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Kevin B.

Kevin B.

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glockman said:
Have you guys seen this?

It's interesting to see the comments. People are apparently fed up with insurance companies, enough that they don't even feel bad about their CEO being murdered. As someone who has dealt with health insurance a lot, although way less than my wife, I have a hard time not relating to the sentiment.

Look up copay accumulators. Last year I was ready to go to Vertex Pharmaceuticals and IHC's main office and punch everyone there.

Side note, in 2023 United Healthcare made $63 million dollars in net profit, per day. Something has to change.
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United Healthcare and Optum have been a particularly painful thorn in my side for years. I'm sorry the guy died, I'm not gonna say he deserved to go out like that, but I'm not crying about it either. I've been saying that this stuff is coming for years, and if I saw it, he should have too.

But this is what we're headed for. They keep consolidating money and power at the top, they keep turning the screws and widening the gap, people are eventually gonna take matters into their own hands. People taking shots at politicians, people taking shots at billionaires, or just taking shots at people in a grocery store or a church or a parade or an Army recruitment center, whoever it is in their twisted head that's causing whatever discomfort they're going through, that's who they're gonna gun down. This time it was an insurance CEO. Next time it might be some poor single mom in a hair salon.

Our current wealth gap is the worst it's been in a long time - by some accounts, worse than in France during their Revolution. Something has to give. It's giving right now, starting with the unbalanced and mentally disturbed, those that are already very close to that edge, but it's going to grow. Any time people feel like they don't have a say in the laws that affect them, there's going to be resistance, and people are very very much feeling that they don't have any control right now. People are feeling pinched financially, they're feeling pinched politically, religiously, etc. Pinched for space, pinched for freedom, I could go on. Some of them are starting to snap. And the more they concentrate the existing wealth at the top, the more stress everybody else is going to feel, and these things are going to get more common.

Not that they're going to do anything about it. Their answer is going to be more gun laws, and more citizen surveillance, so that they can keep raking in the dough and keep the unwashed masses in line.

Hickey said:
I’m thinking the shooter is a close relative of the insured party.
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Something like that, anyway. This was definitely personal, and not in a "you screwed my wife" sort of way.
 
Herzog

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Kevin B. said:
Not that they're going to do anything about it. Their answer is going to be more gun laws, and more citizen surveillance, so that they can keep raking in the dough and keep the unwashed masses in line.
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Yep. Problem, reaction, solution. Just never the right solution.
 
J Kimmel

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Hickey said:
I personally think this is B.S. ain’t no way he held on to the gun, suppressor, and fake ID this long. They want people to think it’s been handled with success.
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I’m not jumping down any conspiracy theories yet but it really seems nuts that he would be that composed while murdering someone in broad daylight and then hold on to everything but the backpack a few days and a few states later. Seems like dropping the evidence one piece at a time one state at a time would’ve made the most sense.
 
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