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LiberalArkie

(16,658 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:34 AM Dec 6

Brian Thompson's ex-security shocked UnitedHealthcare CEO was unguarded after company's Minn. HQ rocked by protests

The Minnesota headquarters of UnitedHealth was rocked by large protests — where demonstrators chillingly marched around carrying a casket — just months before CEO Brian Thompson was executed in Manhattan Wednesday.

Thompson, 50, was stationed at the company’s headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where more than 100 demonstrators descended in April and July to protest an alleged “epidemic” of claims denials, according to the Wall Street Journal.

During the April protest, a group of demonstrators could be seen parading just outside one company building in nearby Eden Prairie as they hauled a wooden casket labeled, “UnitedHealth Denies Care.”

While the casket was supposed to be a symbol of the company’s alleged victims due to claim denials, it has now taken on another unnerving connotation following Thompson’s cold-blooded murder in Midtown.

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https://nypost.com/2024/12/05/us-news/brian-thompsons-ex-security-shocked-unitedhealth-ceo-was-unguarded-after-companys-minn-hq-rocked-by-protests/


Comment: a Man that had an AI built to automatically deny health care so that he could eliminate UHC employees that used to manage the claims. A win-win for him. More profits naturally means more compensation, not lower costs to consumers as was the case decades ago. Before the "Greed is good" principles took over.

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Brian Thompson's ex-security shocked UnitedHealthcare CEO was unguarded after company's Minn. HQ rocked by protests (Original Post) LiberalArkie Dec 6 OP
I'm thinking the shooter was probably... Think. Again. Dec 6 #1
Any CEO who uses AI for this purpose was incompetent, as well as heartless. Baitball Blogger Dec 6 #2
And very arrogant to boot. They are usually very paranoid people and to be out on the street at a known LiberalArkie Dec 6 #3

Think. Again.

(19,099 posts)
1. I'm thinking the shooter was probably...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:51 AM
Dec 6

....either one of those protesters or a plant to make those protesters look violent (aided by rightwing media such as this article from rightwing NY Post).

As we know from all sorts of recent protesters, instigators make up a good percentage of any protest crowd numbers.

Baitball Blogger

(48,434 posts)
2. Any CEO who uses AI for this purpose was incompetent, as well as heartless.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:41 AM
Dec 6

The worst kind of CEO. His company's widgets were people's welfare. And killing them off quicker with AI decisions, rather than allowing them to live through their illnesses, well, even if you were a cold hearted bastard, what kind of company survives if they keep killing off their customer base? Incompetent AND heartless.

LiberalArkie

(16,658 posts)
3. And very arrogant to boot. They are usually very paranoid people and to be out on the street at a known
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:58 AM
Dec 6

location with no security, no one around him.

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