Healthcare Reform
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DevoHusker
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warning: actual shooting footage captured
funhusker
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When I think about it, it's actually a surprise this is the first time it happened. And yes, it was definitely cold-blooded.
funhusker
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Yeah....he "accidentally" missed on his first shot so he continued to shoot several more times!
Guy Chamberlin
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When they called it a cold-blooded hit I immediately thought of some high-up corporate payback, or gambling/cocaine debt, or inside job preventing him from announcing something at the investors meeting.
But a guy in a hoodie taking out revenge for denied coverage way down the UnitedHealthcare food chain makes more sense, and like Funhusker I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I spent 2 hours on the phone Monday with an Apple senior customer service rep trying to figure out why I had been locked out of my Apple account and why they couldn't let me reset my password --- and it's still unresolved. The inconvenience to me is pretty minor, but at the end of two hours I was considering spending the rest of my life seeing to the destruction of Apple.
So I imagine someone only slightly less hinged than me, with far more legitimate grievance, feeling disrespected and helpless, and suddenly gunning for the CEO is not that big of a leap.
I'm pretty sure the guy will get caught and we'll get the full story. You don't leave inscriptions on your bullet casings if you don't want your story heard. I think the wife knows a bit more of the story herself.
Dr. Strangelove
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This is wild.
And the people on the left celebrating this are absolutely brain dead. Populism on the left is just as stupid as populism on the right.
Seems like capitalism? Why are we mad?
If we don't like it, the American public should vote for people to write laws that regulate this kind of thing. The American people apparently hate regulation, as evidenced by their vote for a Presidential candidate who campaigned on getting rid of regulation and red tape. If people were genuinely mad about this, they'd vote differently. They aren't mad about it so they don't.
Dr. Strangelove
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Maybe we should regulate health insurance denial claims instead of *CHECKS NOTES* electing the Presidential candidate who openly ran on cutting regulations.maybe this would narrow the suspect list?
This is not directed at you, but this is directed at the populist left.
RedDenver
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Guy Chamberlin
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I can't always tell where your sarcasm begins and ends, but people are genuinely mad about runaway healthcare costs and outrageous money grabs by the already wealthy. But they are almost never walked through the linkage that would lead them to vote against it, and in fairness it's a pretty muddy chain of command that neither Democrats nor Republicans want to take on.
You could argue that a lot of genuinely angry Americans voted to Drain The Swamp for this very reason, but failed to notice that they just swapped alligators.
Still not clear how the populist Left fits into this.
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Dr. Strangelove
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Sorry for being unclear, I'm referring to the populist left in spaces that seem to be celebrating this.
If citing denial rates is something that people want to do, that's fine. But lets acknowledge that populism is stupid whether or not it's right wing, which Trump represents, or left wing, which Bernie Sanders represents. This, to me, seems to be left-wing coded and it's nonsense to blame anybody other than the moron who decided to kill the CEO of a company.