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Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (42 children)

Life is short and filled with potential that sometimes met and other times robbed.

Having lost many members of my family, I don't wish it on others.

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So I would suggest that anyone actually learn to read what is written. It's like taking to 5 year old that jump to conclusions..... Seriously people, I don't care about this Billionaire, I won't be someone who will sya that murder is good and let's purge all rich people. That is not constructive and I value life, not death. So many of you suffered from health insurance but when you come to vote you vote like most Americans do, not in my backyard. I don't want socialism, governments not coming to take my money or guns....

No offence but private health care didn't happen over night. You live in one of the greatest democratic institutions but simy chose not to use your tools. That is why corruption runs amok, none of you want to stand up and unite yourself with other Americans because you are all so bloody individualist. All other countries with universal healthcare didn't just get it by miracle, it was work and commitment to the greater good which means not getting into hissy fights for every little thing.

How about listening to George Carlin to. Illuminate your minds... Seriously America, everyone in the world has been telling you that you have a problem, stop gaslighting us.

[–] Donkter 11 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Yeah man, your heart bleeds for the millions of people who die every month. But your actions and words speak for the one CEO...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nope I don't glorify murder, have fun promoting your death cult

[–] inv3r510n -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Have fun being a fucking bootlicker.

Get the fuck out of the way you dumb fucking clown of a liberal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For point of fact I'm more on the socialist side since in my country we have had universal healthcare for years and are a better society for it instead of being gun trotting savage capitalist....

That's a you buddy @[email protected]

[–] inv3r510n -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You’re a social democrat, which is another form of a liberal. You support capitalism. You support extracting resources from the global south. You’re a smug European enlightened centrist who hasn’t got a fucking clue what they’re talking about when it comes to American issues or political definitions in general.

I am not a capitalist and I don’t know how you managed to get that out of this. You must think I’m right wing, but that just goes to show you do not understand Americans.

Let me tell you about my state. Vermont. We’re the home of Bernie Sanders, the highest per capita LGBTQ population (first state to support civil unions), and one of the highest gun owning states with the loosest laws. We’ve got legal weed and you can grow your own (most states prohibit), and abortion is a right codified in our state constitution (the US is 50 countries in a trench coat plus some exploited territories). We were once our own country separate of the US and prior to it, and we lasted longer as an independent republic than the confederacy during the civil war lolololol.

[–] Donkter 1 points 5 days ago

Bro's lost in the sauce

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow ... So whne a conversation reaches a higher thinking then that of the IQ of a cabbage...you star cussing.... Wow you must truly be the smartest of your class.... 🙄

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