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2024-12-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Bill Burr Loves Health Insurance CEOs Fearing for Their Lives: 'Selfish, Greedy F**king Pieces of S**t'
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Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ]  Top

#1 I have a lot of mixed feelings about the insurance CEO and his murder. First he is a criminal. He ran a program to take over health institutions by not paying them and then buying the clinics and offices before they went into bankruptcy. This is something the mafia does. Then he did the same to pharmacies. So he then controlled the entire medical network for millions of people that could not get care. He directed policies for 22% of all medicare/Medicaid patients. All the while with a 30% plus denial rate. The plan is people would die during the appeal process, or when legal action took place. No one in DOJ was listening as ten of thousands of people suffered at his profit making scheme. He was worse than Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, or even Enron execs. He hurt the most vulnerable, the sick people who paid for insurance only to be cheated out of it causing pain and death. If our justice system cared, even a little bit, drastic actions would not be needed. The new CEO doubled down on this process and gave a "Full steam ahead" message to employees. Ya, the CEO did not deserve to be murdered, he deserved to be raped daily in prison.
The media is screaming, to include FOX of how terrible this was calling the shooter a coward etc... They do this because big pharma owns them all, Pharma is the #1 advertiser on all major networks.
While murder is definitely wrong I ask this. Mr Penny was found innocent for killing a man that was threatening to kill people, the shooter killed a man that was killing people. When our justice system refuses to act, people will take actions into their own hands.
This is a dilemma Plato would love to have discussed... The shooter could have screamed at the top of a mountain, no one was listening. Now we all know more about the fraud, greed, and systematic pain and suffering United did to Americans, whats next???
Posted by 49 Pan 2024-12-12 02:08||   2024-12-12 02:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I just heard the reward was denied for the McDonalds employee that turned the shooter in.
Posted by 49 Pan 2024-12-12 02:29||   2024-12-12 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref #1: They do this because big pharma owns them all, Pharma is the #1 advertiser on all major networks.

I hadn't noticed.

[sarc off]
Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-12 03:56||   2024-12-12 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 UnitedHealthcare Group boss sparks fury in leaked email to staff after CEO Brian Thompson's shooting
Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-12 05:36||   2024-12-12 05:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Big Pharm, Big Health. Just who ordered everyone to get mandatory health insurance*? The government. How's all that regulatory collusion working for the market? In a truly open market would you hang around a company with high levels of denial? The great thing about it for Obamanics is that the institutions get all the blame not the pols who assembled this concoction.

* argued before SCOTUS as a 'tax'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-12 07:16||   2024-12-12 07:16|| Front Page Top

#6 What has me paying attention is the reaction by the proletariat. Most have no idea of Thompson's actions but they instantly recognized one of theirs "got him", where as they'd been deeply disappointed by two failed attempts to get Trump. This is only feeding their desire for more blood and they'll probably get it via copycats.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-12-12 09:07||   2024-12-12 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 P2K, great comment... I hadn't thought about that...
Posted by 49 Pan 2024-12-12 10:20||   2024-12-12 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Ya, the CEO did not deserve to be murdered, he deserved to be raped daily in prison.

I think we should be very careful about the type of society we think we'd like to have. This CEO was never charged with a crime.
Posted by Crusader 2024-12-12 10:49||   2024-12-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 No one complains when a guy with a gun in school or the mall hats killed by a citizen. No one complains when a drug kingpin gets killed in a shootout, or a terrorist gets drone zapped. But a CEO that systematically denies people healthcare in the greatest nation on earth causing pain, suffering and death reminds me of action of the nazi regime. Our government has done nothing but five us to participate in this murderous sceme. Ya, there is a special place in prisons for men that hurt children and people than are in need. This man was spared his true justice.
Posted by 49+Pan 2024-12-12 12:23||   2024-12-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Anybody remember the 'Death Panel'?

RETRO
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare 'death panel' challenge
Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-12 12:43||   2024-12-12 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 When Obamacare was developed, the health insurance companies provided much of the statutory language.

This was the deal. The govt knew that the only way to may healthcare affordable (or close to that) was to control costs. How to do that. The Govt did not want to be the 'bad guy' denying medicine, denying service, etc. So they got the insurance industry to do it by promising them a lot of leeway in insurance cost and a lot of leeway in supervising medical service.

and, btw, a number of health insurance companies are non profit and they deny claims sometime also
Posted by Lord Garth 2024-12-12 12:53||   2024-12-12 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 This CEO was never charged with a crime.

Seems to be a lot of that going on recently.

Mine is doing its level best at hosing us; rumor has it our state's insurance commissioner is our insurance commissioner because that same carrier hosed her, too.

And the -unsubstantiated- rumors about certain carriers basically hinting to their clients to get the jab or be priced out.

It would be fun to get a survey of how many in Stewart's audience were for Obamacare.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-12 12:59||   2024-12-12 12:59|| Front Page Top

#13 The purpose of Obamacare was never to reduce healthcare costs. It was to drive toward universal government healthcare — Medicare for all — and to make the intervening step as uncomfortable as possible to punish the deplorables for their temerity in objecting. And in fact, the introduction of the Obamacare option alongside private care and expanded Medicare to those classes previously uncovered by it drove up costs while driving doctors to retire because the annoyances became so much greater than they’d already become.

My endocrinologist is for the fourth time in the past two decades the last remaining doctor in his practice, meaning once again he is caring for all the patients of the practice by himself, a number of patients cared for by about ten doctors back when I started going to him. Thank goodness Nurse-Practitioners and such have become a thing, or my appointments with him would be 30 seconds long instead of ten minutes.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-12 13:59||   2024-12-12 13:59|| Front Page Top

#14 'Selfish, Greedy F**king Pieces of S**t'

Well, thinking about it, isn't that pretty much everyone in the Beltway? And if so, is this not the time to step back when they promote wacking each other for 'sport' among their flock? Just saying.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-12 14:43||   2024-12-12 14:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry, I can't join this idea that executives of legal industries deserve extrajudicial killing. At what level of the organizational chart would the justifications end? Vice President? CFO? Receptionist at a local field office.

That's no way to run a railroad.
Posted by Crusader 2024-12-12 15:14||   2024-12-12 15:14|| Front Page Top

#16 When will we discover this is a 'Trump Effect'?
Posted by Bobby 2024-12-12 16:12||   2024-12-12 16:12|| Front Page Top

#17 As soon as they realize that the other side to their panty wetting coin of those who can't be prosecuted should receive street justice venn could include Brandon's pardonpalooza.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-12 16:59||   2024-12-12 16:59|| Front Page Top

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-12 17:17||   2024-12-12 17:17|| Front Page Top

#19 well gee, I guess those big donations to the Donks/Left didn't buy 'protection'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-12 18:45||   2024-12-12 18:45|| Front Page Top

#20 When history, real history, isn't learned or taught.

Its that moment when they realize maybe that the money they pay and and their loyalty they pledge doesn't make them equals, but hostages.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-12 19:43||   2024-12-12 19:43|| Front Page Top

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