UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

A former bodyguard of the late UnitedHealthcare CEO was dumbfounded by the lack of security for Brian Thompson after he was killed in a fatal shooting, sparking a manhunt in New York City.
“It was baffling, to be honest with you. You know, you get at somebody in the No. 1 health care organization in the United States of America, who is a corporate executive, a high-ranking one, as a matter of fact, just sitting on the board of directors, and he has no protection around him, that is just baffling,” Philip Klein said during his Thursday night appearance on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live.”

The fact that this guy had a prior bodyguard should tell you something. Just because you are in business shouldn't mean you need a bodyguard unless you are in the business of screwing people over. I went to high school with a guy who is the manger of a grocery store. He doesn't have a body guard. A buddy owns a series of car washes and storage units. He doesn't have a body guard. My dentist doesn't have a bodyguard.

 

My late father was a CEO of a a Fortune 500 company in the '70s and early '80s. He never had a bodyguard.

 

Come on, kid, don't fool around. Just let your hand drop to your side and the gun slip out. Everyone will still think you've got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike. So walk out of the place real fast, but you don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the eye, hut don't look away either. They're gonna be scared of you, believe me, so don't worry about nothing.

 

Skippin to the end. Not because I don't care. I do and am so sorry to read so many horror stories. Hoping for the best for everyone. Three things I want to post:

First: Some manufacturers offer good discount that don't require the intrusive applications they used to ask for in the past. The search terms for these are Name of Drug/ discount card/activate. When you go to the page, you will see a box, usually in the upper right of the screen. It is a link to activate a discount card that you may have been given vt your doctor. There will be a link at that page offering to register you even if you don't have a card. Click on it, register, and they will email you an acticated card to print out and take to your pharmacy. I get Eliquis of 10.00 a month and Jardience for 20.00 a month using these. Had I continued on Ozempic, it would have been 25.00 a month. There are two catches: 1. You ha e to get it in three month increments, 1his only applies to those who have commercial insurance.

Second: Speaking of Jardience, my first cardiologist was a sadistic jackass who got a weird thrill out of making me feel so demoralized, I was beginning to wonder if the clinic had a betting pool on my death. His favorite form o verbal abuse was, "I'd prescribe this but you'd never be able to afford it." After my second dance with CHF, I was assigned a nurse practitioner wjo told me how "chill" she was. It's kind of like "nice" and "smart." If people have to tell you they have these qualities, they usually don't. Long story short - Too late!*- After a series of lies and a half hour tanturm because a doctor at a hosptial DARED to contradict her, my birthday present to myself was to fire that clown show.

Which brings me to my third point and a bit of virtue signaling: When it comes to the medicaal people I have encountered over the past four years, I have far more to be grateful for than to be angry about. Still, the things that deserve my ire are not small matters. The people I see now help me pull myself out of near renal failure caused vt reckless overmedication and they are working with me to save my sight. So should I go ut and shoot Nurse Wretched, Doctor Bastard, and their bosses, the Frist Family? Should I even wish them ill or be gleeful when karma does catch up with them? Should I feel any joy that someone in the health care field was gunned down even if his actions are likely to have caused the deaths of people in his care?

No, no, and no.

Even though I spent enough time working in public consumer/poverty legal outreach and can pull favors that would lead to lawsuits and the ruin of people wgo have hurt me, it would take a toll that makes the toll on me not worth it. There are still things I want to do. I want to write things that make people laugh. (De;iberately.) I want to make things that make people feel good about themselves. I feel called to the ministry. I can't do that if I am busy with lawsuits less stalking and hurting those people. They don't get a pass. I am still angry. I am giving myself a pass to move on from this,


*TM Clue: The Movie (1985)

 

If it turns out that this wasn’t over some insured person being mad about a denied claim and is something else, it’s going to be interesting to watch this country breathe a collective “well, shit.”

 

I dunno. There is certainly a greater-than-zero number of people who won't be sad to see an insider-trading perpetrator face some sort of accountability. Of course, if it's the estranged wife, well, that's a different conversation entirely.

 

The catharsis is barely related to the murder, and by now may not be at all. That’s just the catalyst. Otherwise I can wait a day and there will be a murder within a five mile radius of where I sit parked downtown. Nobody outside of the victim’s inner circle will give a shit.

The murder is not the interesting part.

 

Seth Trueger (@mdaware.org)

 

One of my best friends in DC is friends with a guy who works for the company and was there that day. Listening to second-hand stories about that day was weird.

 

Did the turkeys fly up into the tree?

 

They go to roost at night and sleep in the trees.

 

I kept hearing noises and eventually spotted them. They're skittish as hell, you seldom get a chance to observe them unless you're actually still hunting for turkey and calling them in.