Healthcare industry rethinks risk after murder of UnitedHealth exec

[Coventina]

NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Health insurance companies are reassessing the risks for their top executives after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday in Manhattan, with both UnitedHealth and rival CVS Health (CVS.N)
removing photos of their leadership teams from their websites after the shooting.

UnitedHealthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N) is the biggest U.S. insurer. CVS operates Aetna, another top insurer.

Thompson was killed in an attack police called targeted as he was about to enter the Hilton hotel for the company's annual investor conference. The gunman, whose crime was recorded on video, is at large and the New York City Police Department said there was no known motive for the murder.

Robert D’Amico, founder of Sierra One Consulting, who previously worked with the FBI, said the removal of photos showed, "These companies are hearing what experts like me have been saying about how easy it is to identify and then find their executives."

UnitedHealth took down Thompson's and other executives' photos from its website on Wednesday. A spokesperson did not respond to a query asking what the motivation was. CVS removed pictures of all its top executives on Thursday. The company declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/healthcare-industry-rethinks-risk-after-murder-unitedhealth-exec-2024-12-05/

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Way to miss the point, motherfuckers!!!!

[Ocelot II]

1. They'll give their execs more security but not likely to change their practices.

[FakeNoose]

23. That was my thought when this happened

The annual bonuses will go out to the executive boards, just like always. Nothing changes policy-wise for the insurance companies, they'll just start providing round-the-clock security for their top guys.

[dchill]

26. Premiums will have to be increased to pay for extra security...

Nothing can interfere with their important work on our behalf.

[Irish_Dem]

2. They will just get more expensive security and pass the costs to insureds.

They will never understand that what they do is wrong.

Greedy billionaires think everyone's money belongs to them.
They are justified in stealing it by any means possible.

[LearnedHand]

3. I had to laugh Coventina

[BannonsLiver]

4. Notice there's absolutely zero reflection on possible causes for what happened.

Just hey, let’s hire more security.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Does anybody think the companies will change?

[LoisB]

11. No.

[ecstatic]

7. smh. Removing pics to reduce risk? How about what Anthem just did--they backed away from a fucked up idea.

That's the type of risk assessment that should be happening.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219792844

[MadameButterfly]

34. That was a substantial and positive result. Maybe more

positive results will follow. Maybe this is the beginning of change.

I don't expect it to come voluntarily form the insurance industry. It will come from people better informed and energized and maybe a little from scared CEOs. Experiencing what their victims have experienced.

It will still be a long slog but I see this as a step toward single payer. People are learning so much, and not only on the left.

[malaise]

8. Tone deaf

on steroids

[Prairie Gates]

9. The article is the usual corporate ass kissing, but the headline is MWAAAH

Chef's kiss.

[UpInArms]

10. Insurance companies risk aversion response

Hide

[dalton99a]

12. "We gotta protect ourselves from the insureds. Let's raise premiums another 10%"

[soandso]

15. Executive security surcharge

and your claim is still denied.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[MadameButterfly]

35. It would be cheaper for them to stop denying legitimate claims

Lets keep up the pressure. We don't want security, we want to solve the reason they need security.

[Meowmee]

13. We don't know what the motive is yet but yes, obviously they're not going to change any of their policies

Regarding denying hc by ai or humans to make bigger profits.

* edit it to add I just found out from my brother that he signed up for UHC for his supplementary coverage to Medicare. So now I am worried, I hope he doesn’t need anything major because he can’t change it until the next open enrollment. He has just lost a lot of weight and is in very good shape so hopefully fingers crossed and then we will be leaving anyway at some point.

[Demobrat]

20. He'll be all right if he's not in an advantage plan.

The supplemental plan benefits are all the same. All plan Gs are the same across companies, plan Ns etc. If Medicare covers it they have to pay.

Provider’s offices love those plans. Their eyes light up when you hand over the card because they know they will get paid. No referrals, no approvals. An easy one! Yay!

[Meowmee]

21. Thanks, I'm gonna ask him if that's what he has.

* edited to add yes he is on the regular plan not the advantage plan because he knows the advantage plans are terrible. So he’ll be OK. Thank you so much.😀

[MadameButterfly]

36. Now that the issue is publicized there needs to be more publicity

If a Harris administration this would lead to positive change. With Trump? He won't listen, but sometime things getting really bad cause the pendulum to swing back

[Meowmee]

37. I hope so

But fear it will just worse under orange psycho.

[soandso]

14. Indeed, Coventina

Plus, I guess they don't know the internet is forever.

[Emile]

16. Predatory Capitalists have no shame. They

worship only one God MONEY 🤑

[onecaliberal]

18. Check their own risk, not ours. But we should be sad when there are consequences.

Nope.

[Karasu]

19. They need to rethink their damn existence.

[SunSeeker]

22. As usual, they're protecting their well-being, but not ours.

[OverBurn]

24. When these companies have to take down pictures and hide who is incharge........

Something just might be wrong with what they are doing. Fuck all of them. Universal healthcare for all!

[TheBlackAdder]

25. Watch the body count go up when Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid get pulled.

You'll have a whole bunch of people with little left looking to take out their tormentors.

[magicarpet]

29. You are likely correct,....

It ain't goin' to be pretty.

Wringing the last dollar out of the poorer people, backlash coming.

[Picaro]

27. Implicit Acknowledgment of the fact that the average CEO

Is a narcissistic amoral asshole.

[PedroXimenez]

28. they'll have to have some system to make sure their mercenaries don't have their claims denied

it's going to get complicated.

[usonian]

30. Risks for THEMSELVES.

F--- the customer, as usual.

[dobleremolque]

31. Oh, that'll really work. Not.

They've never heard of the internet way back machine?

[Farmer-Rick]

32. That was so off point

I thought at first it was an onion article.

Now that millions of people, who pay for healthcare insurance, can't get healthcare are shooting back, maybe CEOs shouldn't be such easy targets.

[Wonder Why]

33. My Fantasy: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Thompson but we are denying your husband's burial insurance

payment as our policy doesn't cover targeted murders as you will find in Article XI, Section 10, subsection A, sub-subsection i of your policy as amended last month with a notice sent by first class mail to you.. However, we can offer you a two-handled round coffin with plastic cover and blue recycle bag, in compensation".