The CEO of UnitedHealth was fatally shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in what police say was a targeted attack.
Brian Thompson, 50, was at the hotel at around 6:46 a.m. when a masked man fired at the CEO and fled eastbound off of 6th Avenue, police sources told The Post.
Thomas was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
(New York Post)
Posted by Apollo_the_G0D
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as the divide between those who have and those who have not, this will be happening more frequently.
Layoff person gone AWOL?
Most likely family member of someone was denied coverage for a procedure and then died
They should make guns illegal to posses in the city. Then stuff like this would NEVER happen.
As more people struggle with health costs, living costs, this may happen more. Or it could be a one time event.
Today was their investor day and he was about to give a big press conference.
This is like that GTA5 mission where you can assassinate CEOs to make a ton of money in the stock market
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So the healthcare affordability issues are getting crazy, cannot increase profit 10% every year if earnings don’t follow suit. Only the rich can be treated in USA now aye?
Unfortunately they took him to an out of network hospital which was bad luck for him.
Can you imagine trying to narrow down the suspect list?
Healthcare is one of the most corrupt industries. 🙃🙂🙃🙂
That’s what happens when people pay and the system denies coverage. With all that money scammed from the people, he should have been able to have security guards.
It was Colonel Mustard
France 1780-1800 has entered the chat.
hard to extend sympathy when so many middle to low class Americans are struggling with healthcare and this dude made nearly $10 million a year to basically help keep affordable healthcare at bay.
Surprised you don’t hear about stuff like this more often.
Spouse is married no kids. All they have is their partner. Work hard, has insurance.
Something happens – Oh we dont’ cover that test! Oh we don’t cover that procedure!
18 months later – spouse dies. Everyone said “Could have done something sooner it would have been ok!”
That person’s going to be firmly in the “nothing left to lose” mindset.
Sucks to suck. Hell will welcome it’s new guest.
oh well.
So, was this person about to “ok” a revolutionary new “cure” or treatment for cancer or something?
Probably had someone close to them fucked over by the insurance company.
Ooh, ooh! Do the CEO of _______ next!
I assume it was targeted – Rick Scott, I think, was one of the former CEO’s – the company had defrauded us (Taxpayers – as well as investors) for the largest fine in US History.
NO WAY I approve of such.
I have been telling my wife lately – what this country needs is for a large % just go “go on strike” to do nothing, spend nothing (or little) and have protests UNTIL UNIVERSAL AND INEXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE IS LAW.
But we won’t do it – because Americans aren’t free – they are sheep led to the corporate slaughterhouse. We let Corporations lower our life spans so we are worse than most decent countries on the planet – by a LOT.
Things will never change by electing clowns. They definitely won’t change even by electing 1/2 decent people if Congress has enough corporate interests.
I don’t think this will happen. But it should. Oh, I’m on the Far Left. That means progressive in perhaps the French or Danish way (I’d be a moderate or even on the Right there).
His insurance claim probably got denied….
Seeing the amount of ‘disgruntled customer’ comments on here has me 100% convinced this comment section is bots. How would an average customer know where a CEO of a major company was going to be, and when, with enough certainty to carry out an assassination and escape successfully?
I wonder if premiums will go down after this
Shooter used a silencer… this seems like a calculated attack from some higher force
Reports a suppressor was used. This was not a random shooting.
The poors are starting to uprise!!!
People are at their breaking point it seems. 2 attempts on trump that we know about and now this.Also poor Elon got denied his $100 Billion bonus. It’s almost like the corruption went too far.
Hope the shooter fed him the line “Merry Christmas ya filthy animal”.
I know this isn’t funny, but honestly, this system is beyond screwed up. And as turns out, I can’t find any fucks to give.
That’s gotta be the largest suspect list in the history of mankind.