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    AOC zur Ermordung des CEO von UnitedHealthcare: Die Menschen betrachten abgelehnte Ansprüche als „Gewaltakt“


    AOC zur Ermordung des CEO von UnitedHealthcare: Die Menschen betrachten abgelehnte Ansprüche als „Gewaltakt“

    https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/12/aoc-on-ceo-killing-people-see-denied-claims-as-act-of-violence.html

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    4. TerminalObsessions on

      If I pay you for a service and you refuse to provide it to me, that’s a crime.

      If I pay you for a service and you write a labyrinthine tangle of policies, hire a team of lawyers, and hope I die before I get the service, that’s capitalism.

    5. ClassicHando on

      One man shoots and kills another guy. He’s got the blood of that murder on his hands. 

      The company that guy controlled services ~30 million Americans. If some of the reports I see are true, they have somewhere in the realm of 30% denials so close to a third. That’s 10 million people getting denied and who knows how many claims. There’s no chance every one of these was fine and didn’t cause pain or death. The numbers are too large. 

      Even at incredibly conservative estimates that’s likely tens of thousands of deaths that were preventable with care. Brian Thompson wasn’t a murderer, he was a serial killer who assuaged his guilt with “I’m not the one killing them”.

    6. Tony2030 on

      I love the faux outrage. “When *we* do it – it’s just ‘business’. When *they* do it, it’s ‘violence’. Will someone *please* think of the billionaires!”

      The American Aristocracy is alive and well, folks – it just went underground.

    9. SpageteMonstr42069 on

      Honestly I’m reaching a point where I don’t give a fuck about the moral or philosophical argument. The system is so ungodly fuckin rigged against anyone without inherited wealth that the Bernie way of politics is as real as the American Dream. Everyone is going to suffer because of the actions of a few.

      Buy the ticket, take the ride

    10. TabbyTuxedo06 on

      A middleman that prevents access to something by forcing you to pay, only to deny when you need it, is a mafioso.

      A business that makes more money when they DON’T do what they’re paid for is despicable.

      A business that is the root cause of the majority of bankruptcy and homelessness in the country is disgusting.

      A business that causes the deaths of approximately 68,000 people a year has serial killers as CEOs.

      It is violence.

    11. spinek1 on

      If an insurance claim denies your necessary medical care, they should have to pay back the entire amount of premium you’ve paid to date. If insurance can wrongfully deny claims with impunity, it’s not insurance. It’s a tax.

    13. TailorWinter on

      How could you not… You are going to die or have less of a life unless they pay for it but they just don’t want to because it is expensive, so you die or have less life so they can have a better car. Fuck them. The only country that does not have universal healthcare. It is only about making the rich super rich ever since 1974 when they made healthcare for profit in America, we have been fucked

    14. yojimbo1111 on

      Brings to mind the last two stanzas of Woody Guthrie’s ‘Pretty Boy Floyd.’

      “As through this life you travel, you meet some funny men.
      Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.

      As through this life you ramble, as through this life you roam,
      You’ll never see an outlaw take a family from their home.”

      In the case of parasitic insurance-for-profit and mass Social Murder it’s “some kill you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.”

    16. AdventurousPolicy on

      Is it fair to say that people choose their government when in fact none who I have ever met had any say in the form of government to which they were subject?

      Indeed, the very concept of governments has once again been corrupted and marginalized so as to be especially ineffective at impacting the daily lives of their respective citizens. What I see in the world today is plethora of monarchies each of whom plays the great game according only to what they can get away with in the jurisdictions where they do business.

      When multinational businesses exceed the GDP of entire nations it is imperative for the free people of the world to recognize that company as a form of government imposed upon them by the elite, no different in its function of oppression from previous forms of monarchy.

      Who tells you where to be in the morning? Who tells you what to think about all day? No really, think about it. Does the government control our lives, or do they bestow that loathsome title on the little monarchies who rob us all of our worth as human beings and wring every last drop of value from our blood.

      In my opinion, free citizens of the Earth should stand up and demand better treatment, an equal voice, and an equal share of the surpluses brought by their labor. Next time a capitalist offers you a discount you would do well to remind them how little their trinkets are really worth.

    17. blackmobius on

      They see it as theft.

      We pay premiums for years, so that I can then be billed 15$ for a single Advil. I gotta pay each month, then 5k$ more, *then* my insurance will start paying *sometimes*. The overwhelming majority of us get nothing from insurance aside from another bill to pay. And then when we finally finally *finally* submit something…. Insurance says no

    18. Arkmer on

      Medical care is the effort of a society. When medical coverage is denied, it’s the violence of a society.

      I could probably use different verbiage here, but I see this as societal violence.

    19. xBoatEng on

      If denying claims is an act of violence, revoking the polio vaccine should be seen as an act of war.

    21. Successful-Trash-409 on

      Justifiable health care to extend life that is denied by non-medical professional is manslaughter imho.

    23. Corsaer on

      I think he’s as faceless to us as all the faceless suffering humans they denied claims to. Why should we care about this one, when they don’t care about millions?

    24. dogoodsilence1 on

      If UHC only did the one thing they are supposed to do then non of this happens.

    26. Prestigious_Carpet60 on

      Denying an insurance claim is not an “act of violence”, though. Only an idiot would say that.

    30. BeetFarmHijinks on

      Just a reminder that the UnitedHealthcare CEO systematically murdered more people, including sick children, then Osama bin Laden ever did.

      And the UnitedHealthcare CEO did it for profit.

      He literally filled his swimming pool with the tears of parents whose children he killed.

    31. oregiel on

      I mean the CEO threatened the shooter and he feared for his life limbs or eyesight and acted in self defense? Seems reasonable.

    32. SwishSwashMouthWash on

      Does anyone here care if another CEO dies? Asking for myself

    33. Truth_Vomit on

      I have to say historically more people have been killed by pen on paper than with a bullet. The masses need to come to that realization. We must proactively and continuously work towards holding our lawmakers accountable for protecting us from companies profiting from avoidable death. Trouble is we are being outspent as lawmakers currently are on sale and the masses votes don’t outweigh the money thrown at legislators. We are all created equal but the monetization of our lives has revealed that only some of us hold that truth to be self evident. Some of us are sold for a song.

    34. Kannigget on

      AOC is right in this case. On the other hand, I also see the progressive support for Palestinian terrorists as an act of violence and an act of hate. That’s why I’ll never vote for progressives again. They’ll never get my donations again either. Progressives destroyed the progressive movement by siding with Islamic extremists.

    35. SnivyEyes on

      The CEO has more blood on his hands than the shooter. That’s a simple fact.

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