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.

        • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          OK, suppose lynch mobs started forming in your city to hang drug dealers. Would you cheer them on?

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            (days late and all that) did you really dig for the worst non super wealthy you could come up with is the guy who sells me weed?

            You must live a very sheltered life. I feel sorry for you

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            7 days ago

            Well, that depends. Is the law actively defending those drug dealers and do the drug dealers own the politicians in charge of writing those laws so that they can never be held legaly accountable?

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              7 days ago

              If drug dealers are on the streets, then they obviously aren’t being held accountable by the law. So is lynching them OK?

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            6 days ago

            Are you really comparing drug dealers to a health insurance magistrate directly responsible for the deaths of countless people? Fuck entirely off

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              6 days ago

              Yes, I am.

              Because in their pursuit of money, drug dealers are also directly responsible for the deaths of countless people. I’m surprised I have to spell it out for you.

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                6 days ago

                Total false equivalency.

                A single drug dealer may be adjacently responsible for a couple of people killing themselves with drugs, but a health insurance magistrate is directly responsible for millions of people suffering and dying.

                Likewise, most drug dealers are just doing what they gotta do to survive. Corpos with millions in their bank are actively killing people for what equates to pennies for them.

                Go cry in your corner. I’ll be helping sharpen the guillotine

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                  5 days ago

                  An insurance CEO is not responsible for millions of deaths. Drug dealers cause suffering to a lot more than just a couple of people.

                  And drug dealers are not forced to do what they do to survive. Every drug dealer has friends or family who survive without dealing drugs.

                  You can sharpen guillotines for the CEOs, while Kyle Rittenhouse wannabes load their assault rifles for street criminals. You’re ultimately indistinguishable to the rest of us.