Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO
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“When other’s human lives are deemed worthless, it is not surprising to have others view your life of no value as well,” wrote one medical doctor, whose identity the Daily Beast confirmed.

Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    49·
    15 days ago

    At least one of the mods here was going heavy censorship in the initial thread here yesterday. I get it, we aren’t supposed to celebrate the death or suffering of other human beings. I’m not sure that rule applied to this individual though.

    • gerbler@lemmy.world
      23·
      15 days ago

      People always forget the second part of that rule.

      We shouldn’t celebrate the death or suffering of other human beings… Unless that human being is a billionaire.

      Don’t like people celebrating your suffering? Give up your wealth. Easy as.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        7·
        15 days ago

        Anyone that doesn’t want themselces to experience the event of “winning capitalism,” and them dying should donate every single penny of their wealth over, and I’m being generous here, $100,000,000 to The Sovereign Fund for Humanity’s Poor, and ensure that they are always below the $100,000,000 threshold each quarter. Anything less is admitting that you want to be a charicature of a dragon. Dragons don’t amass more than $1,200,000,000 in wealth in any of High Fantasy. Other than Smaug. He might have hoarded as much as $5,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 in gold, and he’s literally the only outlier in all of High Fantasy.

        Shadowrun isn’t high fantasy, that is Science Fantasy, just like Star Wars.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
          2·
          14 days ago

          The thing is, if you don’t want to be a billionaire then that still leaves you - assuming normal rounding - with ~500 MILLION of wealth. If you can’t snort all the cocaine you’d ever want in your life from that amount, I don’t know…

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      31·
      14 days ago

      It still should. The paradox of tolerance just means you have to not tolerate the intolerant, not actively mock them. I mean sometimes that can be fun, but let’s be honest, they even took out the wrong guy (they’ll just get a new CEO who’ll hardline the stance even more and waste money on a ton of bodyguards, hopefully at least Gaddafi-style). Should have gone after the shareholders, that’ll really hurt the business model after all. The CEO is just a representative figure who puts his name under decisions that are 99,5% not driven by him.

      Was is still the correct choice to take him out because he is a billionaire and a murderous asshole? I’ll say no, because I don’t believe in death penalty on account of it being too lenient. Should have thrown him down a well and let him starve slowly, or at least delivered death by immurement or something. Something slow, ideally decades slow. But that’s besides the point, overall he also deserves fuck all sympathy because he was still a) a billionaire and b) the CEO of one of the most cruel companies around, rivaling black ops stuff and far outdoing them in the lives lost to their practices.

      • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        14 days ago

        Speaking of the pradoxof tolerance, Karl Popper realized that intolerance often involves violence.
        I, for one would argue that health insurance denying claims arbitrarily asserts violence in some way - even worse to especially vulnerable people.

        So how do you imagine not tolerating this kind of intolerance?
        Writing stern letters and emails? That seems to have happened.
        Starting a legal battle that might be decided in your favour after you’ve died from not receiving health care due to denied claims?
        What would you suggest?

        Popper also draws attention to the fact that intolerance is often asserted through the use of violence […]

        Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#Proposed_solutions