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I don't think people are celebrating because of who he was, but because of what he represents to them.
A user in another post wrote that denials went from single digits to 20% when he became CEO.
If that's true, then people are celebrating both for who he was AND what he represents.
That is indeed the case, though there's more to those numbers. Thos are numbers for prior authorization denials, but they're also from a report focused on Medicare Advantage plans for elderly and disabled folks (you know, the people who would be most fucked over by denials). Pulled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Thompson_(businessman)
As an added bonus, there's also this insanity that he tried to push through:
I wonder if UHC has ever denied coverage to victims of gunshot wounds?
His murder was clearly a message to Healthcare CEOs intended to scare them.
That makes it terrorism, and life insurance policies usually have an exception for death in a terrorist attack.
Question from a non-American, can you choose your Health insurer, or is it decided by your employer?
If you can freely choose, it would be great to have these denial/delay rates published, so people could vote with their feet to the company with the lowest denial rates and thus apply pressure to companies like this.
Simplistic view, I know. Things are much different here thank goodness.
No.... also for who he was. As the CEO of that company, he is directly responsible for the deaths and financial hardships of many who depended on and paid his company to provide protection and relief from those things. And he did that not just through ineptitude or negligence but through willful action that prioritized his bottom line over human life. Fuck him.
The thing is though, he is merely a symptom of a sociopathic society, economic, and political system. UH under his leadership may be the most egregious example in US healthcare, but the fact remains that the current system rewards psychopathy and narcissism with wealth and power. There is an endless supply of criminally corrupt scabs just like him that will step up to take his place for a chance at being the slave master.
Greed, exploitation, extortion, fraud, theft, corruption, murder, terrorism, authoritarianism, ecocide, genocide; all of these are rewarded or condoned on some level by our "democracies" as long as you do it behind the shield of an LLC, in the name of profit.
We are on a rock floating in the middle of nowhere, that took billions of years to materialize a biosphere out of nothing, in a cold and desolate universe, and the system we have chosen is aggressively annihilating it all in the blink of an eye. We are a cancer that is killing our host.
THE WORLD HUMANITY HAS BUILT — THE REALITY WE ACCEPT — IS PSYCHOTIC!
Sure. He had agency though. As did his killer.
The Ewoks probably felt similarly.
Well okay, destroying the giant death laser probably had its perks. But also symbolism for the Empire.
I mean part of it is he is the ceo. Its like if anyone is responsible for the bullshit companies do its the ceo and board of directors. I think a lot of folks would like them to fear for their lives is their corps are fucking folks over. Maybe they might decide limiting anesthias medicine in surgeries is not such a hot idea or such.