Read the article. It reveals these laws are patchwork by states
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Most people who voted for Trump appear ignorant of who he actually is. A fair number are figuring it out belatedly and regret voting for him.
A muzzled press is not much use.
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Wow!
Iâm not surprised but I am by this.
If it were I would leave ⌠even at my age and with my seriously screwed up back
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Iâm sorry but the LA Times owner is revealing himself to be a Grade A moron. No doubt adept in his field, but his grasp of the moral and cultural complexity of the world the average person lives in seems to be next to zero.
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Seems the manâs rich but simple-minded. Simply canât get past the binary dichtomies into the grays, color, and nuanced.
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Harry Litman resigned because of Soon-Shiongâs shite. Not a subscriber so I actually didnât realize he wrote for the paper â just liked him on podcasts etc.
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Assuming there is a white side and a black side and no gray in between, let alone blue or green or red sides.
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Meanwhile, over at PoliticoâŚ
Collins says sheâs âimpressedâ after first meeting with Elon Musk
âGee, how surprisingâ said pretty much nobody.
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About those bullet castings and the motiveâŚJust saying
Somebody wrote a book
Delay Deny Defend : Why Insurance Companies Donât Pay Claim and What You Can Do about It
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Major insurers make drastic change as they ramp up security measures after brazen shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson | Daily Mail Online
Health insurance companies have started removing images of their leadership teams from their websites following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 50-year-old was murdered on Wednesday morning when a masked gunman unloaded several rounds outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan. Thompson was named UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2021 and earned a reported $10 million a year, and for several years prior he ran the Medicare business within UnitedHealthcare. His company took down his image and other executivesâ photos on Wednesday, while CVS Health removed pictures of all of their top executives on Thursday.
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Perhaps the rich and powerful will look at the Brian Thompson situation and think twice about how they shit on those below them.
PFFT⌠What am I dreaming, no way that would ever happen.
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Whatâs one exec when thereâs a billion $$$$$$ to be made.
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LA times is eager to report âDems in Disarrayâ from both the bias right and non bias ultra right perspectives.
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Funny how this was the news of the day. Nothing about the healthcare guyâs assassination.
Heather Cox Richardson did a good job (admittedly overnight):
Thompsonâs murder seems to be a cultural moment in which popular fury over the power big business has over ordinary Americansâ lives exploded.
She then found an historical analogy to 1872. Link.
Also: Raskin did not teach at Yale â 25 years at American University, Washington College of Law in DC.
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Things arenât always what they seem. It looks like becoming very rich involves being willing to, if not actually killing people. This UHC case looks like a professional hit to me. I imagine the top executives are also willing to kill each other in their sacred quests to own everything. In a deregulated business environment, it becomes a necessity.
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He has a brother & 2 sons, 19&16. He & wifey were estranged.
This event was not R nor D politics rather itâs about the health insurers. The insurers deny the elderly, sick & suffering coverage of their claims. While CEOâs pull in base pay of $10M without stocks, pension & benefits. They travel the globe in private jets, stay in $5K night hotels & dine in finest restaurants worldwide, while the elderly canât get coverage for their care or nursing facility.
While Brian was not directly responsible he lived off the profits from denying claims. He was also CPA & likely created models to maximize profits by denying claims. The bean counters took over health care disputing medical care on basis of costs doctors prescribed. It was all about money not what was medically necessary. So the masses are fed up.
Millions denied claims will not mourn the horror of the event. United Healthcare has one of the highest rates in industry of claim denials.
RIP Brian right next to all the millions of MedicareAdvantage patients whose claims were denied.
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ramp up their private security details
(Preferably paid for by the company, or by all of us as a deductible business expense.)
Sadly, what many donât realize is that this is going to cause an increase in premiums, delays, and denials since now Insurance company execs will need 24 hour security protection, and it all has to be paid for without hurting those execs bottom line. In fact, since may of them are compensated based on the premiums they bring in and keep, while OUR premiums will go up, so will THEIR salaries.
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