He died after a battle with the Healthcare system.


Lemme hear your conspiracy theories.

12/4/2024 12:05:09 PM

If you don't want that pew pew...

12/4/2024 12:32:48 PM

Not really a conspiracy, but this is just an inevitable outcome when healthcare prioritizes profits over, you know, helping people.

12/4/2024 12:49:41 PM

I'm still in the murder is bad camp

12/4/2024 12:59:30 PM

Murder is bad.

This is also an occupational hazard when you choose to become an executive in the privatized death panel industry.

12/4/2024 1:10:42 PM

false.

12/4/2024 1:16:22 PM

12/4/2024 1:24:13 PM

true.

12/4/2024 1:31:57 PM

You seem to have strong opinions about this, bro. Come to think of it, where were you this morning justinh524?




[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 1:34 PM. Reason : les]

12/4/2024 1:33:33 PM

Shooter is dying or someone close to him, they can't afford healthcare (because our healthcare system is shit because it prioritizes profits over helping people), he went a little crazy/nothing to lose.

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"false."

Um, it seems true to me that there are occupational hazards... guy got shot because of his job.

12/4/2024 1:44:11 PM

Didn't realize we lived in a society where citizens just got to decide for themselves who they think is and isn't deserving of execution.

12/4/2024 1:51:16 PM

^^ how do you know he wasn't fucking the guys wife. He was leaving a Hilton.

^ https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolence-Protects-State-Peter-Gelderloos/dp/0896087727



[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 2:06 PM. Reason : A]

12/4/2024 2:00:48 PM

Good Night, Sweet Prince

12/4/2024 2:03:29 PM

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"Didn't realize we lived in a society where citizens just got to decide for themselves who they think is and isn't deserving of execution."

We do and this guy was the CEO of it!

12/4/2024 2:06:45 PM

I wonder what he knew about Hillary...

12/4/2024 2:20:06 PM

It's pretty wild to see left and right takes both advocating for ^^

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"A somewhat similar shift occurs in the case of the radical when he goes about building his new world. He feels the need for practical guidance, and since he has rejected and destroyed the present he is compelled to link the new world with some point in the past. If he has to employ violence in shaping the new, his view of man's nature darkens and approaches closer to that of the reactionary."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM. Reason : a]

12/4/2024 2:21:23 PM

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"Didn't realize we lived in a society where citizens just got to decide for themselves who they think is and isn't deserving of execution."

Apparently we do, it happened here, and it happens everyday (acknowledging it isn't condoning it, and hopefully he'll be caught and punished).

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" how do you know he wasn't fucking the guys wife. He was leaving a Hilton."

True. Or any number of other things that possibly set this shooter off.

12/4/2024 2:27:25 PM

looks like an awful lot of condoning itt

[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 2:30 PM. Reason : guess it's every gorilla for himself out there now. watch your backs.]

12/4/2024 2:29:52 PM

Qntmken knows your IP address... just sayin...

12/4/2024 2:36:34 PM

I'm not seeing a lot of condoning

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"I'm still in the murder is bad camp"

In every and all situations? What about war?

[Edited on December 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM. Reason : ]

12/4/2024 2:41:39 PM

I'm in the don't start wars camp.

12/4/2024 2:50:07 PM

I'm in the camping is in tents camp.

12/4/2024 2:54:58 PM

For real tho....

Is the shooter OK?

12/4/2024 3:04:30 PM

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"I'm in the don't start wars camp."

okay, but then murder is okay?

12/4/2024 3:37:51 PM

is it possible to observe that this kind of shit happens for a reason

but that it's not a good reason to shoot someone

I would prefer blackmail

12/4/2024 4:00:09 PM

shooter was a member of dumbledores army

12/4/2024 5:52:07 PM

6:44 AM in NYC in December is not broad daylight, to be fair.

12/4/2024 7:07:56 PM

Homie looked tired. Rest in peace

12/4/2024 7:16:22 PM

Antipha

12/4/2024 7:41:41 PM

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"okay, but then murder is okay"

yup knock yourself out

12/4/2024 7:52:53 PM

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"This is also an occupational hazard when you choose to become an executive in the privatized death panel industry. "

Interesting thought.

I feel like this some jason bourne type shit seeinf the person had a silencer and a e-bike ready etc and didn't get face on camera etc

12/4/2024 8:26:37 PM

$10,000 reward offered for information that helps catch the killer. Seems a little cheap.

12/4/2024 9:20:25 PM

^ 1% of Brian Thompson's annual salary would be a good reward.

12/4/2024 9:56:22 PM

Rich people don't stay rich by giving away money

12/5/2024 12:55:42 AM

Would wager that's how most stay rich. You aren't getting the fat contracts if your competition out spends you.

12/5/2024 1:03:06 AM

I've seen $1000 rewards for finding lost dogs

12/5/2024 1:08:50 AM

The killer apparently had a spare e-bike battery with him and may have pre-positioned the e-bike ahead of time. He also wrote deny, defend, depose on the shell casings.

12/5/2024 8:17:31 AM

How does NY not have a network of cameras that could’ve potentially mapped out this guys route right after the shooting? I mean shit every house in our neighborhood could potentially do this with their ring cameras. I guess by the time the police would be able to get access to them all, the shooter would be long gone.

And for those saying that this guy deserved it…I don’t think any CEO is a great person. I fully believe that you have to be cutthroat to make it to that level, and that you’ve almost certainly had to be an asshole to attain that level of success in corporate America. Being an asshole doesn’t warrant execution though. But insurance companies hire third party companies for claim denial. They set the percentage of denied claims, but they don’t personally do the denials.

And for what it’s worth, I’m not talking about the CEO of a mom and pops company that employs 100 people. I’m talking about CEO’s of companies like UHC.

[Edited on December 5, 2024 at 8:35 AM. Reason : Iuhlkhljkh]

12/5/2024 8:34:28 AM

^ obviously both public and private cameras probably mapped his path. For private you'll need a warrant and that takes time. Assuming the public ones are all on the same system, which probably isn't reasonable, and accessible through a consistent interface, how many hours of video (number of cameras / city block * 15 minutes) you'd have to wade through to find and map it? At best you'd be talking days if all the video is available to a single agency in a consistent format.

12/5/2024 8:56:49 AM

6:45AM is not broad daylight this time of year, please lock/suspend/delete this thread

12/5/2024 9:42:43 AM

I wonder if any other oligarchs are like:

12/5/2024 9:42:56 AM

He succumbed to lead poisoning because the closest medical provider was outside of his network.

12/5/2024 10:29:56 AM

A shame really...

Also, his shots were not covered by his medical provider, because he was out of network.

12/5/2024 11:02:28 AM

NYC does have cameras but he knew there are a lot less of them in Central Park. They do think they have a shot of him riding the e-bike 15 minutes after the attack (I believe near 85th street). They have a partial shot of his face which may be enough to make an ID and also apparently there is a bottle of water left behind that may have been his (DNA possibly on it).

12/5/2024 11:24:37 AM

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/05/nx-s1-5217617/blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-anthem

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"Doctors and policymakers are sounding the alarm after one of the country's largest health insurers announced that starting next year, in certain states, it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond a particular time limit. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says that starting in February it will use metrics — known as Physician Work Time values — from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to "target the number of minutes reported for anesthesia services.""

[Edited on December 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

12/5/2024 1:05:57 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-wapo-reporter-says-want-120047396.html

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""And people wonder why we want these executives dead," Lorenz wrote hours later, referencing Thompson’s death in a Bluesky post with a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield no longer covering anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. Lorenz also posted an image of Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Kim Keck with a similar article on both Bluesky and X. She reposted another user who wrote, "[H}ypothetically, would it be considered an actionable threat to start emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘you're next’? Completely unrelated to current events btw.""

12/5/2024 1:23:11 PM

Are people advocating for The Purge in here, or what?

12/5/2024 1:26:32 PM

Nope. Murder is bad. But I'd like to advocate for a complete overhaul of our health care system... I'm sure RFKJ will get right on it.

12/5/2024 1:36:01 PM

^^^ so... interesting. That isn't unlike the incitements to violence that DJT routinely engages in on social media.

12/5/2024 2:15:53 PM

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"Doctors and policymakers are sounding the alarm after one of the country's largest health insurers announced that starting next year, in certain states, it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond a particular time limit. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says that starting in February it will use metrics — known as Physician Work Time values — from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to "target the number of minutes reported for anesthesia services."

Too bad I'm not red-headed. That's a slam dunk payout for gingers in the making.

12/5/2024 2:24:06 PM