UnitedHealthcare CEO shot dead outside Manhattan Hilton hotel in ‘targeted attack’

[Nick H. Supervisor]

On 13/12/2024 at 16:37, Astra.Xtreme said:

This is a strange and ironic take...  The US govt is already made up of rich people that line their own pockets.  When members of congress have a yearly salary of $175k, but yet their net worth skyrockets into the millions, it's no secret what they're doing.  Corporations and the nation's richest have been funneling them money forever.
You say that the incoming admin striking down decades of work like it's a bad thing.  Clearly the US govt has been corruptly spending (wasting) far too much money and running itself into default, so why should we maintain that path?  The lower class has always suffered and the ever increasing inflation and costs of living have hurt them the most and keeps them down.  Come election time, the left panders for their votes, gets their votes, and then doesn't help them.  Rinse and repeat every 4 years.  The system clearly isn't working.  The waste needs to be eliminated so that the taxpayers aren't p*ssing away money on things that don't benefit them at all.  This is probably the first time that a major govt change will actually benefit not just the rich, but everybody.  Inflation will down and taxes can go down if the spending is under control.  Everybody should be rooting for that...

No there isn't going to be a new Revolution and public executions isn't coming back either.  Not sure why you'd even think that... 
This CEO being killed is just another example of a mentally unstable person that needed help or to be locked away.  It's pretty sick that people on the left are celebrating the guy.  First they rooted for the terrorists and now they're rooting for murders.  And they wonder why they lost the election...

*sigh* Ok, I'll play ball...

First off, I'm not sure what is ironic about the take. You're going to need to explain that to me, or maybe look up the meaning of irony.

To your point that the US government is already made up of rich people, I agree. But I'm sure you can understand the concept of a tipping point, and how from an outsider's perspective the US is getting there right now. It was written in the gorram manifesto as to why he did what he did.

Your next argument is that the regulations in place have hindered people. I agree that the regulations have hindered companies from doing what they want without any regard to the people. I'm going to take a stab and guess that you're anti-union?

The regulations that are getting removed hurts everyone, in the short and long term, and only benefits the companies and them that are in charge.

I also agree that the system clearly isn't working. A multi-billionaire shoving millions of dollars to his preferred party is not how things should be won.

We'll have to wait and see about inflation. Although I wouldn't put money on it coming down, as now that Trump has won even he admits that it probably won't happen.

"Public executions isn't [sic] coming back." You do realise what the topic of this thread is, right?

And finally, who are the terrorists in your second to last sentence?

[FloatingFatMan]

On 13/12/2024 at 21:01, Kyle said:

Kinda

90% error rate means that for claims which were checked by United's AI, 90% of them were incorrectly denied even if they should have been approved. AI wasn't checking every claim, but even as someone who can code well a 90% error rate is irresponsible and dangerous when people's lives are at stake. The real knife twist was that the United CEO who was murdered knew how bad it was and from what I understand actively pushed against fixing it despite people dying. 

You make it sound like this "error rate" is unintentional... They knew exactly what they were doing when they denied those claims... Insurance companies always do everything they can to wiggle out of paying up. The whole industry is nothing but corrupt.

[mudslag]

On 13/12/2024 at 10:37, Astra.Xtreme said:

 It's pretty sick that people on the left are celebrating the guy.  First they rooted for the terrorists and now they're rooting for murders.  And they wonder why they lost the election...

 

Why are you assuming it's only people on the left celebrating that guy? And what terrorists are you referring to?

[adrynalyne]

On 13/12/2024 at 17:32, mudslag said:

 

Why are you assuming it's only people on the left celebrating that guy? And what terrorists are you referring to?

That’s their MO, make everything have a political slant against liberals. No thread is safe from the nonsense.  

[FloatingFatMan]

On 14/12/2024 at 05:58, adrynalyne said:

That’s their MO, make everything have a political slant against liberals. No thread is safe from the nonsense.  

How dare you make this political thread about politics, you damned lefty!!  

[mudslag]

[neufuse Veteran]

On 17/12/2024 at 21:17, mudslag said:

we already have hotlines to report potential school shootings and threats........ the "Say Something" system..... and a lot of areas have a system called Safe2Say which is anonymous... so not exactly sure what they are getting at like there isn't already this in place

[DramaInc]

On 13/12/2024 at 16:13, FloatingFatMan said:

You make it sound like this "error rate" is unintentional... They knew exactly what they were doing when they denied those claims... Insurance companies always do everything they can to wiggle out of paying up. The whole industry is nothing but corrupt.

I used to work at some.  They have metrics for everything and that's how actuaries and stuff work.  

They'd call this "acceptable risk".  Now CEO's are gonna expect security with them and cry about how hard they have it.  

[mudslag]