United Healthcare CEO gunned down

WingsOfGold

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You still have to be a really sick MF'er to CELEBRATE someone's killing.

Even when it was bin Laden, I would have preferred he go to trial and face people for what he'd done.

Remember these are the same people who both claim the moral high ground in every instance - but also wish Crooks had gotten Trump.
AND - they call US "haters".
Don't care about OBL one way other other. too bad not taken alive and xformed him into a woman and put in general population someplace like ECI. .
 

vraiblonde

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I think that you have spoken too soon.
Right now we have no idea why this was done. Once we do then you can decide whether or not something was accomplished, today it is too soon to tell.

Seriously do you think they might go, "Okay, you win, we'll start covering treatments"? Because if they do, I'm going to start making a list of things I want from various corporations.
 

vraiblonde

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You sure do seem to be talking out both sides of your mouth. Here in this post, you pretty much said it was just fine and dandy that the guy was killed. As you said, you are "good with execution."

I was referring to Osama bin Laden and that was crystal clear.
 

phreddyp

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Seriously do you think they might go, "Okay, you win, we'll start covering treatments"? Because if they do, I'm going to start making a list of things I want from various corporations.
No blondie, if the gunman was trying to keep the CEO from testifying in an insider trading suit, my guess is he accomplished that. Would you agree?
 

vraiblonde

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No blondie, if the gunman was trying to keep the CEO from testifying in an insider trading suit, my guess is he accomplished that. Would you agree?

Okay, I see - I was unaware of that part. See? I told you I haven't really been paying attention. All I keep seeing is people saying the shooter must have been pissed that his insurance wouldn't cover some procedure.

But I absolutely believe someone would kill him to keep him from testifying. :yay:
 

phreddyp

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Okay, I see - I was unaware of that part. See? I told you I haven't really been paying attention. All I keep seeing is people saying the shooter must have been pissed that his insurance wouldn't cover some procedure.

But I absolutely believe someone would kill him to keep him from testifying. :yay:
Me too !
 

TPD

the poor dad

GURPS

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Yesterday’s news became a media maelstrom after the brutual, filmed assassination of an elite healthcare executive. You can’t imagine the astonishingly ironic pandemic connection. The New York Post ran the dramatic story last night headlined, “UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin may have left message on bullets used in murder: sources.” The Post wouldn’t say what three words appeared on three bullet casings, but fortunately ABC ran that story before the news embargo started.

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You’ve probably already heard about this shocking crime story, which dominated yesterday afternoon’s news cycle and most of social media. The short version is, Health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare’s Chief Executive Officer, Brian Thompson, 50, was assassinated right outside the New York City Hilton around 6am yesterday morning. The whole thing was captured on the hotel’s security camera, and the video leaked even faster than the shell casing story.

The masked shooter, who during the killing calmly and coolly cleared his jammed gun three times before finishing the job, casually mounted a strategically placed, city-provided electric scooter and scooted to Central Park, where the trail went cold. Progressives applauded the gunman’s choice of an environmentally friendly getaway vehicle and invited the killer to emcee next year’s Oscars.

Seriously, the scooter was a smart choice; fast enough to evade cops chasing him on foot and agile enough to weave through Manhattan traffic and use sidewalks, evading vehicular pursuit.

Demonstrating even more environmental sensitivity, the killer kindly left behind in a nearby trash can a Starbucks coffee cup (empty) and a water bottle (empty). So there’s plenty of evidence. Let’s see how long it takes them to arrest someone. More on that in a minute.

Social media is flooding with analyses of every bit of evidence and with theories about the motive for what looks like a professional hit, sort of, though the evidence is mixed on that point. There are several suggestive facts. First, United was being probed by the DOJ for antitrust violations and for insider trading, with company officers (including Thompson) having dumped United shares without disclosing the DOJ investigation to shareholders, who could be grumpy. Next, the insurer boasts the highest claims denial rate of any health insurer. Thompson’s widow said he regularly got death threats from people whose claims were denied, who are probably even more grumpy.

Next, in March, United found itself suqarely in Biden’s crosshairs, after a cyberattack gummed up United’s operations. The White House said the short delay in processing provider payments had “destabilized the nation’s healthcare system:”

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The chance of destabilizing the entire healthcare system shows the risks of concentrating so much of the Medicare business in one company. Single-payor proponents should take note.

Chillingly, the company’s stock price aberrantly increased after its CEO was killed, suggesting who knows what? Conspiracies. Big money. Who-Killed-JR-style drama.

Nobody knows. All we can say right now is there’s plenty of drama for the inevitable daytime miniseries, though probably not on Hallmark.



 

SamSpade

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This entire narrative of disgruntled citizen shooting an evil CEO in the back has all the feel of a Jusse Smollett “this is what you’re supposed to believe” story.

I think what’s gonna happen is - this shooter is going to get shot somehow, and that will tie up the whole story nicely for the masses.

What I think is what has happened many times - someone powerful supplied an unwitting stooge to do their work for then. Some pissed off guy who mouthed off on social media.

This CEO was in town for a meeting and somehow where he would be and what exit he used was known to the shooter. I guarantee that without more advance knowledge this shooter could have lingered days with no luck.

No. Someone told him.

Maybe a competitor. Maybe another inside trader who wanted him silenced.

IF - the shooter ends up dead - you’ll know it was fishy.
 

PJay

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glhs837

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In passing. It's just that the work involved in tracking this person down and stalking their movements seems too much for some random disgruntled person, not to mention it won't change anything.

Maybe it's just me - I'd make a terrible criminal mastermind because I wouldn't even know where to start with something like that. Think about a corporate CEO, then mentally go through the motions of committing an act like this. There's a lot involved in just tracking them down and being able to get close to them. Now you have to actually make that happen, and you can't have accomplices to help you because they'll rat you out every time.

And this is a person whose resources are so limited they have an HMO instead of a regular health insurance plan.

Now if it was a professional hit and they did certain things to make it look like a lone angry gunman, I'd believe that.

Until we know more about it, hard to say. Shooter could be local to New York and was biding his time. People like this CEO, information not hard to come by. Just make sure your feed is filled with every news article about United Health. Goggle it a few times, and click on every single link that appears with United Health and or this guys name. Same for Insta, X and the rest. Let the algorithm do your work for you.

Betting that he's going to be at the major corporate event not Day of the Jackal level planning. People always overestimate how much time it takes to get information and how much is available. Especially on notable people who run gargantuan companies. Company newsletters, Linkdin profiles, social media posts by adjacent persons. And you take the health care plan your work offers. I have United, but have more than enough resources that I could make my way to any city in the country and camp out in a hotel for a few days.

Even if you don't. selling of everything you own to finance this isn't out of the question since you most likely will have to start life over. Train ticket, a few days in a hostel, then fade and start working odd jobs in nowhere USA.
 

glhs837

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This entire narrative of disgruntled citizen shooting an evil CEO in the back has all the feel of a Jusse Smollett “this is what you’re supposed to believe” story.

I think what’s gonna happen is - this shooter is going to get shot somehow, and that will tie up the whole story nicely for the masses.

What I think is what has happened many times - someone powerful supplied an unwitting stooge to do their work for then. Some pissed off guy who mouthed off on social media.

This CEO was in town for a meeting and somehow where he would be and what exit he used was known to the shooter. I guarantee that without more advance knowledge this shooter could have lingered days with no luck.

No. Someone told him.

Maybe a competitor. Maybe another inside trader who wanted him silenced.

IF - the shooter ends up dead - you’ll know it was fishy.

Well, this was tough. Took me literally less than two minutes of typing in UHC Annual Investor Conference 2024.


UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) will host its annual Investor Conference for analysts and institutional investors in New York City on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST.

As for what door and when, well, folks usually enter the front door of the hotel. Especially big city ones. And if the conference starts of 0800, knowing that usually the first speaker at these sorts of things is the CEO, pretty safe bet he'll be arriving before then. Set up the night before near that door and wait.
 

vraiblonde

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Set up the night before near that door and wait.

And hope you recognize him because that guy looks like every other CEO in the country. He's not distinctive. You could wait in front of that door for an hour and see 20 guys who look just like him, especially in the dark.

There's a lot that can go wrong with that plan, not the least of which is someone coming along and telling you to get lost. A hotel like that doesn't just let vagrants hang around the door.
 

glhs837

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And hope you recognize him because that guy looks like every other CEO in the country. He's not distinctive. You could wait in front of that door for an hour and see 20 guys who look just like him, especially in the dark.

There's a lot that can go wrong with that plan, not the least of which is someone coming along and telling you to get lost. A hotel like that doesn't just let vagrants hang around the door.
There's enough pictures out there. And it wasnt that dark. Looks like the guy was close enough to see him under the streetlights. Always a lot that can go wrong with any plan. I'll tell you what pros don't do. They don't bring a gun that they haven't run hundreds of rounds through with the same ammo they are going to use.
 

GURPS

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This CEO was in town for a meeting and somehow where he would be and what exit he used was known to the shooter. I guarantee that without more advance knowledge this shooter could have lingered days with no luck.


The 2nd Trump shooter was camped out on the Golf Course for a couple of days
 

vraiblonde

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There's enough pictures out there. And it wasnt that dark. Looks like the guy was close enough to see him under the streetlights. Always a lot that can go wrong with any plan. I'll tell you what pros don't do. They don't bring a gun that they haven't run hundreds of rounds through with the same ammo they are going to use.

Well we'll never know, just like the Las Vegas shooter who got memory-holed.
 

glhs837

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High end NYC hotels typically have great security, not the bumbling Secret Service tards.
But he wasn't camped out at the hotel. He was camped out near the hotel. You know how many people are just idly hanging around New York City streets at any given moment?
 
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