Health Insurance CEO Killing

Discussions revolve around the murder of a UnitedHealthcare CEO, debating whether the company's denial of life-saving claims for profit equates to killing customers and justifies vigilante action.

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wholinator2 Dec 6, 2024 View on HN

Bro, I've just got to tell you. Everyone i knows is celebrating it. All of my close friends have been harmed by insurance madness, a machine built to extract money from the creation of human suffering, that's what denying claims for profit is. It's extracting money from pure pain. It's about as comically evil as you can get before you hit actual genocide, which just gives up the money part.Everyone i know is celebrating it. Our view is that these rich executives cannot be

yyuugg Dec 4, 2024 View on HN

This CEO, in particular, has almost certainly taken actions that resulted in preventable suffering and death.To some degree, that's the nature of running health insurance companies, but if he put profits ahead of patient outcomes, I think we could have a very reasonable discussion on the morality of letting people die at scale vs murder.

vjvjvjvjghv Oct 4, 2025 View on HN

I think murder is an appropriate term. There is a long history of company leadership making decisions that they know will lead to the death of thousands of people. See tobacco, opiates, leaded gas and many others. And they are not trying to help people while being greedy but they are only greedy without being motivated to help people.

icebraining Apr 2, 2018 View on HN

So deaths are OK as long as nobody profits from them?

8note Dec 7, 2024 View on HN

is it actually extreme? how many deaths was the CEO responsible for by what they prioritized to make profit for shareholders?why is it extreme for the CEO to die, but not for hus customers?

matt_morgan Apr 26, 2017 View on HN

I take issue with the title. Screwing some other corporate conglomerate is not worse than screwing people at risk of their lives.

paggle Nov 20, 2019 View on HN

Wouldn't make sense until you gave the same to the CEOs who actually kill people, like the creators of the opioid crisis

rbanffy May 5, 2017 View on HN

Don't you think it's fundamentally wrong to cause thousands of deaths every year for profit?

simsla Jan 6, 2020 View on HN

People dying, because cutting costs was considered more important than due diligence. Might doesn't make right.

bulletmagnet Oct 29, 2012 View on HN

Except if a bunch of people get killed, then you'll just look like a profiteering dick.