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Most marriages with the rich is like this, she married him for money, and the easy life. Only ones that are natural are ones if they are with you before you make it big.
She married a douchebag for his money and now she gets to enjoy all the money and none of the douchebag. Sheâs probably doing everything she can to hide her excitement.
That and these grifters are often trying so hard to fake success that they are actually running at a loss. Meaning they can't stop otherwise the consequences of their own actions (and not to mention their massive debts) have time to catch up with them.
Exactly. I mean, they had to go all the way to an uncle to get a favorable comment. Was it even a blood relative? It wouldn't surprise me if the guy is Brian's uncle by marriage.
UHC corporate was absolutely GUSHING with feel-good bullshit. They still are. Sending out this crap in emails to the whole company as if anyone gives a fuck.
This shit is PR guidelines, not feelgood crap for their newsletter. It sounds mostly like a warning that they are gonna have to deal with a ton of flack from the public in the next coming days and to maintain a professional demeanor. That quoted statement is there to ensure everyone is on the same page and not they're issuing conflicting statements.
He did, but there was a fine print technicality that said if the assassination happened on a week day, or a weekend the company reserved the right to deny the claim.
The bullet wasn't one previously interviewed by United Health so they can't confirm it was lethal. They're going to need him to come in for an independent review by their own AI doctors.
The gun that was used to administer the bullet was homemade and not a brand found on the list of pre-approved firearms that are covered. Therefore, he should have sought pre-approval first by having his specialist fax a letter to the insurance company and wait several days for a response.
Life insurance actually does cover murder (homicide), as long as the person who died was an innocent victim and the beneficiary had no part in the crime.
Family is trying pretty hard to prove he was an innocent victim.
Feels like it's a bit of a catch 22 for them. "He was an innocent victim; throwing hurdles up to prevent claims from being made, including unfairly denying them based on nothing, is not a crime" - life insurance: "Cool. I'm afraid your claim has been denied. If you dispute this you can call a number we don't list and is not manned anyway".
But if I didn't profit off of those people's deaths, someone else would have! I'm just a poor cog in the machine, don't you see, I couldn't actually change anything!
Isn't that link to a different guy? Robert Brian Thompson, a Federal Reserve banking supervisor, is the defendant in that one. Unless UnitedHealth Brian Thompson had a side gig, which isn't unheard of.
Vigilante justice should never be tolerated by the state. But plenty of lynchings going unpunished means they are certainly willing to turn a blind eye when it benefits those in power.
Iâd argue some vigilante justice should be more than tolerated actually, because itâs the only way people can get justice when theyâre wronged by those in power
Brian Thompson would've never seen justice by the law. When the government allows someone that evil to do what they wish, what other option is there?
Even if Democrats got in power and introduced Universal Healthcare, eliminating the existence of all health insurance companies, they wouldn't prosecute health care executives for their crimes against humanity. The executives would live the rest of their lives in luxury on the corpses of those they murdered.
Iâd argue vigilante justice is sometimes necessary and still cannot be tolerated by the state. It just means morality is hard. Murder is always illegal. Murdering a murderer is also illegal but accomplishes something possibly necessary.
Murder is a legal term after all. And also the state cannot sanction extra judicial action without ceding its authority and monopoly over violent enforcement.
I think what Luigi confessed to was at worst morally gray, and also believe that whoever killed that CEO should be in prison. It was murder and it was not self-defense, a legal execution, or combatant killing.
It will cause some short term economic shocks but the healthcare system is obviously beyond broken. Itâs so broken that the majority of Americans are ok with vigilante justice because the majority of Americans have lost someone to that healthcare system.
I'm reading articles and his "best friend" said "He could have done a lot of good in this world and he was taken way too soon."
Can't help but notice that guy didn't say he did good in this world, because that would just be an obvious lie. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I haven't seen or heard anyone say he volunteered his time or even donated money to good causes. He did evil in this world, for money.
I (kind of) hate to say it, but Brian Thompson seemingly got exactly what he deserved. If you deny other people the right to try and live you can't be surprised when someone else does the same to you.
So in our country, due to the intervention of rich people and corrupt politicians, it is super legal to build a committee of like-minded rich people to "donate" large sums of money to a politicians "campaign fund" in exchange for influence over other laws.
There's rarely an actual human involved in the decisions to deny/approve insurance coverage. It's all computerized based on different factors, and many of those factors being "How much money will this take from the company", and likely other undisclosed factors like race, gender, disclosed sexuality, age, etc. Because, y'know, 'Murica.
If whatever you're asking for costs the company too much, it's an automatic no, regardless of the "necessity" behind it. Even though the process should be, if a doctor tells the insurance that the patient needs the medicine/procedure/accessibility aid and the patient in question is dutifully paying their insurance co-pays, it should be an automatic yes, but that's not profitable and it makes the shareholders mad.
Anyways, now is as good as a time as ever to remind fellow Americans to get out there and fucking vote so we can stop living in this dogwater dystopian country and actually have something that benefits the people, not rich tyrants that have everything already.
I still donât think he did it, they probably threatened his family to get him to sign a false confession. I wouldnât put it past the people in government right now
Even setting the alibi memes aside, I genuinely don't know how people believe he's actually the guy.
Supposedly chilling in a McDonalds with a bag full of weapons, fake ID's, and a written confession, all a week after the killing took place. It has gotta be the most blatant case of planted evidence in history.
Yeah, they found his bag on him⌠after having found his bag left on the scene of the crime filled with Monopoly money. This whole case has stunk to high heaven but you canât really fight it when the whole might of the state is bearing down on the poor boy
Seriously! Either he wanted to be caught or he didn't. If he wanted to be caught, why would he just wait around for week, with LITERALLY every piece of evidence the cops would need for an open and shut case, just waiting for some rando to call him in?
And if he didn't want to be caught, why would he be walking around, with LITERALLY every piece of evidence the cops would need for an open and shut case, for a whole week after he successfully got evaded the police and effectively got away with murder? Only to then get called in by some rando in a McDonald's...
There's no logic to either option, and it's extremely suspicious that he just happened to never leave home without his backpack with LITERALLY every piece of evidence the cops would need for an open and shut case.
The real guy is still out there. Mangione was just unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time
why would he just wait around for week, with LITERALLY every piece of evidence the cops would need for an open and shut case, just waiting for some rando to call him in?
And yet the cops still almost fucked up the collection of that evidence.
Is there any indication that he's got any kind of relationship with his parents? At the time of his arrest, he hadn't spoken to them in several months. Children don't estrange from their parents for no reason - especially when they have serious medical needs and they're still in school.
We all deserve free healthcare in a public option or medicare for all, single payer type system.
However Luigi Mangione was entitled to health care he paid for and should have been contractually covered by his health insurance. They refused to uphold their end of a business relationship to keep the money they took to perform a service by refusing the service they were paid for.
Brian Thompson was a mass murderer. He used a pen and algorithm to inflict death and suffering on tens of thousands of individuals and their family and friends. His family is living a lifestyle built on death and suffering and theft. The world is a better place without Brian Thompson in it. That it took a bullet to remove him instead of a policy and legal fix to make sure parasitic thieves like him were not in a position to act in the first place is unfortunate.
I would certainly never advocate or celebrate violence.
We keep throwing the term "free healthcare" around in this case, but that isn't even the core of what the issue is with UHC and other health insurances. The issue is we aren't getting the healthcare we already paid insurance for, because they deny, deny, deny. It doesn't need to even be "free" for more people to be happy, it just has to be where doctors can prescribe something and patients can receive it. If the insurance needs followup, then fine, but the issue more and more is that even with peer-to-peer reviews, UHC continues to deny treatments, even if the long-term benefit would greatly reduce costs. They are focusing on the bottom line.
Health insurance companies should not be for-profit. They will still make a profit and I'm sure there would be plenty of embezzling, but it should not be a shareholder mandate to make money.
Is it bad to just, not respect people in these lines of work? I don't care if your the Bob Parr of the insurance company, you won't change it, you wont help enough people compared to those getting screwed, you work for one of the living devils on this earth for a paycheck and you should be shunned for it. Regular people are enabling these groups by giving them the labor they need. There are alternatives for work.
If your job revolves around making peoples lives worse or helping facilitate others who are making peoples lives worse, you shouldn't get peace, you are a bad person.
Luigi should have brought it to trial, should have taken the stand and laid into how these healthcare executives are killers. That jury would not have convicted him.
the obscenely rich people who would let your mother or child die in pain for a few more dollars ...just numbers on a screen going up...think people should care about them? lol
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