It’s a good reminder that the people who oppress us have names and addresses.
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Is it bad that I read that last section in the super fast barely intelligible voice they use in medication ads?
Today I decided to collect a small mountain of Facebook posts of people who had claims denied by United Healthcare prior to 2024. I’m not shocked but also I am.
And we know their names and surnames, especially for CEOs.
Luckily, bullets outnumber evil CEOs.
Let me see the list of Americans dead because they were denied coverage. Then I’ll care!
Frankly my guy no one cares if a person like you cares.
You do lol
Those who profit from the status quo are the same who could have that information consolidated for review. They also know that maintaining your apathy is central to their business model.
If they have created a system by which they can profit immensely, but that profit could be taken away by the masses at anytime, the last thing they will do is enable you to care.
Your comment shows that they have been successful in tricking you into not only not caring, but actually advocating against your own interests.
Not caring about their CEO being shot? lol brainwashed!
They should unironically do this (I suppose they would need the family’s permission). But a Senator could make quite a name for themselves by reading off the names of Americans who have died due to being denied coverage.
On the other hand, given the current climate, they’d probably end up getting harassed by red hats so maybe not.
Savages, they don’t deserve any better!
Someone mentioned on Bluesky yesterday that they killed 2100 people a day on average denying people care.
I don’t doubt it!
I collected an absolute mountain of screenshots from Facebook today of denied claims from them which are super shocking even though I know it’s not shocking.
I’m out of the loop. Who’s dead?
UnitedHealthcare CEO
Thanks.
This might be the most accurate version of the original scene done in real life.
Over 100 Americans have died from diabetes since this guy was shot. Where are the headlines for all of them? Does the fact that they were murdered by a system instead of an individual make their deaths less noteworthy?
I mean to be fair we’re all here clicking on this one to cheer at the guy. News organizations are going to run stories that get them clicks. While we may consider his death important and noteworthy, none of us are going to click and read an article about how Joe Random died from his heart failure or diabetes.
Maybe not, but we absolutely click on an article detailing just what the fuck e.g. the government is actually going to do about it.
Also, there’s something like an average of 47 gun deaths per day (not sure if this site is including suicides, if it is then it’s roughly half without it). But CEOs matter more than Average Joe.
Everyone is losing their minds because they’re afraid there’ll be a run on popcorn, not because anyone will miss a waste of space healthcare CEO.
If people don’t feel like we can make things better with negotiation, this is where it goes. I’m not up for pretending I didn’t see this coming.
This may be good time to be an experienced professional body guard, because there’s a lot of healthcare CEOs left and no way was the alleged attacker (I didn’t see shit!) the only person they’ve hurt.
No one is losing their minds. Most are quite satisfied with the news
Tell that to the police who decided they actually are going to try this time to find the killer. Tell that to the news juicing the story. They care and they will use your money to do something about it.
Then I advise you stop watching their bullshit news network and find other sources for news. Maybe more grassroots media.
Pretending people don’t watch or shouldn’t watch mainstream media doesn’t change what I said. Also, alot of presumptions to assume I don’t have good trustable news sources (not these guys for sure).
Point is, people watch it and they are being fed a juiced up story and worth recognizing that so that you can continue to operate on the same reality as everyone else. At least enough to not be surprised.
Good thing they are out of practice then /s
The cops and their $10K reward? TDGAF.
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This is just another proof that we live in a capitalist dystopia. Only rich lives matter.
Seems like its the other way around on here. Honestly, the insurance system should just change to universal health care and if wealthy people aren’t content they could just buy an extra insurance on top or pay themselves while still contributing to public health. The system is at fault, not a replaceable CEO. Because while he might be replaceable for the company, he sure still had a family, friends and nothing will change now
The “replaceable CEO” is part of the reason the system is broken in the first place.
Most humans and human work are inherently replaceable. Even great minds that have novel ideas. At some point someone else will come up with the same idea. Even US Presidents are. On a systematic level everyone is. I just wanted to highlight that the CEO, while head of operations of a company, is only lended this power and not really in charge. I think humans (not on a personal level) are inherently replaceable sadly but I don’t think any system changes this
If wealthy people aren’t content, they can improve the system for everyone.
Perhaps, wishful thinking I know… But perhaps, this will give the next CEO some slight pause when considering screwing over millions of people for the financial gain of already rich people. PERHAPS, now that there’s a tangible consequence for being a greedy murderous asshat, they’ll think twice… Probably not, but I can hope.
Yikes, can we not glorify the Joker? This is some cringe incel level stuff.
I mean this meme template is old as a donkey, we’re not “glorifying” the joker. Just so happens the meme is fittingly dark. A perfect 5/7 meme
Nowadays nobody knows what a perfect 5/7 means.
Even if it’s with rice?
skill issue
Wanna know how I got these downvotes?
Welcome to Lemmy. It’s cringe incel level stuff all the way down.
Well, go on back to reddit lol
Concern trolling is some cring incel level stuff.
While I wasn’t personally concerned (Joker was amazing in Dark Knight, a bad dude who is also worthy of being in memes)…
@[email protected] assuming you were concern posting not concern trolling
I have no idea what you’re trying to say, tbh.
This guy doesn’t live in a society
You get what you deserve.
I agree that glorifying him is an absolute incel take, but like the other commenter said, this is actually an appropriate use for this template. This isn’t glorifying him or anything.
Yes it is. This is a cringe “we live in a society” memes rebranded with a current event.
Where the Joker excels is pointing out horrifying issues within our society. This is, in fact, one of those situations. It isn’t saying it’s good that the CEO was murdered, rather pointing out that society at large doesn’t care if it’s poor people who die by the millions. One CEO and it’s the most important thing happening. If this amount of effort and money went towards helping poor people then their issues would be solved, but instead we’re wasting it talking about one rich bastard only.
No, the Joker doesn’t. We used to mock “we live in a society” memes. This is that.
That was a different Joker
As the other comment says, different joker. Also, yeah a lot of its stupid and cringy. It all depends on the author and the context. As with all art though, it’s a tool for the author to send a message. Almost every hero and villain is a vessel for the author to talk through. They are making art and have something to say. You aren’t supposed to like the Joker, but he is supposed to carry a message still. That message is usually that our society is inhumane and flawed and treats people horribly.
My wife always has the good morning America shit on in the morning and they didn’t say a damn thing today about the shooting. I wonder if the media billionaires have told their faces not to talk about this anymore.
I don’t think Good Morning America is that kind of show… It has been over a decade since I have watched broadcast TV so maybe I’m wrong, but I always remember that show as being one of those super positive, bubbly, morning shows that are all human interest stories and fluff? They’re not going to talk about dark shit like that unless it’ s like… 9/11 level. And at that point, they’d just cut to breaking news.
Joker isn’t a real person, he cannot hurt you.
“Yikes”
Go back to Reddit.
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KillKeo means plan
Thank you for getting my reference.
This is stupid because I have not seen one comment from anyone other than other CEOs that is not celebrating his death.
Probably not on Lemmy but media did
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Which one isn’t?
Well… not OWNED, but fully funded by.
I’m out of the loop, who died now?
The CEO of United Healthcare was shot the other day
Ty
That’s the point. You did it. You discovered the discrepancy. No one cares and Infact we are celebrating. However the police are pumping money into mass manhunt, news is juicing the story nonstop. 10k reward for info. Obviously the powers that be care and care a lot that a CEO got shot. You don’t. I don’t. And yet by time it’s over, hundreds of thousands of dollars will have been spent in man-hours hunting this guy down. An amount of money that would be ridiculous if you or I got shot. No one would care. But a CEO? nYPD pulling out every stop they got.
why do I feel like flooding the reward info line with false information like we always do with the abortion manhunt forms.
10k reward for info
Which is frankly hilarious. UnitedHealthCare group grossed $90 billion in the last 12 months and they are offering only a $10,000 reward for help finding the assassin. I bet their next CEO gets 10 to 100 times that much in just a signing bonus.
They probably spent 2mil on researching what amount of money would be enough to engage people without having to give poors a chance at real money.
They even cut corners when offering rewards.
10k reward for info.
Isn’t that standard for info on a murder? I feel like I’ve heard this before. Maybe it’s usually “up to” 10k. Idk.
One death is a tragedy, 16m deaths is a statistic.
16m deaths is a profit margin
16M deathllars
One ceo death is a targeted assassination. Multiple ceo deaths is a revolution.
Did something happen? Do I want to know?
Someone assassinated the CEO of an American health insurance company with a silenced pistol after an investors meeting. Apparently the company is famous for turning down people’s requests for treatment while the guy had a yearly salary in the
undredstens of millions.They deny 37% of all claims, and he proposed that they deny payment of anesthesia during surgery if it lasts longer than an arbitrary number he pulled out of his ass.
I don’t know if he proposed that, but the headlines have been for Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia over a certain time, not United Healthcare. Both shit companies though, fuck em.
“Delay” and “Depose” were apparently written on the shell casings.
“Delay. Deny. Defend.” is a common health insurance company mantra about denying service long enough that people die so the company doesn’t have to pay for the Healthcare they’re entitled to.
Insurance pre-authorization for medical care should be outlawed. If a doctor orders a procedure, the insurance company shouldn’t be allowed to say “no.” But they are because our system is super fucked.
The revolution has begun.
cringe
Nothing has begun because there isn’t enough of you Leftists with guns or training. All y’all do is complain on the internet. This was one gun owning dude who knows how to procure a suppressor, both of which I’m 100% sure you don’t know how to do yourself nor does 75% of the rest of us left leaning voters
Lot of certainty in this comment without much knowledge
Lots of stupidity given the fact that a rapist criminal insurrectionist is soon in power and not a single act of armed protest from the left has happened, will happen, or ever happen in the future.
Don’t be a wet blanket. Train your friends and family. Got money? You know what to get everyone for Christmas!
