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Originally Posted by yeahman
Dude, open a doctors bill, look at what they are charging, those fucks wouldn’t give you an aspirin without insurance.
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Originally Posted by yeahman
Dude, open a doctors bill, look at what they are charging, those fucks wouldn’t give you an aspirin without insurance.
The Guardian is reliably progressive/against the corrosive effects of late stage capitalism, but even they didn't choose to hint that "just maybe, asshole denials of coverage have consequences" in their coverage of this. A bridge too far?
and charge $300 I've seen that billQuote:
Originally Posted by Cono Este
Notes written on the bullet casings would indicate this is a personal vendetta versus a professional hit.
fact
Murder,,is definetly not ok, but there are plenty of fucking scum bags out there this world won’t miss.
Karma is a bitch, and it astounds me how some think they can just fuck people over, spoil their fat wives, fake friends and stupid children with gigantic bonuses, fuck up the lift lines and then freely, and safely walk amongst us.
Pucker factor is high at the club these holidays.
bless your heart
From the NYT via the Guardian:
<i>Brian Thompson’s sister-in-law Elena Reveiz told the New York Times she was still processing the news of Thompson’s death.
“He was a good person, and I am so sad,” Reveiz said, adding that Thompson was a good father to his two children. Reveiz said she was on her way to be with their family.<i>
I mean...UHC's profit margins come from denying coverage, sometimes (often?) against the terms of the contract. She may need to reassess her opinion of his goodness.
Are you talking about a doctor’s bill or the facility’s bill? There’s a huge markup on consumable items, drugs and implants/devices and that goes to pay the people providing your care with the exception of doctors. Yes a lot of it may go to overpaid administrators but the rest of us healthcare professionals aren’t getting rich. Physicians usually bill separately and it’s for a visit or procedure not drugs or consumable items.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cono Este
Both facilities and physicians will give care without insurance if it’s an emergency or you’re self paid.
I’m not sure what this has to do with health insurance executives trying to maximize profits at the expense of plan participants getting the care they need.
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Maybe start a go-fund-me to help with e-bike charging?:fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by tang
The tragedy! Who’s going to mentor those kids to grow up to be excessively paid corporate health claims deniers?
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Originally Posted by dan_pdx
“Rise up and take the power back, It's time the fat cats had a heart attack, You know that their time's coming to an end, We have to unify and watch our flag ascend” -Muse
I saw a post speculating that there may have been fears that he was going to turn and be an informant about insider trading. Pure speculation as far as I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
Come on man, kids having their father murdered is fucked up. Kids don't get to choose their parents.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Nuclear Option
yeah, i agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
i don’t have to mourn the guy but congress should fix these health care laws, not vigilantes. they should also maybe try to keep guns out of dangerous peoples hands?
anyway, this dude was the fourth highest paid employee there. a big cog in a bigger and more problematic machine.
between the two attempted trump assassinations and this shit we have reached a new level of violence.
What’s more pro than putting in the effort to make it look like it was a random dude with a personal vendetta?Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
This is just awesome.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/healt...its/index.html
Found a pic of the guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by tang
Attachment 506497
The guy wasn't a decent pro. I don't think he was a rookie pro either.Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
He used way too many shots, didn't wear gloves, it was too public, his aim was too clumsy and the e bike get away was too trace able.
My guess is he was a really pissed guy with inside knowledge that practiced with a suppressed pistol and sub ammo for a few months at most.
Easy to cynically dehumanize people in these situations, but I agree, he has kids and certainly didn't deserve to die this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
That said, insurance companies are literally in the business of dehumanizing entire populations.
United healthcare's business model is to fuck over anyone who doesn't have the leverage to fight back. They are absolutely notorious for selling ghost insurance across undersupplied markets. They use bogus lists of in network providers to create a maze to confuse patients and bamboozle state regulators. It's a deliberate shell game.
On the flip side, United Healthcare uses the ghost network to fuck over the small providers who suffer with some of the industry's worst reimbursement rates. Providers are shown the bogus network and told there's oversupply and reimbursements wont go up. Imho, UHC thrives in red states that are hostile to Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid. They genuinely seem to be out to discredit the entire program and take advantage of the non existent oversight. UHC leadership is evil, plain and simple. They make a fat living off of lies, indifference and casual cruelty. That guy on the pavement was a vulture who was pecking the dying healthcare system to death in the hope that Medicare and Medicaid get privatized and he'll get to take a slice of that too.
Dude you work in health care insurance and you think the doctor gets the money charged for that overpriced aspirin??Quote:
Originally Posted by Cono Este
The flip side of that story is that the insurance company is going to use the same billable hour rates for procedures that Medicare does, to prevent unscrupulous Anesthesiologists from padding their bottom line.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
in a country that has been at war for ever there are probably lots of people who were taught the skills to do the job and apparently you can just pickup an E-bike on any street cornerQuote:
Originally Posted by exsparky
just don't ask them to do Biathalon
This thread has me reminiscing of [emoji637][emoji639]yr old me punching CD cases in my bedroom until my knuckles bled, blasting Rage Against the Machine.
If you’re getting a boner over this murder you got worms fer brains.
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RE: Anesthesia...
Why does a mallet cost so much?
https://youtu.be/6qh4-oZ8vAw
The memes in that Bluesky thread are on point.
I have never got a bill but I live in a furin country altho they will charge extra for crutches so I bring my own ehQuote:
Originally Posted by Cono Este
Now wondering if those words were written on the manually ejected bullets or on the fired casings.Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
If so, No gun jamming, shooter wanted the words readable and stacked them in the clip like that.
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He was using sub sonic ammo that wasn't ejecting normally, so he was racking after every shot. It sounds like the words were written on the cases for whatever reason.
More may have been written and they didn't release, or obscured by the firing
The real tell for me is the leg shot. It didn't look like bad aim, it looked intentional. He wanted him to experience a few moments of terror before the lights went out. From that range a real pro would have made two taps to the back of the head and been done.Quote:
Originally Posted by exsparky
I'm certainly not trying to defend UHC or any professional decisions Thompson may have made. Reveling in the grief of children is just a bridge too far for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
I'm sure Joachim von Ribbentrop's kids were sad when he was hanged. I guess he got a fair trial. Maybe Willy Messerschmidt is a better comparo, but the problem is what UHC is doing is de facto legal. So, we are gonna see shit like this happen, probably much more often.
Yeah, gangsters have kids too. So did Stalin and Mao.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Man, publishers will do anything to drum up lagging book sales.....
lol, well playedQuote:
Originally Posted by heckacali
Just sayin, if karma is real, then both the shooter and the victim are going to be reincarnated as intestinal parasites in the same pig's colon. One used a pistol and the other did his killing with an algorithm.
E-bike biathlon would be fun as fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er