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Social media comes through after murder of US healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

On Thursday 5 December, a masked shooter killed Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, in New York. Unsurprisingly, but to social media’s amusement, many people across the US have been discovering that condolences are very much an out-of-network benefit.

One TikTok user commented:

I’m sorry, prior authorization is required for thoughts and prayers

My personal favourite was a song written by Philip Labes:

@philiplabesAnd medical violence is always wrong, but only when it flows one way♬ original sound – Philip Labes

Brian Thompson: CEOrial killer?

During Brian Thompson’s time as CEO, United implemented AI with a 90% error rate. Obviously, they knew about it:

Currently, 25% of Americans delay getting healthcare because of the ridiculous costs. Doctors could have treated many of these people quickly, and easily. Instead, some will end up dead:

Meanwhile, across the US legal teams are hitting United Healthcare for denying mental healthcare to people who need it, citing them having too many sessions as the reason. This is despite them not actually mentioning session limits in their insurance plans:

Message received

In the wake of Brian Thompson’s shooting, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield decided to halt their plans to limit reimbursements for anaesthesia during surgery and medical procedures. Clearly, someone got the message – or their eyes on a hit list:

Other insurance companies have decided to delete information about their leadership teams from their websites:

Despite calls from law enforcement to try and track down the shooter, New Yorkers are not playing ball:

With one person even suggesting a lookalike competition for the shooter, in his bedroom:

Maybe someone should have checked the bullet wasn’t already in his head? If so, that sounds an awful lot like a pre-existing condition to me:

@chaosrat The bullet was already in Brian Thompson’s head. His head just did that. #thoughtsandpriorauths #denydeposedefend #anotheronebitesthedust ♬ original sound – ☆乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

Hopefully Mr Thompsons family know grief counselling isn’t considered medically necessary, or covered by their insurance plans.

In all seriousness, I, or the Canary do not condone murder, or violence of any kind.

However, it shouldn’t take  someone murdering a CEO for another insurance company to reverse their shitty policy. Similarly, we are watching thousands of people die in Palestine, Sudan, and the DRC, but where are the mainstream media?

Someone shoots one CEO billionaire muppet and suddenly murder is bad and ‘help us bring a criminal to justice’. Meanwhile, you have as accused rapist heading for the presidency.

Make it make sense.

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By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.