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The shooting is being investigated as a possibly targeted hit, sources said.
For years now I've wondered why health insurance companies haven't been the regular target of violence by clients who's lives they've destroyed. They're unique institutions because of how they regularly condemn people to death right to their faces for the most bullshit unjust kafkaesque reasons. I guess maybe a situation like that just sucks the life out of you too much to get motivated by revenge.
I think most people have too much to lose/too much on their shoulders.
I have two kids and a spouse, if some bean counter at a health insurance company took one of them away I'd be beside myself with grief, but I'd also know that the other two needed me now more than ever. Can't go to prison.
I think people with basically only one strong bond might be more likely to snap, but even for them depression and survival instincts probably make it hard to end up with adventurism.
Honestly same. The healthcare industry has ruined countless people's lives, it's almost shocking something like this hasn't happened before
Recently had a very personal and active role in someone's journey of discovering they had cancer to eventually dying from it.
Every step of the way I was left speechless and horrified at how little her "insurance" was willing to cover, at how we were denied what I consider to be even the most basic degree of care for someone going through the painful, boring, terrifying, demeaning descent towards the end of her life. How many dozens and dozens and dozens of times I had to console her daughter, frantic and crying in disbelief that not only was she losing her mother, but also that we were constantly having to question our ability to afford the care she was being given, never for a single moment being able to wrestle with the tragedy of cancer killing her mother without also having to stare down the constantly rising cost of merely a fraction of the care that she both needed and deserved.
So uh yeah, fuck this guy and everyone like him. Fuck this whole system and everyone who benefits from the unfathomable scope of suffering it wreaks upon innumerable individuals and the people who love them.
Rot in hell, loser.
this should be a regular feature of American life
CEOs should be afraid to walk down the street, especially "healthcare" ghouls
They are. I have been Never been in the same room as a ceo. Probably never even in the same zip code. If they lived around regular people they would for sure get got on occasion. I know about one vacation city where you have to fly in or out.
if you do adventurism we disavow
but if you do
don't
but IF you do.....
we disavow and you're not a real poster on hexbear, just a lurker.
so don't do it. But if you do....
we disavow
So I'm not going to encourage adventurism please don't do it. Dying on your own is not the way to build revolution.
But also I have been increasingly surprised people who are fucked by shit that companies like this do don't go do something about it. Guns are amazingly easy to get in the US and information is easy to find.
This is going to end up being random or an organized crime hit rather than some dude who did something based, because nothing ever good happens, but I won't be surprised at all when people who are increasingly kept down by assholes like this start taking matters into their own hands.
I have been expecting terminally ill suicide bombers or spree shooters to hit insurance company offices (or even hospitals) for a long time and it keeps not happening, what are all the guns even for
I'll take the W but I was thinking the same thing too that this is probably an organized crime hit. Sad to say your average american is less likely to take matters into their own hands because they want to "work hard" and become the boss themselves doing the oppressing.
Americans rather blame others like themselves rather than all the CEOs and shareholders who benefit the most from fucking them over.
I've always wondered the same thing - probably thousands of people have been fucked over by insurance companies, a lot of them are going to be terminally ill, it's shocking that this doesn't happen more often.
Lmao
On mobile and I can't remember the name so I can't post the sicko cyclist emoji
When my sibling was dying of cancer and needed around the clock care because they couldn't walk, talk, or take care of themself in any capacity, insurance cut their nursing to 0 hours per week because they were "getting better" after previously refusing to pay for their hospital stay because they weren't getting better and basically sent them home to die
Anyway I'm gonna have a nice dinner in celebration of this news and in memory of my sibling
Thots and prayers!
No arrests have been made and police did not provide a description of the suspect.
Thank you Batman!
Definitely dont aim for Andrew Witty, CEO of UHG, the parent company to UHC, next. That would certainly be awful and immoral, not to mention illegal!
Look, when I'm terminal, whether that be young or old, you'd better believe I'll be more sympathetic to adventurism. Gonna get real into shooting as a hobby and curious about oil and healthcare executive meetings. Just some fanciful interests of a dying man, where's the harm in that?
Wow. I didn't know that. I just - you're telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agree or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I'm actually saddened to hear that. Thank you very much.
Oh wow, this is the insurance I have with my job, and they are so nice to not cover my anti-depressants or my son's asthma medication. Good for him!
Which one of his thousands of victims or family members of victims might it have been?
From The Guardian. If the caller and the shooter turn out to be the same person then her mentioning of "a lack of coverage" might suggest that this was done by someone UnitedHealthcare fucked over.
Regardless of the actual reason this shitheel got got, the social murder he’s presided over is why he deserved it.
Basically, I don't know, a lack of coverage?
:clueless:
The driver's description of the shooter sounds like something out of a movie. Black ski mask, suppressed pistol, 6'1" man.
Unlimited :gun-hubris: on every healthcare administrator and insurance demon.
LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO 
This is good energy for my job interview
Shooting these parasites is self-defense
RFK Jr. working fast
I'm just getting started.
Adventurism aside, all "healthcare" CEOs deserve much worse. RIP bozo, hope whoever did it is cool, and if they are, they're never found.
Direct Action
I'll forgive Biden for pardoning his son if he pardons the hero responsible for this
US gun crime finally gets it right
It's probably gonna be some anti-trans activists that thinks United's policy of gender care is too broad.
Fucking FINALLY thank you. Using all those guns for something good.
