Summary

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has drawn attention due to the phrase “deny, defend, depose” reportedly written on the shooter’s ammunition, echoing criticism of insurer practices like “delay, deny, defend.”

UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest U.S. health insurers, has faced scrutiny over claim denials and delays, including a Senate report highlighting issues with Medicare Advantage prior authorizations.

The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media, reflecting widespread frustration with health insurers, which many blame for rising healthcare costs and access barriers.

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It’s literally the title of the book about their shitty tactics

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Not literally, unless you mean figuratively literally.

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Yes, but “deny, defend, depose” was on the casings.

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Don’t shop at Amazon. Use your local library. https://pdfupload.io/docs/0d380e9b

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Lol that book seems to be sold out or pulled from most online book stores.

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dont i have something better to do that correct you? book exists

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“Sparked public outrage”

Only reference in article is a link to another story discussing outrage on social media in general. AP is pushing a capitalist agenda.

I personally haven’t seen any outrage. Just that dark humor.

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The outrage was already sparked. That’s why he got shot.

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I’ve seen plenty of outrage.

It’s just all targeted at the insurance companies.

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I think you’re misreading this sentence: I think it’s clearly implying public outrage surrounding US health insurance, not about the killing itself. “The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media” pretty clearly implies to me that they mean the public outrage associated with the dark humor.

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“Humor”

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Haha. Yes. We all make funny jokes! We’re just joking right guys?

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In Minecraft

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The only outrage I’ve seen is directed towards mods on various platforms for locking community discussion about this incident.

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Lol, “humor”? People seem downright giddy, and it’s not a joke at all.

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My dad got fucked around by insurance until he spent the rest of his (probably shortened) life in a wheelchair. For profit insurance should be a crime, they’re all ghouls, fuck em all.

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“Sparked public outrage” Where? The CEO’s of America headquarters? I’ve literally only seen elation & humorous remarks.

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I think it’s been public outrage about health insurers tbh

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Oh yeah that’s fair

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“If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you.”

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Somebody lost someone and they correctly identified the person most guilty. That is what these people and their undeserved money fear. They fear when the riots start the people don’t trash their neighborhood for once but seek out those to blame and trash them. That is when you will see gun control become a priority.

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Sounds like a really roundabout way to get gun control but sure I’ll take it.

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Maybe you should re evaluate that. Like in ‘are we the baddies?’ style.

//Edit-
I am certainly not saying the CEO was anything other than a bad guy. I’m talking about being anti-gun.

IE, 'if when a guy with a gun kills someone we all agree is bad, and your takeaway from that is ‘yay now we can can the gun’, maybe you aren’t the anti-violence person you like to think you are.

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Won’t someone think of the rich?

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Yeah, it’s bad to kill someone with a gun but it’s okay to kill thousands with an AI-enabled claims denier.

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I’ve re evaluated. The CEO was still definitely the baddie.

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Yeah no. Gun ownership in the USA is fucking crazy. How the fuck can a country have regular school shootings and not ban guns or at least regulate them slightly.

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If someone dies and everyone celebrates, maybe they are the baddie.

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The killing has sparked public outrage

I legitimately haven’t seen a single person upset other than someone posting a screenshot of Tim Walz doing the typical tweet of condolences

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The average citizen is cheering every location I’ve looked.

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I’m outraged… The way that healthcare companies decide who gets to live and who needs to die for profit.

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It was only one CEO, that’s what’s outrageous. We can do better.

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Weirdly, I’ve seen a few .ml usernames complaining about how killing people is always evil, and that we’re evil for glorifying it

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I assume those people are trolls of the contrarian category.

People are too thrilled to be upset by trolling attempts about the topic. That’s actually impressive.

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You got to read more of the sentence:

The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media, reflecting widespread frustration with health insurers

The outrage isn’t about the killing. The outrage is about the health insurers. The killing is just the spark that got us all to talk about it.

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Reading? On the internet? What is this, Barnes and Noble?

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