Yea, that's kinda drilled into your brain working for a corporation. I think that specific course comes up bi-annual, then you have the quarterly ones like email phishing, etc. Each sector is different though.
This is pretty normal stuff for a company? They have a comms team to talk to the press, especially for when the company makes the news. Everyone in corporate America has had a training where it says not to talk to the press
So, the very very wealthy man not only denies healthcare to millions of people for personal gain, but also does insider trading. So he can get richer. It's there anyone honest and decent around any more?
Yes, but they typically don’t make good CEO’s for publicly traded companies who primarily want to maximize quarterly profits for share holders and screw every one else.
Isn't it wonderful to work in a place where you hate your boss so? 😆 I did. At Xmas they passed around an envelope among us hourly schmucks to buy boss a nice Xmas present. It was handed in with just pocket change, They sent it around again & workers started taking their money OUT of the envelope.
Deny, Defend, Depose bullet casings from Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson...
a play on words of this book which have become a rallying cry for insurance critics?
Delay. Deny. Defend.
Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.
His financial manipulations are not a secret they were revealed by AP News and The Guardian to name 2 outlets, yesterday. All the UH corporate PR., won’t bury its stink.
Killing your customers, making their diseases worse, disabling them more, causing earlier deaths because UHC denied 32% of claims, twice industry average is also bad
Will reporters ask police if they’ll investigate this?
Seems like fraud?
How can I/we find out the source of info on the % ranking of insurance companies’ that deny health care for seniors on Medicare? Where does Mutual of Omaha rank…?
Thanks for telling the truth about this guy. You can can be a fan of poetic justice without advocating murder. I don't like being fed a bunch of bullshit about what a fine fellow he was when we all know medical insurance executives are by nature blood sucking vampires.
I hope every employee challenges this at every turn, with the media and on social media - and sue the bejeezus out of them if there's even a tiny hint of retaliation.
To your ending points: the urge to joke about events is useful for puncturing that veil of silence that prevents critical and necessary discussions of histories and legacies.
Yeah I especially enjoyed the part about how MSM doesn’t want to cover the CEO maybe stealing millions thru insider trading and being sued by the Fireman’s pension fund. MSM isn’t saying reporting how he had enemies for reasons.
This is boilerplate stuff. Any time a company has an adverse event that gets them press, the PR office puts something like this out so they can control the narrative on their "response".
"He will be missed" is better for stockholders than "He was a dick and the employees hired a mariachi band"
Wow. "This story is yet another example of how ill suited the major media is in reporting important truths when norms and conventions get in the way." That is a golden sentence. Thank you for that reporting, Ken.
This is what big corrupt corp does. God we need to bust these scandalous fucks… but unless there’s something going on behind the scenes, Biden is handing us over
Not a big deal. All companies would do this for such a heinous crime. The investigation could get very complicated...with here say,gossip, and by luck facts. Let the professionals do their work w/o extra noise and interference.
I mean say what you will but this is just standard practice...
When I was in school some stupid kid burned the Qur'an and posted it on FB, all the students were asked not to engage with any press who may be outside.
(Obviously a completely different situation but ykwim)
And definitely no one talks about the slow cruel murders of people by the health insurance corporations that insure them but then don’t pay for the life saving care they need.
Ken, your story mentions that one manager "deleted" her socials, but in the screenshot she says she "deactivated" them. I think of those actions as different things.
just some engagement bait for ken's substack. same with the quippy celebrations over the guy getting murdered yesterday.
and yeah you can think stuff is in poor taste and also believe CEO compensation is out of control, health insurers are awful, etc. people can be complex!
If so, I hope Klippenstein’s traffic perks up nicely. The notion that we are supposed to be tasteful over the assassination of parasite like Brian Thompson is ridiculous to me.
Thompson and his kind have made other responses to their mass murder-by-spreadsheet impossible. Let them eat lead.
be as tasteless as you like! it's the internet after all.
but being tasteless for the sole purpose of getting engagement and clicks on your paid newsletter seems pretty undignified for a journalist. if ken wants to debase his reputation then that's cool too, but i just won't take him as seriously
Hey employees, the CEOs CFOs COOs & shareholders put you in-between the Denied & Rejected victims and themselves...better have your head on a swivel toooo
As if this is going to stop someone from coming forward. Treating this as though it's an isolated incident or to help reduce the possibility that one of those executives is next? Whose to say that the guy is done? Or hasn't inspired others?
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"Whatcha gonna do? Shoot us dead in the street?"
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/unitedhealth-group/summary?id=D000000348
P.S. Definitely don’t show them this!
Defend
Depose
a play on words of this book which have become a rallying cry for insurance critics?
Delay. Deny. Defend.
Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.
https://delaydenydefend.com/
Killing your customers, making their diseases worse, disabling them more, causing earlier deaths because UHC denied 32% of claims, twice industry average is also bad
Will reporters ask police if they’ll investigate this?
Seems like fraud?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/data/unitedhealthcare-claim-denial-rates/
#Medicare4All
One of the best aspects of M4A was that it banned private health insurance companies.
Also, loved the article!
"He will be missed" is better for stockholders than "He was a dick and the employees hired a mariachi band"
That last sentence would be hilarious though.
When I was in school some stupid kid burned the Qur'an and posted it on FB, all the students were asked not to engage with any press who may be outside.
(Obviously a completely different situation but ykwim)
Weird phrasing.
Shouldn't that be "will generate billions of dollars in savings for customers"...?
😐
He got denied a claim for a timely death, they should just file an appeal.
and yeah you can think stuff is in poor taste and also believe CEO compensation is out of control, health insurers are awful, etc. people can be complex!
Thompson and his kind have made other responses to their mass murder-by-spreadsheet impossible. Let them eat lead.
but being tasteless for the sole purpose of getting engagement and clicks on your paid newsletter seems pretty undignified for a journalist. if ken wants to debase his reputation then that's cool too, but i just won't take him as seriously
So, so, complex.
Way complex.