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Xolodno

(6,760 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:21 PM Dec 5

Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO [View all]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/medical-subreddit-deletes-thread-unitedhealthcare-155829903.html

Doctors in one of the Internet’s top medical communities have turned on the murdered UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson in such brutal fashion that Reddit moderators deleted a thread on the killing.

The moderators of r/medicine closed the thread, posted Wednesday after news broke that Thompson was shot dead outside the New York Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan, after it racked up over 500 replies.

The commenters overwhelmingly criticized—and satirized—the insurer’s alleged denial of coverage to sick and dying Americans in order to juice profits.

The top comment, which received hundreds of supporting upvotes from other users, mocked UHC’s notorious track record for refusing to pay out insurance claims and is written as a lengthy, spoof rejection letter from the company.

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This guy may have been one of the most hated people in the healthcare insurance industry. Not only did patients despise them, but the doctors as well.

My question is, where were the regulators? Who green lit their policies?

I was supposed to have a CT scan done on my back today, I used to be an avid hiker, now I can't even walk a quarter of a mile without it hurting and I can feel at times tenderness between two vertabrae. Company uses UHC, guess what they did yesterday? Last minute asked for more info from the doctor, so the usual "Delay" scam. Moved the appointment to next week, by then they should have the extra info. Company is dropping them like a bad habit this year and going to Blue Shield. Wonder, they had mentioned that they were having a "number of problems" with UHC. Wonder if I have to wait until January.

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Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO [View all] Xolodno Dec 5 OP

Kick dalton99a Dec 5 #1

"Discount Care Clinic" soandso Dec 5 #5

That is brilliant and like all great satire, achingly true. yardwork Dec 5 #6

UHC is one of the reasons the mental health delivery system was destroyed. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #7

That's the reddit post? That is brilliantly savage. Hekate Dec 5 #18

Killer Satire bikes and bunnies Dec 5 #35

We medical providers are sick of the health insurance scammers' shit. Aristus Dec 5 #2

I had my monthly appointment with a MH therapist today. yardwork Dec 5 #8

I worked in the mental health field for 40 years. UHC is truly evil. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #10

That's just... awful. yardwork Dec 5 #15

Perhaps a few thousand of us ought to begin showing up at investors meetings Magoo48 Dec 5 #40

Some days I spent more time on the phone with insurance companies than seeing patients. Irish_Dem Dec 5 #9

Are you a doctor?? The two most egregious things about insurance are lostnfound Dec 6 #41

Yes I was a clinician in the mental health field. Irish_Dem Dec 6 #44

My psychiatrist said she wished all of the bad ones Ilsa Dec 5 #26

Xolodno............. Upthevibe Dec 5 #3

They can be sent some scolds Prairie Gates Dec 5 #4

Lol!! XanaDUer2 Dec 5 #29

My question is, where were the regulators? malaise Dec 5 #11

The insurance lobby owns them dalton99a Dec 5 #12

Precisely malaise Dec 5 #13

And just like many regulated industries the industries write the freakin regulations and hand them to the regulators Cheezoholic Dec 5 #36

Corporations are the new monarchs malaise Dec 5 #38

+1 leftstreet Dec 5 #14

I work in the Property & Casualty Insurance Industry... Xolodno Dec 5 #39

My god, this has really exploded. Mike 03 Dec 5 #16

They're as intimately involved with UH's parasitic shenanigans as anyone. paleotn Dec 5 #22

If she has original Medicare with a supplement Demobrat Dec 5 #24

Have you come across the thread where someone said about the murdered CEO soldierant Dec 5 #28

We should all have the health coverage (free) that representatives, senators and "high" officials have. usonian Dec 5 #17

Delay it long enough take you into 2025 so you have to meet your deductible all over again LizBeth Dec 5 #19

LOL! I may not have a choice! Xolodno Dec 5 #32

Wow. I did not realize how despised UHC was ecstatic Dec 5 #20

I suspect that if this guy worked for BCBS or Demobrat Dec 5 #25

UHC does have the highest percentage of denied claims of all the big insurers, though Prairie Gates Dec 5 #27

Well be careful berksdem Dec 6 #45

Interesting that many doctors obviously Meowmee Dec 5 #21

now that he's gone PedroXimenez Dec 5 #23

Or get more security. Demobrat Dec 5 #30

So glad I was able to switch to original Medicare for 2025 Hassler Dec 5 #31

We went from a G plan to F. Emile Dec 5 #33

That's me. Missed F cutoff by 2 months Hassler Dec 5 #34

Reddit also deletes threads by pro-lifers that celebrate the murder or harming of Doctors who may hav perfomed abortion. Jacson6 Dec 5 #37

reddit is on fire over UHC story BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 6 #42

butbutbut people are on waiting lines in canada. usa is so stupid. pansypoo53219 Dec 6 #43