No, but I do remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare started granting a bunch of claims to the point that shareholders sued them over it, at least until the heat died down. In that time, countless lives were saved.
What’s with the push lately that I’ve seen to pretend that United and other healthcare CEOs weren’t shitting bricks and hiring personal security for months after he was killed?
Right, they’re just using the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance (violent and nonviolent) is futile.
How else should we interpret “Remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare suddenly dissolved?” if not as: “the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance is futile”
Well yeah, of course. More relevantly, I even heard their insurance approval rate shifted positive… For a few months anyway. But If it’s not back down already I assume it will be eventually. The profit pressure is still there.
That’s… not how capitalism works 😐
Do you want to expand on that statement?
As a commenter in a different post put it: Remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare suddenly dissolved?
No, but I do remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare started granting a bunch of claims to the point that shareholders sued them over it, at least until the heat died down. In that time, countless lives were saved.
What’s with the push lately that I’ve seen to pretend that United and other healthcare CEOs weren’t shitting bricks and hiring personal security for months after he was killed?
They didn’t say CEOs weren’t scared
Right, they’re just using the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance (violent and nonviolent) is futile.
No, you’re inferring that while trying to lump them with an unrelated group of people.
How else should we interpret “Remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare suddenly dissolved?” if not as: “the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance is futile”
Well yeah, of course. More relevantly, I even heard their insurance approval rate shifted positive… For a few months anyway. But If it’s not back down already I assume it will be eventually. The profit pressure is still there.
Because only one wealthy guy got killed not all of them. The meme also doesn’t work when it’s only Elon Musk going into the bunker.
I’m okay with testing that one. Let’s lock Elon Musk in a bunker for 10 years. You know for science
But isn’t it a beautiful dream?