UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot - 12/9 UPDATE: CAUGHT

I was thinking the same thing. With all the cameras and cell phone videos we have had for the last 15+ years, this is the first example I can remember seeing that looks like a no kidding, lone professional hit man. I know people love movies about them but outside gangs, the mafia and nation states, you just do not really hear about/see murders where there is a professional hit man like you see in movies/TV.

 

Are these alibis?

 

Having spent my entire career in private equity, I still absolutely agree with this statement. Hospitals too.

Won’t happen though.

 

Just a side note on the Coverage Gap thing.....When I reached the doughnut hole the price of my Farxiga went up to around $150 per month. I told my cardiologist that it wasn't that I couldn't afford it just that I refused to let the big pharmacy companies screw me so I would rather just go without it. She said, "Let me see what I can do about that". Orlando Health called the next day and said they would give me the Farxiga at no charge and deliver it to my door. LOL that is how bad big pharma is screwing us.

 

Wow, rather insensitive crowd. The guy was a husband and a father, not just a CEO.

I worked on the finance side of health care for many years and denying claims is what insurance companies do, it's certainly not unique to United.

 

From Newsweek- “HealthPartners, a hospital operator in Bloomington, Minnesota, dropped out of UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan for next year due to concerns of coverage denials and delayed payments. The change is going to affect 30,000 patients.”

Lots of horror stories on AARP website too.

 

I won't disagree with you stating your experience. I merely stated mine, which doesn't seem to be universal.

 

Some John Q stuff today.

Nothing will change until Americans accept that we are just a vessel for the randomness of 4 nucleic acids whose sole purpose is to replicate and survive the harsh universe… or just accept that insurance is just a redistribution mechanism out of your heir’s hands and into someone else’s pockets.

 

We have UHC Medicare Advantage through AARP. That may be the difference in our experiences.

 

Why do we "replicate"?

What's the point, if there's no purpose?

 

Curious was this in the Daytona area?

 

One of my cousins is a doctor and posted a bar chart showing UHC has, by far, the highest percentage of claim rejections.

 

And you think that once that happens there won’t be denials? You don’t pay much attention to Social Security Disabilty, do you?

 

Doesn't strike me as very *professional*--he was seen doing the 'hit', and did it quite publicly. That's highly unprofessional.

Only in the movies (or in mafia hey day--eg Valentine's Day massacre) are hits intended to look like a hit, in order to communicate a message. (I guess i should allow for modern day gangland, as a claim of 'turf', but that pretty sure, doesn't apply here)


This 'hit' struck me as an amateur job by a military vet looking to start a resume--or, just some dude who took UH's denials pretty personally, and figured he'd administer *justice* (albeit with military or law enforcement training).

Jmho/fwiw.

 

It's a serious question--how does "4 random nucleic acids" *decide* to replicate itself?

Why would anything "random", seek to replicate itself? Why would it bother to replicate itself? How could it figure out how to replicate itself?

"Replicating itself" can't be its purpose, without some pre-existing knowledge that "replicating [one]self" is some how desirable--and desirable has no meaning, absent a will.
And a will, necessarily presumes intelligence.

The questions are presumably rhetorical, but only to those who see the patent absurdity of the foolish notion that life could possibly come into existence (nevermind proliferate so abundantly) without *intelligence* baked in, guiding it, etc.

Hence the questions are serious, IF you actually buy into that foolishness that the militant atheists laughably champion as "science based".

 

What are you even talking about? I didn't say anything about denials.

 

I agree, problem with most resumes I review from vets is their “hits” section is usually pretty light.

 

Not a pro. Anyone who’s shot a gun knows how to rack a pistol to clear it. If u put a suppressor on a semi auto pistol it needs a piston to allow the chamber to clear after shooting. A professional would know that. That’s why it jammed. Probly the first time that guy shot that particular.22 or whatever it was.