Wait, why are we all assuming that UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot by someone denied coverage [View all]

or a relative of someone denied coverage?

I guess I'll be the first to suggest that he...

* Brought all the shareholders to a meeting, sat them all down, and showed them this story titled 'Anthem Insurance issues new edict to cap anesthesia coverage at a time limit', and he could have said "Now this is some bull right here, we will NEVER participate in such dystopian nonsense as this", nothing was stopping his brain from doing that, and that would have definitely ticked off shareholders and Anthem as well. Could have hypothetically happened.

* Said that in a call that the idea of "menstrual surveillance" was absolutely asinine and that he would have devoted UHC resources to a legal fund protecting the medical and insurance records that will fight to protect every file from being ogled over by prosecutors looking to investigate miscarriages. That would have also made shareholders absolutely angry if he planned on doing just that. It could have happened, right?

* Shared this report with his department in research titled 'Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'' and said "WHOA! This is unconscionable, guys! This is not only out of some evil nightmare, this flies in the face of what insurance should be about! Let's start supporting ways to get rid of diseases once and for all!" I'm sure Goldman Sachs could afford a hitman.

* Summoned up all the other health insurance CEOs and administrators in hospitals and said "Hey, hey, hey... did you know that the United State spends more on healthcare than every other western/global north country and yet does not have the life expectancy to go with that? Just look at this! This is not acceptable, my dudes! "World's greatest healthcare system" HAS to mean something! And if it doesn't change, and change soon, then I am going to start naming names to the public! Patients have to start coming first, this is unacceptable!" Nothing was stopping his brain from forming those words. And those words and promises for action might have caused someone else in the healthcare field to send someone after him. Could have happened.

I might also be a Kryptonian, but one of these examples of him doing the right and decent thing could have totally happened and that is what led to his death. So it seems a little hasty to assume it was someone denied coverage or a relative of someone denied coverage.