Yesterday morning, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan.
- The story has some relevance to me because Humana dropped Medicare coverage in my area and I was forced to join United Healthcare. I am not optimistic.
Unfortunately, Brian is being vilified by Conservatives and Progressives, alike, so we will never really know what kind of man he was. I doubt that he was a saint ... but I don't believe he deserved to be gunned down in the street in New York.
I find it incredibly hypocritical that anti-2A, lefty Progressives like Taylor Lorenz are publicly celebrating this murder. Shouldn't Law Enforcement be paying her a visit for condoning and advocating violence??
Evidence suggests that the assassination was motivated by dishonest healthcare. Three of the spent, 9mm shell cases were inscribed with the words "Delay", "Deny", "Depose".
It is believed this is a reference to a 2010 book titled "Delay Deny Defend" that exposed dishonesty and corruption in the healthcare industry. Of course that is a plausible motive ... but it could also be a clever distraction from the real motive. The killer remains at large and NYPD remains incompetent.
www.amazon.com/Delay-Deny-Defend-insurance-companies-ebook/dp/B086Z2HGWM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10Q1MXNV6YSS3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DluJ8w2Tc7-yDLudjvrNI1AQSP8hfk7yKIQ1yLQTDZVY99i8T6x22XF2sAvxDdon.0m_7jpGk-5oD8_u4BJaz6Gn2DTVzWMweEcmwoNDGAdM&dib_tag=se&keywords=delay+deny+defend+book&qid=1733427215&sprefix=delay+denay%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1
Anthem
In the very best twist of Clown World irony, Anthem (Blue Cross, Blue Shield) announced that they would no longer pay for anesthesia if a surgical procedure took longer than they arbitrarily defined.
In other words, if ya wake up on the operating table with your intestines hanging out in indescribable, horrific pain, you have to pay for the additional anesthesia. Your middle-eastern Suni surgeon is arguing with your Christian-Lebanese nurse and your non-binary, shaved-head anesthesiologist is shoving a clipboard in your face for signature (a bloody thumbprint will do).
If ya can't pay, they'll shove a rawhide doggy chew toy in your mouth ... like back in the Civil War. For a small extra fee of $500 they'll let ya guzzle down $25 of Jack Daniels (like back in the Civil War).
This is Josef Mengele healthcare. I'm going to write my congress-people and demand that the FTC should force Blue Cross Blue Shield to change their name to Mengele Healthcare.
I do think Taylor Lorenz is a shallow, despicable POS ... but maybe she's on the right track this time ..