CEO of United Healthcare gunned down in midtown Manhattan

[Aloha Hoosier]

Penn condemns professor’s support for alumnus charged with killing CEO

“Her comments regarding the shooting of Brian Thompson in New York City were antithetical to the values of both the School of Arts and Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania,” Kallberg wrote in the statement.

www.thedp.com

 

[DANC]

I find all the media now coming out in the wake of this murder regarding insurance denials, etc. pretty troublesome. Given the timing, I feel a whole lot of people are going to feel this murderer was justified in doing what he did. Some people are already claiming his action single-handedly changed the anesthesia policy of the company.

This is going to incentivize more of these killings. People like Taylor Lorenz, et al. are not only acting morally grotesquely, they are acting very, very irresponsibly.

Here's hoping we aren't facing a recession anytime soon.

Maybe the FBI will switch their focus from Catholic and parents groups to these types of domestic terrorists.

Start with a list of Ivy League graduates.

 

[BadWakeboarder]

Penn condemns professor’s support for alumnus charged with killing CEO

“Her comments regarding the shooting of Brian Thompson in New York City were antithetical to the values of both the School of Arts and Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania,” Kallberg wrote in the statement.

www.thedp.com

So fire her

 

[BradStevens]

Leftism is the most violent cause on earth

Counter re this example:

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/

Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of the UnitedHealthCare CEO​

The right-wing media (starting, I believe, with the New York Post) has dubbed him an "anti-capitalist," despite no evidence of that. Before his Goodreads page went private, you could see that on his list of books he'd read were drivel by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and that on his list of books he was planning on reading soon was Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged--pretty standard fare for a bright young "tech" person. As one NYT opinion writer, Michelle Goldberg, observed, Mangione is no "leftist; he appears to have had pretty typical heterodox podcast guy politics." (His "manifesto" makes clear that this is specifically about the health insurance industry, not capitalism.) Goldberg made some other apt observations about what this whole incident has revealed:

A huge number of people feel — with good reason — that they’ve been personally injured by the insurance industry, and by coverage decisions that seem highly arbitrary, impenetrable and unfair. So people feel like Mangione’s avenged them....
Whenever I’ve had a health scare, or am waiting for the results of routine tests like mammograms, I tend to be as panicked about all the potential paperwork as about, you know, dying. And the thing is, these companies are purely extractive. Relative to a single-payer system, they create no value whatsoever....
I think the reaction to the assassination shows there is a political opportunity for anyone who can harness all this free-floating fury toward the health care industry and plutocracy more broadly. Right now it has nowhere productive to go.

If only Clinton and the Democratic Party hadn't sabotaged Bernie Sanders in 2016....

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

Oh, look at that... the killer wasn't even a member under UHC

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing wasn’t a client of the insurer: Police

UnitedHealthcare is the largest U.S. health insurer.

www.syracuse.com

 

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

When did John Brown go crazy? Eric Rudolph? This preacher:



Vigilantism do cost.



It’s all in the game, though, right?




Hard to see the line when you’re standing on it.

 

[dbmhoosier]

Will be essentially the same jury Trump had. All radical leftists.

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

Will be essentially the same jury Trump had. All radical leftists.

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Yeah, Trump's lawyers are so incompetent they would allow all "radical leftists" on the jury. No way you are a lawyer.