Even before the murder if anyone complained about anything insurance related I’d say it’s the bloody actuaries fault. Figured it helped raise our profile. Thinking I better be more specific in future…
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Interesting, I did not know about a ‘claim file.’ Just sent this to my wife, who gets the runaround quite often from insurers.
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Thanks for this. We used to have a saying in Australia “Keep the bastards honest”.
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Now there’s a song. NSFW warning: one f-bomb.
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It’s the bloody chief actuaries fault.
Anyone know the source of Burke making $50b?
He certainly didn’t make that much. Doesn’t seem to line up with revenue or profit numbers for UHC or UHG, best I can tell. Maybe he wasn’t being literal there and just picked a big-ass number.
Kind of like when Ro Khanna said health insurers made $1.4 trillion in profits last year.
I hate listening to myself when I say stuff like this because it sounds pedantic. But if this level of disinterest in the details is the difference between voting for legislatures who will expand Medicaid, or shooting a guy in the back, I feel like the numbers matter.
I think that off since his net worth from what I’ve seen is just under a billion. Probably meant $50m, but billion sounded better.
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Probably. And I’m partial to that, because both numbers are unfathomably large to the average person.
There’s gotta be a number though, where a marginal dollar makes the difference between a psycho (and his simps) feeling like its okay to shoot you in the back, and not feeling okay about it.
I would be less cavalier about this, were I TikTok Bob Dylan.
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I mean, I feel the same. But obviously a lot of folks respond to Trump droning on about ‘billions and billions’ so I doubt many people really think about it beyond ‘healthcare execs making massive bank.’
Luigi Mangione supporters have donated tens of thousands of dollars to “defense funds” set up for him after he was arrested on suspicion of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The anonymous fund “December 4th Legal Committee” surpassed more than $100,000 in donations on the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo by Sunday morning.
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There ain’t no “U” in United Healthcare
There ain’t no “me” in company
"They say a man should always dress, for the job he wants. So why’m I dressed up like a pirate in the restaurant?
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Besides the obvious grossness of helping an allegedly cold-blooded allegedly murderer, I’m also a bit confused: What exactly would he be “defending” against?
“Justifiable,” obvi.
Americans express how much they care about an issue by throwing money at undeserving people.
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Yep, I did. I downloaded the sample the day I heard about it.
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You’re highlighting the two sides of the issue by doing the same thing you’re accusing others of :).
A sick individual murdered another person. At the personal level, that’s wrong and people are justified in condemning Luigi.
The proponents aren’t necessarily cheering the death of a specific individual,they’re cheering the idea of a brutal insurance company receiving their due really without regard to the tragedy that was the specific CEO’s death. The act is a symbol, not a murder for those folks and they’re ignoring the murder.
Jaspmama would have been a formidable Purge leader, then.
(She was, a few pretzels short of a Chex Mix. And would write, colorful things about and to people who “wronged” her in large and small ways.)
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