I am honestly surprised the convo hasn’t yet shifted to “the world is so inhospitable to young white men, that’s why this happened” instead of “what’s wrong with insurance that this man did this?”
People won't provide care if you don't pay them. The solution is to remove all the government laws and regulations that prevent free market competition.
I support free market competition between private regulators. Customers should vote based on their purchasing decisions which regulations they want and are willing to pay for. Private regulators can be replaced if needed unlike government ones
That sounds good, but the devil is always in the details. We're certainly familiar with the devils of our current disastrous system. I'm willing to consider almost any alternative to what we have now.
Boomer generation all up in arms why the kids don’t care about an evil corporate CEO getting killed. This is inevitable, when for years they told us thoughts and prayers for your classmates getting slaughtered, sorry nothing we can do about it 🤷♂️. Chickens coming home to roost.
Boomer here 👋. Hi hi hi. Capitalism and income inequality are out of control. When tragic events happen and no one can rage about it, you’ve lost the plot. Class politics > identity politics.
I am a Boomer and I think Luigi is THE American hero of the 21st Century. I have been wondering for year when you kids would get sick of being shit on, and have your own Weathermen. We aren't all old, fat and stupid, and we got you Roe.
Honestly, the Boomers were just as meh about Thompson's death. The guy ran UHC's Medicare Advantage program. They've been directly impacted. What made the public response to Thompson's murder was that the indifference crossed party and age lines. The only people upset were the ruling class.
As a boomer, I loved Batman growing up on afternoon tv.
The more I've read about Luigi is that he is a Batman for our times. A wounded person who turns his energy to fighting crime. What UHG does should be criminal.
I believe Luigi will be set free. They won't find a jury to convict him.
The vast majority of boomers are just as angry as you. You’re projecting the views of right wing mouthpieces as the voice of an entire generation. That’s not the case.
They're desperately trying to shift the narrative and get people to bicker among themselves again, but folks are treating this realistically: It's self-defense in a country full of gun rights enthusiasts.
Closing online comments while encouraging readers to write a letter to be heard is the same thing as UHC requiring 3x minimum submission to get eyes on a pre-Auth approval or claim denial. Corporate America hates their customers.
"The children don't seem to like my article. Could I be the problem? No. It's the children commenting! Maybe if we silence their voices it will fix the problem."
Genuine question, do you think there’s been a moment as galvanizing as this in recent history? Because everywhere I turn Instagram, news comment sections, Facebook all the comments have the exact same sentiment.
part of that is your algorithm. but i like to think a lot of people that have been forced to see endless cruelty and death inflicted on the powerless have given quite a bit of thought to who actually deserves to be treated like that and who doesn't.
I’ve thought about my own algorithm bias but what really kinda shocked me was Facebook. I hardly use it and I grew up in a small town so most of my “friends” are from like 2014 and half of them have different beliefs than me to say the least. even they’ve been posting stuff that’s double take worthy
It's funny to see the contrarians that just argue with everything start simping for insurance companies under the premise of "all murder is wrong" yet they've literally never made that argument before so they are quickly destroyed.
The best thing one could say about UnitedHealthcare's former CEO upon reading this propaganda is that he declined to adopt new methods of cheating patients out of coverage.
Witty says nothing about shrinking company profits and expanding benefits for subscribers.
It's amazing some of these corporate losers with no education who run these companies I want them dead all of them. I hope they all die of a heart attack today they could drop dead, and I would be happy .
Corporate media really out here writing satire without knowing it. Ken’s “play in 3 acts” nails it - nothing exposes the system better than letting it speak for itself. This thread is a chef’s kiss 👌🏼🔥
A lesson on manufactured consent and how to fuck it up so spectacularly that you lay yourself and intentions bare before the world. Caught with the hand in the cookie jar of the American people’s minds. It’s shuddering to know that those behind this are people just like you and me.
The CEO that was writing the article cares, because the entire reason he paid the NYT to post it was to try and calm things down. If people can instantly see their peers aren't buying his non apology then it's money wasted - and it's even worse if they are rallying against him there.
Now they're switching the narrative to how 'if you do something the system will get you and this is how bad prison is'. Then they show the angry pictures of Luigi instead of the cute ones.
You know they're going to try and rig that trial in every way possible to try and make a further example out of luigi, but if he still gets out the rich are going to lose their shit, and i am all for it. I want to see CEOs lose it
Lol. The first thing we do is to get rid of the health insurance companies, which are literal vampires. Thanks to Luigi Mangione, we now know no silver bullets, crucifixes, or wooden stakes are required, so that's good.
I was starting to wonder.
The call for public input & criticism, only to immediately reverse that call-to-action, locking down any capacity for transparent public input & criticism, seems fairly on brand for the NYT
I remember being so freaking proud the first time my name appeared in the @nytimes.com (book review). I considered the paper the gold standard. It's so depressing to see what it's become over the last nine years. RIP the gray lady.
With the shooting of the UnitedHealthCare CEO in Manhattan, some have taken to airing their grievances about healthcare maltreatment. But was Thompson a bad apple or symbolic of a rotten apple barrel?
The corporate fox guarding the henhouse doesn't work, never has. We need BIG GOVERNMENT to protect us from BIG BUSINESS, which is more concentrated and powerful than ever. Did anyone notice that the world's richest man---a vile racist, misogynist fascist-- is now Co-President of the US?
In the 80's Bill Gates said he was a businessman and didn't care about charity. As the public suddenly turned against him he hired the 3 biggest PR firms and became a "philanthropist" by giving away some billions while hiding most of his billions offshore pre-tax. The price to avoid lynching.
It was slightly left of center years ago. It has since been taken over by oligarchs, as has most of the mainstream media in the US, and now publishes what the ruling class wants people to see.
Welcome to the new Feudalism. Dissent, or contrary opinions, will lead to immediate banishment to the Lords demesne and a mark of 2,5k (or market rate of 120 hours labor) additional tax will be added to your monthly Tenant productivity requirements (transferable to living heirs upon untimely demise)
Remember in build up to the ACA we will keep hearing about how pple don't want the gov to come between them & their Dr. these same pple were good w/ for-profit coming between them & their Dr.?...
Also, that Biden made it clear he would not support universal healthcare if came to his desk...
Okay counterpoint. (And I can’t believe I’m making this argument, but here goes.)
What if the act of publishing this terrible op-ed isn’t so much a major media outlet platforming it but rather an outlet creating a (non-Reddit) forum for people to voice disdain?
Corporate culture in general. Everything has become a PR/marketing exercise. Politics is the same way because it's an imitation of the corporate model.
When I see headlines like this all I see is those scenes from succession where the suits are angry and insecure wanting to forcefully change the narrative through the waning power of media that they have
They're probably trying to think it through. Like what about their family. They can always get bodyguards for everybody, but after a while it would be pretty miserable. So they're going to throw us some crumbs.
“Tell the masses what they want to hear from you. We won’t hold you to account in any real way, but we need to lower the murder death kill vibe on high wealth leaders. Too many of them are importance to how we wield our own power.”
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Luigi has put a small tear in their curtain, just need a small dog to pull it wide open.
The more I've read about Luigi is that he is a Batman for our times. A wounded person who turns his energy to fighting crime. What UHG does should be criminal.
I believe Luigi will be set free. They won't find a jury to convict him.
Wheel out the Luigi.
Now let’s try the comments again with a little less thinking and a lot more “I love to suffer and die for your yachts. Huzzah!”
Good.
Witty says nothing about shrinking company profits and expanding benefits for subscribers.
Congress: what can we do about the diabetes problem
Coca Cola: subsidize (Big) sugar so people have better access to it!
Maybe someone should remind the CEO of NYT that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Kopit_Levien
Plutocracy in action. Scumbags.
I was starting to wonder.
https://bsky.app/profile/lipblue.bsky.social/post/3ldl4qkck522x
Any CEO serious about that will be fired and replaced.
WE must force change. THEY will never do it.
With the shooting of the UnitedHealthCare CEO in Manhattan, some have taken to airing their grievances about healthcare maltreatment. But was Thompson a bad apple or symbolic of a rotten apple barrel?
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
"Not like that"
( I don't mean murdered, lol )
Also, that Biden made it clear he would not support universal healthcare if came to his desk...
aka bullshit
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Deny, Defend Depose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFIB2J5iNC0
What if the act of publishing this terrible op-ed isn’t so much a major media outlet platforming it but rather an outlet creating a (non-Reddit) forum for people to voice disdain?
Closing the comments is akin to:
Let’s cut out the f**king middlemen
- says the flaw of the healthcare system. Irony