The shooting of the UnitedHealth Group CEO appears targeted, which means the police are trying to figure out a motive. Built-in systemic Inefficiencies and poor outcomes are a good starting point. Then there is the issue of the company’s specific behavior.
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It’s expensive to be poor in America. Indeed, one of the big complaints in the last election was “If I’m supposed to be middle class, how come I feel so poor?” A lot of average people just need more money and they would have easier lives. Yet the news rarely talks about gini coefficients or what has happened to wealth distribution over the past 40 years.
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Right on!
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So I am in favor of DEFYING the ruling if the majority Court upholds the ban. Let them try and enforce it.
I am also in favor of DEFYING any future national abortion ban. Again, let them try and enforce it.
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This is a good description. IMO, a lot of “journalism” now is performative. That is, it exists for strictly a kind of entertainment value and not for informative value, and perhaps not for any informative value. Competition fits into the entertainment genre, but does require some people willing to take some interest in the competition, that is, get wrapped up into it emotionally. I think the problem stems from journalists needing 1) to work on a deadline 2) with limited resources 3) but still write stories that capture at least a few eyeballs. So sometimes “hot takes” it is, competition style.
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Exactly. So that leaves us with maybe 100 million potential suspects. A regular “Murder on the Orient Express” situation, except that a single shooter was observed and videoed.
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My wife was telling me this morning that he had received numerous death threats.
The right wing stochastic violence with guns™ against “elitism” may have ricocheted to this CEO. *
*Note: “violence with guns” is a registered trademark of the Republican party
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One v9ctim and there are many possible motives. UHC has been screwing us on health care insurance for decades. And the actual medical health care they insure is not even close to being second rate. It could have been someone who watched a loved one in agony. It could have been someone who was denied mental health coverage. It could have been an associate of someone who was on the wrong end of the big stock dump. Or it could have been some NRA gun nut that was out to shoot someone and randomly fixed on this guy.
It’s a mystery. All we know for sure is Starbucks coffee is too expensive.
Because trump has trained media outlets to pay attention to his every move. This is his superpower. He has established a chaotic environment where anything and everything absurd, awful, criminal, or appalling is possible, so media sources flock to him and stayed glued to his side, awaiting his pronouncements and spending hours of broadcast time and column inches on analyzing the ramifications of every orange fart. They will never get as sick of him as we are.
I agree that it is exhausting being bombarded with tidbits of trump misbehavior every hour of every day. I always want to scroll past the attention-seeking antics of the world’s biggest con man, but his face and lying screeds are plastered everywhere, like Big Brother. The sitting president is ignored so the media can focus all its resources on this stinking piece of shit rotting away. Disgusting.
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I just went to take a look at the briefs. What really bothers me is that there was absolutely no argument about parental rights. The advocates were saying that there should be heightened scrutiny based on gender, but nowhere was there any argument that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children’s upbringing and to manage their care (including health care). If the parent has decided (with the best interest of their children in mind) that transgender medical care is best, how is it that the State gets to intervene without a strong justification?
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Yeah, he was definitely targeted. Question is was it about insider trading or denial of insurance claims? He was suppose to be depose for all the stock he sold 2 weeks before it dropped. Then there was the scathing report from a Senate panel for insurerer’s refusal to pay for care for seniors who suffer falls or strokes under Medicare Advantage plans. United was cited in particular for surge in denials for “ post-acute” care. The report found the denial rate for United increased from 10.9% in 2020 to 22.7% in 2022.
I can’t imagine what it is now.
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He is/was a scumbag for sure, but this seems to be the thing with insurance companies now. Just read this today where Anthem Blue Cross won’t even pay for full anesthesia! No wonder people are pissed. We need a MediCare for all situation so badly but that won’t be happening anytime soon.
This is beyond belief. How is this even legal? It’s like how UPS has their drivers timed for deliveries. I mean surgery doesn’t always go as planned…shyt happens. Are surgeons & staff getting stiffed, what if there are surgery residents? Doesn’t training/instructing lengthen surgery time especially if they knick a vessel or vein is friable or there’s a bleeder? This is unconscionable.
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It’s pretty shocking. Are the surgeons and anesthesiologists supposed to hurry up and get the job done … as if they were working in a fast food restaurant making a burger or something?
We won’t be hearing about those kind of reports for the next 4 years.
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They are avid practitioners of Calvin Ball, and they never lose.
This is the kind of great stuff that made the Frankfurt Marxists famous. In the same spirit, I suspect Kamala’s campaign got sucked into the same vortex as “unjournalist” after “unjournalist” praised and supported her. Not to disparage Kamala (she did well), but it’s hard to get the attention of a pipe fitter in Ohio when you are being stroked by Oprah and Beyonce.
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Stare decisis? We don’t need no stinkin’ stare decisis.
O/T
I’m just wondering. Will the public identify Manhattan shooter? Perhaps, the masses are fed up/ Millions have had claims denied. Why identify a person who has been head of company denying your loved one’s claim? How many feel he’s a hero? How many want a statement made.
How many will look him in eye, say amen & never call police. It’s the masses vs the oligarchs.
What do we gain when there’s already a loved one who died due to claims denied,
And while we can’t bring them back we can celebrate that someone had the guts to do what we wanted…and never identify them…cause doing it via legislative democracy ain’t working.
Will the masses identify him, or keep looking the other way with a thumbs up? Shooter is not the enemy. Insurers seeking profit over saving lives is the enemy.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist, is considering a plan to link a university’s likelihood of receiving research grants to some ranking or measure of academic freedom on campus, people familiar with his thinking said.
I get the economics part: Adam Smith was a saint and J.M. Keynes was some kind of commie Bloomsbury omni-sexual destroyer of wealth… But the physician part? Have we sunk so low that we have reverted back to the days when it was un-American to do AIDS research? It seems so.
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