He’s flogging Chinese guitars now. Signature model $10,000
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Does that price include the trade tariff?
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I am sure Ted Nugent would play one at gigs and be open to a commission based side hustle.
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Monthly winner of the cunt of the month award
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Well, I wonder if this is going to become a trend…
Do you mean using a handy e-bike (or scooter) as a getaway vehicle or murdering the CEO of an organisation you might have some grievance against ? (The latter is speculative - I don’t think they’re certain about the killer’s motive are they ?)
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Both are an established thing.
The targeting of CEOs of that particular industry, well, I’m not in favour of murder in general, but I can understand why someone might think that a parasite might need eradication.
I suspect that this guy is the second victim of an insurance claim that got rejected.
Yes, given what I’ve heard about the health insurance companies in the USA, if anything, I’m surprised it’s taken this long for someone to go to these lengths (assuming it’s as a result of a rejected claim, of course).
And the standard police procedure of looking at a list of people who might have a grievance against this guy is going to generate a very, very long list.
My thoughts too.
Insurance companies play a “we’re nice” game but they obviously aren’t. They exist to make money, and the list of people who’ve paid premiums and who then have claims rejected is enormous.
The fat cats at the top feel insulated by the call centres and so on. sadly I doubt this sort of action will change much of that.
And with Trumps renewed plans to kill off Obamacare (a lot of people who voted for him wanted that gone but thought they’d keep the Affordable Care Act!), it’s only going to get worse.
This is the fundamental issue with using the private sector to provide public services (clue-in-the-name they’re supposed to be SERVICES).
My only first-hand contact with US health provision was in the late 80’s when I lived there. Back then genuine health insurance where, if you got sick, you claimed and the insurance would pay for the provider and the treatment you chose, seemed to be on its way out. Instead the majority of healthcare was coming to be delivered by Health Maintenance Organisations. These provided preventative care (you got to see something like a GP for a checkup once a year or so) as well as having their own hospitals and doctors where you would end up if you did fall sick. It made business sense from their point of view, and they could provide it more cheaply than ‘pay whoever for whatever’ insurance.
I should check with my bro, who still lives there, whether Americans are now calling HMOs health insurance or whether real insurance is still a significant player in the market.
Oh, I don’t know… Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
While I don’t necessarily condone a pour encourager les autres approach to negotiating with large companies, it could generate at least a temporary reset in how large companies behave. You can’t spend your ill gotten gains in the afterlife. What has definately given some pause for thought among similar figures in the industry is that the outpouring of naked glee in this case isn’t a left/right thing; Americans who would not naturally agree on anything else all seem entirely OK with it.
In the specific case of Brian Thompson, it seems his being alive as long as he was is something of a miracle. He was under investigaton by the DOJ over insider trading and was about to have to publicly discuss two massive data breaches in the last twelve months at United Healthcare. It’s not impossible that the order to have him shot came from someone a long way from being a disgruntled customer.
Given that this increasingly appears to be a hit carried out by a professional, someone who lost money to insider trading seems more likely. I suspect it costs quite a bit to get someone bumped off like this, and wealthy people can generally afford health insurance policies that don’t engage in the level of fucker UHC got up to.
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This could well all be connected to a security breach that occurred back in February, affecting 100 million people. The breach targeted Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, and hackers reportedly took huge amounts of sensitive data.
UnitedHealth paid $22 million in Bitcoin to the ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat, but even after the payment, UnitedHealth didn’t regain access to their systems.
Instead of telling anyone, they waited, hoping the hackers would follow through. They waited
months.
While United sat on their hands (receiving payments and premiums), doctors couldn’t get paid. Patients were denied coverage and medical treatments. Pharmacies were unable to process prescriptions because of the disruptions.
United claimed the problems were being addressed, but nothing changed.
Ultimately it got so bad that the doctors’ offices were unable to function so they collectively went to United and complained. United told them it wouldn’t be much longer and agreed to “help” them with short-term loans… with interest. By mid-year, UnitedHealth had issued $8.9 billion in loans.
More time passed, with no change. Doctors’ offices went bankrupt so United “helped” them again by buying them out for pennies on the dollar resulting in UnitedHealth now owning a huge number of doctors’ offices and health insurance operations. Surely this is a massive conflict of interest?
The DOJ has been working on this as a fraud and insider trading case.
The CEO of UnitedHealth, Brian Thompson, was shot and killed by a so far unidentified masked, hooded man using a silencer. Footage shows he is familiar with his weapon, suggesting a professional hit, but he also made an amateur mistake by being caught on camera at a local Starbucks just before the attack.
Removing high ranking officials names from employee lists available to the public suggests the companies have no intention of changing their ways - probably “it’ll all blow over” comments being made in boardrooms across the US - but that they will pay lip service to protecting their staff.
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TLDR
Corporate cunts
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Citing anonymous “high sources”, New Jersey Republican representative Jeff Van Drew said that they were coming from an Iranian “mothership” in the Atlantic.
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Can other countries ban unvaccinated Americans from entering?
They probably think polio involves posh people on horseback twatting a ball around with hammers…
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This report is very detailed and interesting, if true. Would you kindly cite your source so that I could read further?
