UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

I don't completely know. Like I said, I get it. That's how it works. My big beef is apparently they didn't tell anyone. Had they said sometime prior to now "These are your options" then I wouldn't beef. Even if they said, "We took you premium through January but won't renew after that" then that would be understandable.

 

I get why people posted comments like this, but there was some cringe-worthy stuff posted on this thread. I don't mean to single you out. I didn't read a lot of the first few pages at the time, so I was going back through. I'm as critical of the horrible stuff health insurance companies pull as anybody, but this was still a guy murdered in the street.

 

I understand your sentiment, but when you watch your mother spend countless hours on the phone in recent months dealing with a health-insurance company denying further treatment on her husband, I believe it's fair to say that my personal reservoir of sympathy for people like insurance executives who ride the gravy train to riches off the teat of human misery has long since emptied. Was the murder wrong? Yes. Do I have sympathy? No. Nor will I have any.

There is a scene in "The Crown" that sort of sums up where I am on this sort of thing, one in which the Queen laments to Billy Graham about being unable to forgive Edward VIII for his deep Nazi connections. It is suggested to her that with an inability to forgive Edward -- even though her role as head of the Church of England dictates that she must forgive -- instead, she must ask for forgiveness for herself. I'm not going to reach a place of peace regarding people who have done untold damage and reaped windfalls at the expense of others. Thus, I can only ask for forgiveness for myself, for my inability to look past the pain wreaked by a damaging apparatus of which this executive was a leader and profiteer, and for my personal emotion that can best be described as callous indifference.

 

Hey, gollydammit, Free Dan Whitman!, OK? ...
Them Over There say he wants in on our thread!!!

 

Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts — ProPublica

 

I understand and share the hatred of what insurance companies do, but it was still a guy being murdered.

Sadly, I'm not at all surprised by anything in that story. I always assume any doctor hired by an insurance company will ignore what is medically sound and recommend the least amount of coverage.

 

There are doctors who are professional witnesses, and if their assessments consistently favor the insurance company's position, they'll be a paid witness again. And again. Even if they call themselves medical consultants or whatever. Lawyers know how to make that work.

 

Attorney Concannon: "That is correct, you are being paid to be here?"
Doctor witness: "Just as you are, sir."

Great movie. Love hearing James Mason speak.

 

Great performance by later career Newman.