Fury at Health Insurers Persists After the Killing of a Company Executive

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/unitedhealthcare-killing-luigi-mangione-affordability.html

https://archive.ph/XUrvU

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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 26 pts · 15d (5 replies)

No shit, United Healthcare board voted to replace the interim CEO with a more profit oriented executive and they've continued their rollout of AI claim handling and increasing denial rates.

Because CEOs are fuckin replaceable.

spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 15d

People who benefit from the downfall of society keep voting for the downfall of society! More at 11.

gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 15d (3 replies)

They are only replacable as long as someone wants to be the replacement. If enough of them get killed, no one would want to be the next one.

Counter example: Spinal Tap drummers

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 15d (2 replies)

Such humans are reproducing faster than you could throw your life away to remove, there has never been a successful nonpolitical solution to the problem of greed or corruption.

UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 13h (1 reply)

Tell that to the people who completed the Bolshevik Revolution AND THEN beat back the invaders during thr Russian Civil War right after loool!

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 0 pts · 13h

I will do so, go get gramps so I can tell him "YOU STUPID FUCKERS PUT UP AN AUTOCRACY WHOSE LEGACY STILL PLAGUES THIS EARTH!"

cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 15d (1 reply)

the phrase "corporate medicine" makes me wanna scream

lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 15d

Living in the "corporate medicine" country has turned me into a socialist.

Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 15d (2 replies)

It's often cheaper to fly to another country, or even just go without insurance, and yet we're paying astronomical rates for insurance. And there's any confusion why people are tired of the bullshit?

zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Yeup. And then there's tons of people like me, who desperately need and can't afford healthcare here, but can't even afford to do the cheaper option of going to another country for it. We just get to suffer as our bodies fall apart and rot, while we feel it all. It's just not right. Obviously, people are going to be pissed about it! If these big health insurance executives weren't so deep into their own little separate world, or maybe had a spread of empathy, they'd realize that. But, no... they'd rather hurt and kill countless people for a bit more money. But there's no prison time for them. No consequences at all, until Luigi.

UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h

Damn. Im sorry for you 🥺🫂