UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

The strange is undefeated

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I bet that's an employee who actually paid attention during their latest security training.

 

The photo of him smiling looks like it could be a nephew of Henry Winkler or Liam Gallagher.

 

He may have. They know he went into the park and haven’t said anything since. He may have called for Uber and slipped away thru the park.

Anyone who plans something like this doesn’t do the getaway on the fly, unless necessary. Given his calm demeanor on the sidewalk I’d guess he never ran or did anything in the park to give himself away.

As my football coach always said, though, the big eye don’t lie. Cameras will be a key for investigators.

 

People who do crimes of passion get caught because by definition, there is no plan.
Even in today's world, someone who is intentional and plans could get away.
If you are just plotting the deed and not what happens after, it's still a crime of passion, in my opinion.

 

This is the type of crime where the powers that be aren’t interested in waiting out a trial. He will be judged to be a threat to the life of a LEO and gunned down. It could well be true even.

 

Something, something … concentrates the mind … yadda yadda

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A possibly sense-making motive, perhaps.

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I cannot wrap my head around what it must be like to work for an insurance company in America.

If I see someone needs help, maybe a tree has fallen on them, do I ask for $10 to help? Do I refuse if they only have $5?

And, maybe this is a flawed logic, but if I’m that rich, I’m really good at taking money from other people. Maybe it’s a service provided, but in the end, I have their money. Is insurance really a way people should get this wealthy?

Fuck… these assholes at this insurance company seem to be at rot in hell level of karma. We cheer the kid who punches the bully in the nose… Fuck me… it goes against every modern religion to feel good about what happened, but… fuck me.

I mean, maybe the AI is to protect me from people making false claims. Maybe.

If people say education is broken in America, then healthcare is a smoldering heap on the side of the road.

 

To say education is broken in America is to say restaurants in America are broken.
No matter the chef, he can't cook a quality meal if all the ingredients he receives daily are spoiled, rancid, and unusable.

 

When you look at the relatively high salaries in America vis a vis other nations, take a moment and do the math on how much of your salary goes to SOME kind of insurance. Not anything that ADDS to your happiness, mind you; just something that's there to, at best, cushion bad stuff happening and keep the financial status quo. It's numbing.

And for these businesses to exist and thrive, the great majority of Americans, by definition, must spend tens of thousands MORE on the insurance than they would spend, on average, to just suck it up and deal with the bad stuff happening.

Health insurance
Home insurance
Flood insurance (separate, of course)
Windstorm insurance (separate, of course)
Auto insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Long-term care insurance
Business insurance
Credit insurance
Travel insurance
Pet insurance
Mail insurance (when you send gifts and packages, etc.)
Identity theft "protection"
Anti-virus "protection" for your computer.

 

UHC told my neurologist I needed to receive my infusions last spring in the hospital despite my doctor wanting to do them outpatient to save money.

So I stayed five nights in the hospital to do them.

Three months later they refused to pay for one of the five infusions because they deemed the hospital stay unnecessary.

Each infusion was $20,000.

I’ve been fighting it for eight months. My wife went to law school with a damn good lawyer who fights the insurance companies. She’s taken it on cheap so we’re hopeful. She speaks of health insurance companies like they are the plague.