UnitedHealthcare CEO shot and killed in NYC

[Driftwood]

My niece is a nurse practitioner at an urgent care/walk in clinic type place. It was casually mentioned that she just got a $50K bonus.
Good for her.
But I'm sorry, if a place whose mission it is to take care of sick and injured people can dole out $50K bonuses, that is the problem with our healthcare system in the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!
The same country where I have personally witnesses people leaving prescriptions at CVS because they couldn't pay for them.

 

[I Should Coco]

Was at Walgreen's yesterday picking up some meds and noticed a sign on the pharmacy counter: "Our employees are people too. They work hard to treat you with respect ... please treat them respectfully, too."

I asked the young woman ringing up my order about it: "It's been really rough lately," she noted, as a couple Rite Aids in our town have closed, with all their pharmacy customers forced to use either Walgreen's, Walmart or Costco.

It's not the Walgreen's employees' fault that their pharmacy already was chronically understaffed, and now more so as a bunch of new customers are brought over from Rite Aid. So they have my sympathy ... but the corporate execs who run Walgreen's do not.

 

[HanSenSE]

Was at Walgreen's yesterday picking up some meds and noticed a sign on the pharmacy counter: "Our employees are people too. They work hard to treat you with respect ... please treat them respectfully, too."

I asked the young woman ringing up my order about it: "It's been really rough lately," she noted, as a couple Rite Aids in our town have closed, with all their pharmacy customers forced to use either Walgreen's, Walmart or Costco.

It's not the Walgreen's employees' fault that their pharmacy already was chronically understaffed, and now more so as a bunch of new customers are brought over from Rite Aid. So they have my sympathy ... but the corporate execs who run Walgreen's do not.

The Rite Aid we share a shopping center with has marked everything down 90 percent. I'm pretty sure the workers there are UFCW, since he union has been holding informational meetings on how to apply for unemployment, food stamps, etc. Hoping we're reaching out to some of the affected employees, we could use them.

 

[dixiehack]

They should put that sign up at HQ for all the pharmacy chains. I have a friend who is a pharmacist for CVS and they work her and her colleagues like they were at Carnegie Steel.

 

[dixiehack]

Remember, when United Healthcare kills people it is a profit line.





Dr Elisabeth Potter: I criticised UnitedHealth — now I’m facing ruin

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Honestly, this right here is the difference between us and this class of people.

We have a moral compass where we recognize that taking another person's life is inherently wrong. They don't. They don't care that people get sick. That people die. That people go broke. They don't give a ****. As long as the money flows, the revenues go up and the stock prices keep growing. Tylenol didn't care that they were accidentally poisoning people in the 1980s with cyanide. They cared that there was a public relations backlash and people stopped buying friggin' Tylenol. All that dying was killing business.

So while we sit here and mull over whether death for a human is acceptable, these people don't care.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

The judge overseeing the New York state case against Luigi Mangione dismissed terrorism charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but allowed other charges, including murder, to stand. ...

During a hearing in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, Justice Gregory Carro ruled that evidence presented to the grand jury wasn't sufficient to warrant the terrorism charge. It was Mangione's first appearance in state court since February.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/artic...1FDafY2XKd9AXHjqjnkUdNVdJ&bt_ts=1758032754079

 

[dixiehack]

He never should have been murdered. But now that we are here, no use wasting the larger lesson.

I’ll stand on this, even in light of recent events.