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Moderators delete Reddit thread as doctors torch dead UnitedHealthcare CEO (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

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[–] 678 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

It's kinda hilarious watching billionaire owned media try to suppress the fact that absolutely no one feels bad for the CEO. The same thing happened when some billionaires decided to visit the Titanic, and after the Trump assassination attempt. The memes afterwards were top notch

Everyone is so fed up with this country and the shit is this close 🤏🏼 to the fan

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  • [–] 315 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I'm still absolutely flabbergasted at how quickly we all moved on from Trump literally getting clipped in an attempt on his life.

    They tried to muster some outrage and solidarity, but most of us just shrugged and went, "Damn. Oh well, maybe next time."

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  • [–] 171 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then the next time came, and it was even more disappointing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 171 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What was it the IRA told Thatcher? "You have to be lucky every single time. We only have to be lucky once."

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    He didnt get clipped. He cut his hand on glass, on the ground, and didnt realize it, then transfered the blood to his head. Thats why his ear was miraculously fully recovered like a week later when he was caught on camera without bandages.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No, it was just his superior genetics that allowed him to heal quicker than a normal person would.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting. Got a source for that?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    nothing besides the picture of him with blood on the side of his head with no visible injury, and another one with a bandage off a little after a week after the shooting with not a single sign of injury (ears dont heal that fast), and the fact that he absolutely refused to let anyone see his wound or the medical records.

    Trump is an opportunistic aggrandizemer.

    If he legitimately got even the slightest injury, he would have been ripping the bandage off 15 times a day and pointing at it and screaming about what the "evil woke liberal mob" did to him. And he didnt.

    he barely acknowledge it at all after a few days. Does that sound like the Trump you know? The trump that ruminates and obsesses for years, even decades over perceived and imagined slights? That constantly comments on them, regardless of relevance to the topic at hand?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    My guess is that a piece of teleprompter glass grazed an old man's ear. Ears are known to be bloody, moreso on older people. But there's no way in fucking hell he actually took a bullet, he wouldn't even have that ear.

    So yeah, your assessment fits.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The sympathy lasted two days. I was expecting maybe a week.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    flabbergasted in a good way?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    You know I'm honestly not sure. Mostly good I think?

    Sidestepping the issue entirely of the act itself - strictly speaking more about the news cycle around it. I don't know that it needed much more extensive, exhausting coverage. Just given the nature of the news currently, you gotta admit, surprising right? I'm not even trying to imply any sort of conspiracy about why it wasn't more popular. I'm just saying, I think news cycle would've latched on harder if they could have, but the public gagged and said no thanks, we're simply not interested, causing them to shift focus.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Its also hilarious that lemmy.world admins/mods did the same thing with early threads about this yesterday, nuking individual comments celebrating Thompson's death and 24 hr instance wide banning the users that made those comments, then within 2 hrs they undid the bans, and by today seem to have just given up trying.

    https://lemmy.zip/post/27427367

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I mean it's pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday. It's not like the more outspoken people were in the minority in their feelings.

    Even the most vile MAGAs have probably been screwed over by insurance companies, or at the very least had to spend valuable hours of their life fighting for something they should have already had.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday.

    Brought to you by my being awake when I don't want to be:

    Remember, remember!
The fourth of December,
A U-H-C CEO shot;
I know of no reason
Why the U-H-C season
Should ever be forgot!
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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The US mocked Trump for being shot at, then failed to keep him from being elected again.

    Pretty good sign that people are not going to direct that anger towards actually fixing the problems.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    My empathy for America was lost decades ago when literal children were gunned down in Sandy Hook.

    We didn't collectively mourn as a nation and do anything. Instead, some went to defend guns. Others went to blame the victims, the parents who are literally holding their lifeless child in their hands.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Lol, I appreciate that final line in your comment. So many of us were that close back in 2020... Now things are slated to be worse, and I think I speak for at least millions of Americans when I say we are just fucking over it.

    When we've tossed out any semblance of justice in our country at the highest levels, literally ruling that the president is immune from all prosecution (you know, like a fucking king), then asshole corpos that indirectly murder countless people getting gunned down doesn't exactly concern us. In fact, this sort of thing genuinely seems more just than what our highest courts are allowing.

    Shit is fucked up in this country, and I don't think many of us want to pretend otherwise any longer. I'm not advocating violence, but I definitely don't think I'll lose sleep over this situation.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the only thing stopping people from posting even worse inflammatory shit about it is not wanting to show up on an FBI watchlist or something later on.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think it makes more sense to use the 🤏 emoji in that context, rather than the Italian gesture.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Buttah we'reah theese aclosa...! 🤌🏼

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I disagree. I think it just hit it. Think about how shooters crave noteriaty. Think of how this assain is seen as a hero. No. This is just the beginning.

    I think too many people saw this as a kind of justice that the courts have never and will never provide.

    I don't advocate violence. I also don't think this has a different outcome.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I actually agree (with you.) This could be the start of a movement.

    Hopefully this hero is protected and makes a clean escape. The response from law enforcement is disproportionate because it was a rich person that died instead of someone like us.

    Remember, they wouldn't bat an eye if any of us were killed in this manner. It happens all the time and goes unsolved all the time because law enforcement primarily exists to protect rich people.

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