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by Curry Pervert
Motive: if it's true that there were words inscribed on the shells left at the scene as being reported, that seems to indicate that this is exactly what everyone thought.
Deny, Delay, Depose - which people are seeing as a reference to the 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.
I think Godwin's Law is justifiable in the context of health insurance companies.
Earlier this year I read Rudolf Vrba's book I Escaped From Auschwitz. One of the more striking aspects was just how routine and everyday the things being done in the camps became. The nazis tasked with operating the camps and the transportation to get there ran like a machine, constantly striving for quicker, more efficient ways to carry out their final solution, their primary regard being completing the task at hand. (There were exceptions obviously) This ran right down to the administering of personal possessions of those murdered in the camps and penny pinching where possible.
^That sounds an awful lot like a health insurance company - striving to make bigger profits at the expense of people's lives to keep the board and shareholders happy.
Some things I have seen in regard to this - note, I have not checked the accuracy of these claims but some of them come from multiple places:
The CEO that was shot earned over $10 million per year.
United healthcare are the biggest health insurance company but also have the highest rate of claim denial. The average rate of denial is 16%. In 2019 united healthcare had a rate of 8% claim denial, pretty good considering, but in the intervening years this rose to 32%. Some say this is down to the use of AI in deciding claims.
The police have offered a reward of $10k for information leading to arrest of the perpetrator. United healthcare allegedly refused to chip in another $10k to double the reward. United healthcare make $10k profit every 3 seconds.
Dave N. wrote:Most of us are here because we’re trying to keep some spark of an idea from going out.
I would absolutely take a whole bunch of motherfuckers out if terminal medical circumstances lead me to financial ruin and threatened the well being of my surviving spouse. No fucking question. What would it accomplish?….it would make a bunch of terrible people dead.