Black Panthers started giving free breakfast to kids, if no one else is going to solve the problem, people will do it themselves.
Are you saying that this is proof of concept?
We have concepts of a revolution
Justice against these people IS unattainable. Nothing fucking touches them, case and point Trump can lead a violent insurrection and nothing happens
Well, we found one way it can touch them.
The great equalizer.
I don’t disagree that society has been unjust in actuality for quite some time.
I think public sentiment has been shifting so that more people are aware of how tiered our justice system is and that change in perception is what’s interesting.
I think Trump has shown people that they don’t need to hide the tieredness of the justice system anymore so it’s not surprising that more people are aware of it.
Trump is fucking bizarre. In pre-Trump times, the Jan 6th rioters would have been thrown to the wolves even by the politicians aligned with them because, you know, fuck the poor.
The fact that Trump may pardon them is quite surprising.
a few inches one direction and we wouldn’t be saying that.
Well, it’s too late now thanks to the asshole with the aim of a stormtrooper. The criminal won and all of his freaks and monsters are burrowing into America’s chest like some drug-resistant, flesh-eating bacteria. Best case scenario, we live with lots of necrotic tissue and deep scarring. That infection started spreading as soon as he named Vance as his successor.
Well, maybe let Paulette know that the clothes she is wearing, the car she is driving, the house she is living in, and anything else she owns was all bought with the deaths and suffering of thousands of people.
Huh… Sounds you get what you fucking deserve eh bub?
