Isn't it funny how the pearl clutchers still won't acknowledge the guy was defrauding his own investors? Yeah, nothing says capitalist hero like defrauding your investors.
Oh, you mean the part where they hid the Fed investigation from their investors so they could sell off their stock at peak price? Are these the "other issues" we're talking about? Needless to say, the self-righteous indignation falls a little flat here.
It does remove one reason for the killing, revenge. If UHC had denied a claim for his back pain that could have been a motive.
The justification for all vigilante violence is defense of others, subway killer or Luigi. Very rarely are they avenging themselves, they are taking it upon themselves to act for others. You can learn a lot about society by which vigilantes go to jail and which say, the law and politicians protect, and get invited to watch the Army/Navy game with the VP.
I don't think he has to be wronged by them specifically. I have absolutely no idea what mindset the guy is in. I'm not really concerned with his principles or lack thereof either. Can't have people going around shooting people in the back no matter how despicable their business practices are but it did shine a light on just how unscrupulous these companies are. I don't know if it was coincidence or not but it just so happened that UHC is the worst of the worst and their CEO's lack of ethics extended beyond just inhumane business practices but screwing over investors as well. Great guy!
His real manifesto is out there, it basically says he picked them because they were the worst of the worst and they were having a shareholder meeting.
To be honest this crap does matter more than we know yet......My wife and I have had United Healthcare ever since I retired a few years back. She has had procedures done at hospitals many, many times and I have had procedures done multiple times myself. Until today neither one of us ever had to sign an agreement in advance before checking in that if insurance didn't accept any of the claims we would pay them. Today while registering for a procedure at Advent Health in Altamonte they made her sign such an agreement. The timing of this makes me wonder what has changed?
Its called a warranty question. It makes it slightly harder for you to sue them if they reject a claim, because you are agreeing you know you might have to pay something in advance.
Legally speaking I dont know how useful these things are. For instance, if they refuse the procedure if you dont sign, then a waiver like this is fairly useless in court as it stands. "Waive your rights or you die" isnt a very fair negotiation.
I just like that insurance is just gatekeeping healthcare from it's paying customers at this point. And now clinics are catching on and trying stuff like this to protect themselves. Like we aren't even pretending anymore.
Yeah that is basically what this is - gatekeeping. If it prevents one person from suing or having a procedure it has served its purpose, even if the waiver itself has no real legal power and is basically unenforceable in a claim dispute that is adjudicated.
Once again the Babylon Bee demonstrates that it's not very good at satire. It's trying to be a conservative alternative to the Onion and usually fails miserably every time it tries.
There's a direct path from Elon Musk getting mad they got banned from Twitter, to him buying it, to Donald Trump becoming president. The opening chapter of the fall of the American Republic will start with the Bee misgendering someone as a "joke."
