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tarataqa
Putin is the real enemy. [final answer; locking it in]
rossonerinho
Western Health Advantage not offering medicare plans next year. Their coverage literally saved my life. For next year my best choice was AARP/United Healthcare. Even my medical group said they were my best choice of what was available. I'm cautiously pessimistic.
Gryphonosiris
Racists who watch Newsmax: "Ummmm.... 'dem brown peoples who talk funny...!"
unremarkableasterisk
ViolentlyJaded
The metric system?
LatterdayCandide
That certainly sounds glib. I'll allow it.
MrsHowVeryDareYou
Yeah but one of those choices the The Right Color.
VaultGirl69
It's asking too much for people to care about math when it comes to human life. Million deaths from Covid, but it mildly inconvenienced some people. Neglectfully killing their high risk friends, family, and coworkers. People care about healthcare because it's too expensive for most of the population. Thanks to divisive politics, the important daily issues in life are ignored. Even by the impoverished.
Huhwhatcrazy
Please compare the number of deaths he caused
GoodJuJuuu
Sometimes these idiots need it written out all the way: 31,500,000 vs 20. Doesn't get any clearer than that
Tumescentpie
For the first time since the election I'm feeling optimistic about the future again. Nothing like a dead CEO to brighten the spirit. I only hope that our contemporary Robin Hood, the Adjuster, lives a long a fulfilling life untouched by the paramilitary police that serve the ruling class.
deranged1977
As a non American. Brian Thompson, the actor who played the Night Slasher in Cobra??
stsword
No, Brian Thompson the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, which under his leadership rejected about a third of all insurance claims, and was recently gunned down.
Polymathena
vakler
MissSpelledTattoo
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-assassin-showed-just-how-angry
fractalsphere
He's getting more coverage than HUNDREDS of other unsolved murders on NYC's police blotters.
ralph2sam
nachosyndicate
Bam
RobErtE87
friendsofsandwiches
hmmm, so which IS more effective? seems to me the M design would still work even if the blades were slightly dull.
ralph2sam
I suggest lining up butter knives instead of a big blade.
BishlamekGurpgork
Okay, I do not favor persecuting migrants. They're just trying to live, leave'em the fuck alone. But this feels like an odd figure. Just statistically, it's thought that migrants make up around 3.3-ish percent of the population, and initial figures estimate the people dead in the US in 2024 around 3.2 million. (I assume "in the same span" means "in the year of 2024.)
Just on numbers alone, that percentage of the population should account for over 100K of 3.3 million. 20? Where did 20 come from?
BishlamekGurpgork
United Healthcare is still a monster, of course, I'm not going to stand against that claim.
SkeletorOverlordofEvil
UncleMeaty
I see a lot of hatred for healthcare CEOs and wish American's would direct some of that hatred to the system that makes them possible and fucking remember it when you vote.
wandermanspacebot
There's a lot of hatred for pretty much everything from younger millennials and Gen Z. Not enough to get off their asses and vote, but enough for a little online outrage from time to time, which is all they're capable of.
3stan2112
You mean convince Americans to not vote against their own interests? ROFLMAO, good luck with that...
KawhiLeonardIsSenpai
Americans hear you loud and clear, and will vote for Trump in 2028
DukeDarkwood
Now that's nonsense, on multiple levels. 1: If he were going to follow the rules, he'd be ineligible for a third term. 2: If he gets his way, there won't BE a 2028 election in the first place (or, at most, a farcical 'show election'). 3: At his age and in his state of dementia, even someone privileged like him would be remarkably lucky to survive the next four years.
whatsisname
Even when you do vote, the politicians barely give a fuck. Even Democrats barely give a shit, they listen to lobbyists far, far more https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
magicaljeep
They will never get it
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Republicans are so fucking stupid they'll cheer for a medical insurance CEO's death but then vote against getting universal healthcare because "NUHHH THE TAAXEESSS..."
Leaps
They get it, they just don’t care. They have to be made to care.
TsubakiTragic
Their allegiance is to shareholders, no one else, no matter what spin they put on their efforts.
OneMoreLime
No one can be free untill the last billionaire has been garrotted with the entrails of the last ceo...
nonqua
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CreepyPhlox
Brian Thompson was the lowest paid healthcare ceo and not a billionaire. There are more making more than him though.
damion20xx
So what you are saying is he's the cutoff and there is more work to do.
quadraspaz1
Still doesn't make him worthy of life
mothmam
Perfect update of the original Voltaire quote!
LatterdayCandide
Extra brownie points for flash!
BanzaiRun
Diderot*
cusbuster
I think the original was the entrails of the last priest.
OneMoreLime
Yes but they worship money now and what is a ceo if not a high priest of capital.
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
Yep, when the church held the power of oppression. Not that it doesn’t still hold some of it, but no where near those of the oligarchy.
I’ve always found it interesting that Plato preferred the oligarchs over democracy in The Republic. Obviously I’m a product of my time and he his, and there’s a lot to unwrap there… I’m curious if anyone has any thoughts on that?
FrancsTireur
Well Athens was never a republic in the true sense of the word; it was always far more oligarchy than democracy, but I think his concerns would be rooted in that the mob can be weaponised by an individual rich enough, skilled enough or popular enough to turn on that individuals enemies and the enemies of such individuals pretty much always included the thinkers like Plato. In essence democracy is a door through which populism often enters and behind populism is authoritarianism. Plato is far 1/
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
I appreciate your reply and thoughts, but my take is Plato has a preference of an Authoritarian over either anyway, just happens to deem an Oligarchy superior to Democracy and its eventual fall into tyranny.
FrancsTireur
From the only commentator on politics and human behaviour to level this criticism against democracy. Churchill famously said that the best argument against democracy was 5 minutes with the average voter. Oligarchys, if well intentioned, can in theory maintain a level of freedom for the masses that doesn't fluctuate; but that's its downfall as well, it doesn't fluctuate. It neither increases nor decreases and so is ultimately repressive. The average venetian was quite content with their 2/
FrancsTireur
"Republic" but there were men who found it restrictive. Eventually this train of thought leads you to the question that still sparks massive debate today; if an authoritarian path is chosen by the will of the majority then is it authoritarianism with a democratic mandate. 3
Futchm
If we just say that each of those people have 3 people that care about them, that is over 100 million people with a motive
1 in 3 Americans
GoldenSun3DS
I think it's way more than that because you don't have to have the specific insurance to have a motive, or even have insurance at all. It's possible that the killer was someone that wanted a target and chose the highest profile target instead of the insurance that he had. It's possible he had no insurance and was simply upset at the state of Healthcare in America.
imakesoap
If you use google’s number of 334.9 million for the population of the US and this post’s number of 31.5 million claims denied last year, that means that United Healthcare denied a claim for almost 10% of the population of the United States (9.4%). Almost ONE OUT OF TEN AMERICANS
imakesoap
Oh wait, that says “in 2024” and 2024 isn’t over yet, they have a chance to get it up to 10%! Maybe over! Wooohooo!
epithymetic
31.5 million claims do not necessarily come from 31.5 million people. Nor do they mean 31.5 million deaths.
My dad was in hospital for a week, which generated something like 20 claims for different procedures and tests. And he made a full recovery.
kiarasa
Yep. When I was in the hospital for a month, I got over 100 claims. One for every x-ray, and they did two a day.
imakesoap
Yeah I meant to put “equivalent” to 1 of 10 Americans but I type faster than I think lol