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LiberalArkie

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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 [View all]

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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