Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s (UNH.N), opens new tab insurance unit, was fatally shot on Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what appeared to be a targeted attack by a gunman lying in wait, New York City police officials said.

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UnitedHealthcare is the largest U.S. health insurer, providing benefits to tens of millions of Americans, who pay more for healthcare than in any other country.

“Based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear that the victim was specifically targeted, but at this point, we do not know why,” Kenny said.

You know, I think I can probably figure out why someone would shoot the UHC CEO.

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Could just be that we got lucky.

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There’s some dipshit in other threads that’s convinced the only reason this happened is because the guy was rich. No other motivating factors. The Stockholm syndrome in this country is fucking bonkers.

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Yeah, but I’m just super happy that the general random person response has been between the Oh Well, Anyway meme at worst, and glee at best.

I guess there is one thing the left and right in the US can agree on: shooting healthcare CEOs.

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I am sure them being the highest denier of claims has nothing to do with why someone would gun down the CEO https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-and-appeals

Good riddance

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Finally a bit of justice and accountability for CEOs.

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I kinda hope this inspires people.

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I challenge the government to give society a better path toward accountability for these financial terrorists. At least give people some options instead casting them out in the cold with nothing to lose.

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I hope this catches on like school shootings did, I always found it odd that people who wanted to go killing would target schools rather than the wealthy

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“I hope this catches on like school shootings did” New flair just dropped

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Because schools are easy targets that are often the constant targets of the people school shooters respect

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Good Guy Gunman.

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Hero I’d say.

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