Anonymous #1 6w

you must not understand what the word merchant means. or the phrase merchant of death. or have any sense of justice.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I mean you just made those up, so no I don’t. He was the ceo of a company not an arms dealer.

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Anonymous #1 6w

"a company" oh how nice. i wonder how that company makes profits. how it functions. if thats a subject at all. big mystery here

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Anonymous #1 6w

Merchant of death is a well known phrase, and it’s well known his actions as CEO can be directly linked to tens of thousands of deaths. That’s fact.

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Anonymous OP 6w

Violence being the solution to injustice isn’t a society it’s anarchy. No matter how ‘evil’ he was he didn’t deserve to be shot in the street.

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Anonymous #1 6w

well im sure glad the system works to fight injustice. its not like the greatest child sex trafficker of all time is up for a pardon or is in a minimum security country club prison or anything

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Anonymous OP 6w

Yeah I think that’s fucking insane, we elected a pedo to the world’s most powerful office.

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Anonymous #1 6w

If you saw the untold suffering of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses under capitalism you would probably go crazy and wanna hurt people too

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Anonymous smithereen 6w

Shooting people is wrong and not a valid way to solve problems. It’s really not that hard, as much as he sucked it says a lot about you that you think murder is a valid form of political expression.

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Anonymous OP 6w

She’s going to see a pardon because the president is a pedophile. That doesn’t make what Luigi did okay, nor is his case particularly relevant to this story

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Anonymous #2 6w

It’s not a fact, you just made that up. Thompson was the #3 ranking guy at the company until May 2024, when his boss retired and he became the #2 ranking guy until his murder in December. In those 7 months that he was #2 at the company, what specific actions did he take that caused deaths?

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Anonymous #5 6w

It’s very very easy math. I can break it down if you need me to.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Please do!

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Anonymous #5 6w

Pushing for the new ai claims agent that wrongfully denied tens of thousands of claims. They deny nearly 1/3rd of all claims. The most of any insurance company with nearly 50% less than their competitors

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Anonymous #5 6w

So about 30,000,000 people have UHC insurance, about 10% of all Americans. UHC denies 32% of claims. So, if they have 100,000 patients per year (the average), and they’re denying 32% of claims, then 32,000 deaths are from patients whose claims were denied

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Anonymous #2 6w

Just to be clear how much corporate bs justifies a cold blooded murder? Where do we draw the line, I hate my healthcare company am I justified to go kill someone?

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Anonymous #2 6w

I think you’re assuming no one got more than one service from the doctor that year, and that everyone whose claims were denied died (they could have had the hospital eat the cost, for example, or just simply not died). I get the sentiment but the math is based on wayyyy too many assumptions

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Anonymous #1 6w

I never said it was justified. I said that the CEO was a bad guy too. Things can be morally grey but legally black and white.

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Anonymous #3 6w

No the number is based on average deaths, not claims

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Anonymous #2 6w

Morally grey is very different from a cold blooded murder where you believe the victim deserved it. We live in a society where violence is not the answer, it’s quite simple.

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Anonymous #3 6w

The 32% of claims was just a figure to state 32% of patients who DID die likely had a denied claim. It’s an over estimate, but I can overestimate by a factor of 3x and he’d still be responsible for over 10,000 deaths just from 2024

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Anonymous #1 6w

I don’t think so. Like when PDFs get murdered in prison we cheer for it. Rightfully so. It’s still murder.

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Anonymous #2 6w

You went from patients to claim denials, and then equated claim denials to death. That assumes all of their patients go to the doctor exactly once, and those whose claims were denied died. For example, if you see your doctor, they order bloodwork, and you go get the bloodwork, that’s at least 2 claims. You’re saying that the insurance company not covering the bloodwork killed them. While that’s possible, it’s not happening in 100% of claim denials

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Anonymous #2 6w

I don’t know where you are getting we from, murder outside the law is the path to anarchy and I don’t support it.

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Anonymous #2 6w

Uhhh who is “we”? Pedos should rot in prison and think about what they’ve done

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Anonymous #1 6w

Legal “murder” is bad too. I don’t support the death penalty or extrajudicial killings

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Anonymous #3 6w

No it doesn’t. I’m assuming the # of deaths per year yes, but that’s just based on national death rate and UHC’s ~10% of the American health insurance market. Are you saying im assuming one claim per person? Because this doesn’t. They can submit 100 claims per year. They still died. They still had a 32% chance of denial each time

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Anonymous #3 6w

Well that’s fine. I’m just saying society has looser morals than you. You can use that to your advantage, or you can get upset that people are going to naturally do the things they do

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Anonymous #2 6w

Hmm maybe I’m not seeing how you’re factoring in the national death rate then. But you see that if they had 32k patients die per year, they’d become unprofitable pretty quickly, right?

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Anonymous #3 6w

Nah that’s just truth, the us has 3,000,000+ deaths per year. Roughly 90% of America has health insurance (2.7M) and UHC has 10% of the healthcare patients. That’d be 270,000 deaths per year if they had the normal rate

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Anonymous #2 6w

Ahh I think I see now. Claim denials still don’t necessarily result in death but I do see where you’re going

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Anonymous #5 6w

I don’t think anyone deserves the death penalty for shooting a single person, especially if that person is guilty of causing multiple deaths

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Anonymous #1 6w

If violence isn’t the solution then he shouldn’t get the death penalty 🤷

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Anonymous #5 6w

Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. His greed driven choices let to literally thousands of deaths.

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Anonymous #5 6w

You think because we had never heard of Thompson that it makes him murdering hundreds if not thousands okay?

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Anonymous #1 6w

evil people should die actually

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