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Where do you think they got the $10 million/year to pay this man? Who do you think instituted a policy to use AI for approvals/denials, which resulted in a 90% false rejection rate? What's crazy is acting like the murder of thousands of people through denial of medical care for money, if done from a sufficient distance, is somehow less abhorrent than doing it up close and with a gun.
Expecting people who have either been directly impacted or had family medical care impacted by the policies of this man to show sympathy for him isn't just unrealistic, it's deranged. Considering United is one of the largest insurance companies in the US, that's a lot of fucking people who are at best apathetic about the whole situation.
Obligatory 'I suspect some people who can't read might reply to this' disclaimer: obviously you shouldn't murder people. Including if you're a healthcare CEO and it's done by setting policies to squeeze the maximum profit out of people before they die.
No, people shouldn't murder individuals who work at companies they don't like.
And the people that run those companies, should they kill people depending on their company for healthcare if it makes them money?