UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Midtown

For years now I've wondered why health insurance companies haven't been the regular target of violence by clients who's lives they've destroyed. They're unique institutions because of how they regularly condemn people to death right to their faces for the most bullshit unjust kafkaesque reasons. I guess maybe a situation like that just sucks the life out of you too much to get motivated by revenge.
- I think most people have too much to lose/too much on their shoulders.
  I have two kids and a spouse, if some bean counter at a health insurance company took one of them away I'd be beside myself with grief, but I'd also know that the other two needed me now more than ever. Can't go to prison.
  I think people with basically only one strong bond might be more likely to snap, but even for them depression and survival instincts probably make it hard to end up with adventurism.
  
  But think of the number of Americans that are willing to throw that all away to do violence. Mass shootings happen every day.
- Honestly same. The healthcare industry has ruined countless people's lives, it's almost shocking something like this hasn't happened before
- CIA propaganda probably. "Sure our system is flawed but (CIA propaganda)."

Recently had a very personal and active role in someone's journey of discovering they had cancer to eventually dying from it.
Every step of the way I was left speechless and horrified at how little her "insurance" was willing to cover, at how we were denied what I consider to be even the most basic degree of care for someone going through the painful, boring, terrifying, demeaning descent towards the end of her life. How many dozens and dozens and dozens of times I had to console her daughter, frantic and crying in disbelief that not only was she losing her mother, but also that we were constantly having to question our ability to afford the care she was being given, never for a single moment being able to wrestle with the tragedy of cancer killing her mother without also having to stare down the constantly rising cost of merely a fraction of the care that she both needed and deserved.
So uh yeah, fuck this guy and everyone like him. Fuck this whole system and everyone who benefits from the unfathomable scope of suffering it wreaks upon innumerable individuals and the people who love them.
Rot in hell, loser.
- Ah, sorry to hear that comrade. Hopefully one day only the good memories of her are what remain. Couldn't agree more though - rot in hell, loser.

this should be a regular feature of American life
CEOs should be afraid to walk down the street, especially "healthcare" ghouls
- They are. I have been Never been in the same room as a ceo. Probably never even in the same zip code. If they lived around regular people they would for sure get got on occasion. I know about one vacation city where you have to fly in or out.
  
  Zuckerberg has undercover guards even in small staff meetings because he can't trust his own employees to not shove a pencil into his eyeballs
- This is literally the justification for the absurd gun ownership in the country. This is what they're for. This is the reason we should have the second amendment. This is the release valve for when shit gets out of hand like it does.
  People forget that peaceful protest only works because of the implicit threat of violence - "you should do what we're asking because you couldn't stop all of us if we decided to do something about it."

So I'm not going to encourage adventurism please don't do it. Dying on your own is not the way to build revolution.
But also I have been increasingly surprised people who are fucked by shit that companies like this do don't go do something about it. Guns are amazingly easy to get in the US and information is easy to find.
This is going to end up being random or an organized crime hit rather than some dude who did something based, because nothing ever good happens, but I won't be surprised at all when people who are increasingly kept down by assholes like this start taking matters into their own hands.
- I have been expecting terminally ill suicide bombers or spree shooters to hit insurance company offices (or even hospitals) for a long time and it keeps not happening, what are all the guns even for
  
  If you set up a fund to send suicidal people to DC to shoot themselves on the national mall, I think the gun shots echoing through the area every 28 seconds or however often it happens in the US would actually create some change.
- I'll take the W but I was thinking the same thing too that this is probably an organized crime hit. Sad to say your average american is less likely to take matters into their own hands because they want to "work hard" and become the boss themselves doing the oppressing.
  
  the detail that the shooter used a suppressed pistol supports this, harder to see an angry guy out for revenge taking the time and effort to use a suppressor because they're thinking about escaping the scene and want to draw less attention. certainly possible though
  
  Sad to say your average american is less likely to take matters into their own hands because they want to "work hard" and become the boss themselves doing the oppressing.
  :paulo-freire-shining:
  Death to America
- Americans rather blame others like themselves rather than all the CEOs and shareholders who benefit the most from fucking them over.
- I've always wondered the same thing - probably thousands of people have been fucked over by insurance companies, a lot of them are going to be terminally ill, it's shocking that this doesn't happen more often.
- So I’m not going to encourage adventurism please don’t do it. Dying on your own is not the way to build revolution.
  Well, yeah, but if you can't actually contribute to building it...

if you do adventurism we disavow
but if you do
don't
but IF you do.....
we disavow and you're not a real poster on hexbear, just a lurker.
so don't do it. But if you do....
we disavow
- They’re both me

Lmao
On mobile and I can't remember the name so I can't post the sicko cyclist emoji
- Bike Courier goes into NYPD precinct: "Officer, some guy knocked me out, threw me in a dumpster and stole my bike!"
  Cop: "Can you describe him?"
  Bike Courier: "Uh, white, bald, he had a weird tattoo on the back of his head."

When my sibling was dying of cancer and needed around the clock care because they couldn't walk, talk, or take care of themself in any capacity, insurance cut their nursing to 0 hours per week because they were "getting better" after previously refusing to pay for their hospital stay because they weren't getting better and basically sent them home to die
Anyway I'm gonna have a nice dinner in celebration of this news and in memory of my sibling
- Have a great meal, comrade ❣️

Thots and prayers!
No arrests have been made and police did not provide a description of the suspect.
Thank you Batman!

Definitely dont aim for Andrew Witty, CEO of UHG, the parent company to UHC, next. That would certainly be awful and immoral, not to mention illegal!

Look, when I'm terminal, whether that be young or old, you'd better believe I'll be more sympathetic to adventurism. Gonna get real into shooting as a hobby and curious about oil and healthcare executive meetings. Just some fanciful interests of a dying man, where's the harm in that?
- You know, if you own even one share of a publicly traded company's stock, you will be admitted into their annual shareholder's meeting. Just FYI.

Wow. I didn't know that. I just - you're telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agree or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I'm actually saddened to hear that. Thank you very much.
- He just died?

- Remember when everyone was posting the addresses of supreme court justices after they overturned Roe v. Wade?

this is so so awesome this is the best news ive heard in so long. we need things like this to happen way more often we need to be killing off a billionaire every week and healthcare is an excellent place to start. i think the world will be a better place when ceos know they can and will be capped in the street if they earn it. i hope the assassin leads a long fulfilling life and never gets caught, and i hope tons of people do exactly what he did.
- If any feds are reading this, I do not condone capping billionaires in the street or beating them to death with a stick.
- a functional government (
  ) would be executing these people for us but where government fails responsible citizens will eventually step in

Oh wow, this is the insurance I have with my job, and they are so nice to not cover my anti-depressants or my son's asthma medication. Good for him!

Which one of his thousands of victims or family members of victims might it have been?
- I'm Spartacus

I'm used to seeing only bad news I don't know what to do with this
- I have the urge to swirl a glass of wine around, and I don't even drink

The driver's description of the shooter sounds like something out of a movie. Black ski mask, suppressed pistol, 6'1" man.

what a wonderful story to start my day with. good things can happen!

From The Guardian. If the caller and the shooter turn out to be the same person then her mentioning of "a lack of coverage" might suggest that this was done by someone UnitedHealthcare fucked over.
- Regardless of the actual reason this shitheel got got, the social murder he’s presided over is why he deserved it.
- Basically, I don't know, a lack of coverage?
  :clueless:
- So that's only something like 30 million suspects on the fucked over list.
- you just know she is going to enjoy her brunches moving forward

Unlimited :gun-hubris: on every healthcare administrator and insurance demon.

LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO

This is good energy for my job interview

Shooting these parasites is self-defense

RFK Jr. working fast
- I'm just getting started.

Adventurism aside, all "healthcare" CEOs deserve much worse. RIP bozo, hope whoever did it is cool, and if they are, they're never found.

Direct Action

Death to America
- you're hearing it more and more

I'll forgive Biden for pardoning his son if he pardons the hero responsible for this

It's probably gonna be some anti-trans activists that thinks United's policy of gender care is too broad.
- Un critical support?

US gun crime finally gets it right

Fucking FINALLY thank you. Using all those guns for something good.

I don't know where the info came from, but on the wiki for the CEO it said he rode away on a public Citi bike. I was worried he'd be ID'd from the bike so that was a good move.
- For something like this, it would also make sense for he or an assistant to rewire a bike in advance
  
  Hmm good point I didn't think of that hah, yeah maybe it's possible to use a throwaway card and then hop off in a populated area away from anywhere personally identifying
  
  Could have always stole one.

Huge

wiki page just created it looks like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_(businessman)

Another cracker down!

Owned

Gun Violence's parents are going to be so proud that he's finally a contributing member of society like his more successful younger brother, Shoplifting.

The UnitedHealthcare stock is having a good day
Similar to how China's corruption/CEO executions help China's economy
- The ceo was over seeing a bunch of decisions that got uhc into public hot water and federal investigations for insider trading and other financial schemes. Wouldn't be surprised if it was just a hit to get him out of the seat
- Overpaid CEOs are objectively a drag on a company's performance.

Comrade Joe finally using the power to order "official acts" bestowed upon him by the supreme court?

no evidence whatsoever but i'm putting my chips down now that this was a hit by a business rival
- Begun, the Cruelty Squad wars have
- he wasn't doing a great job and the company's stock went up, what would this accomplish?
  
  iunno lol

Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time.
He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agree or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I’m actually saddened to hear that. I am saddened to hear that.
Thank you very much.

how about that

dudes rock

Cory Doctorow short story, "Radicalized".