Running Shooting Thread 2024

They wanted to send my old boss to our intern’s father for major shoulder surgery.

Intern’s father is not an orthopedist. He’s an ER physician.

 

Lot easier than Jigsaw’s plan in Saw VI.

 

I feel for the detectives on this one. Imagine having to ask "Who would want to kill the CEO of UnitedHealthCare?"

The suspect list is going to be in the millions.

 

At this moment, 5.4K comments already in the Yahoo's news post.

And they are not pretty.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York City, police say; manhunt underway for attacker

 

"Well, I'm sure he didn't have an enemy in the world...."

 

Over 11,000 comments now and it’s close to unanimous slamming our so-called healthcare system.

 

UHC can be trash, but that's not on United. When a company negotiates for their employee health care, the company and UHC negotiates what will be covered, what the copays are, and what the deductibles may be. The final cost to the company depends on how those things are set. If the company is trying to keep their employee deductions for insurance low, they do it by agreeing to higher deductables, or that certain specialists are not covered, etc. Then the employee's kid gets in a car wreck and they find out during his rehab that their insurance only covers two visits with a speech therapist in a year or something similar. There are a lot of similar details that the employee won't know about until they find out the hard way, because few people read the policy in that much detail or compare to see what changed since the last open enrollment.

It's as comprehensive as the employer and employee is willing to pay for. Lord knows I despise health care insurers, but that's how it works.

 

I wonder if he had good insurance.

 

My wife’s employer had a big insurance meeting and loudly crowed that they had really negotiated a good deal with only a 6% increase for employees each month. Everyone had the general consensus that it was a good deal for the employer because their deductibles are already high.

 

Yeah, that usually means that cuts were made somewhere less visible.

 

But there's a concept of a plan! [/crossthread]