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UHC, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource and more are removing or redirecting their about us pages.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 366 points 1 week ago

I enjoy how this article basically enumerates every name removed from their sites.

[-] poo@lemmy.world 138 points 1 week ago

Good. They should be scared.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 266 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you're worried that your CEO will be murdered, that might be an indicator that you have some deep problems as a company. If you're all worried, that may be an indicator that your entire industry is a problem.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago

It's really not that hard to run an insurance company without making people want to murder you

[-] prole 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly... I'm not sure that it is. The entire concept of an "insurance company" (particularly health insurance) is inherently predatory.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 175 points 1 week ago

What do you call one dead CEO? a good start.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 157 points 1 week ago

Oh boy sounds like they're afraid of copycat killers.

Why - are they doing something that should make them afraid?

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago

I think mass shootings in the US are a little passe. This on the other hand...

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Targeted killings of evil people get me hard.

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[-] b3an@lemmy.world 152 points 1 week ago

They shouldn’t let this become common. Hiding who Runs the company just makes them even MORE faceless and disconnected from humanity. Maybe focus on not shafting literally the entire population for money and shit coverage.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 29 points 1 week ago

I would expect only the wrong lessons will be learnt. But I already saw a headline about another insurance company reverting some stupid policy, so maybe correct ones will be learnt, too.

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[-] Catoblepas 133 points 1 week ago

Yeah, if I lived off blood money in a country with insanely high gun ownership, I would also start acting like it.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago

One more dead CEO and the conseevatives will start worrying about gun control.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

It's actually nuts. Visiting /r/conservative and while there are some boot lickers by and large they are in agreement that "fuck that guy".

It's wild.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm genuinely impressed. I might even risk the blow to my mental health to see for myself.

Edit: yeah, holy shit, there's a couple people going "jeez you guys are nasty. I didn't like him either but still" and the rest are treating the shooter like a national hero.

[-] Brodysseus@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

Class struggles are something we can all get behind

[-] Josey_Wales@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Class is the root struggle. All other divisions distract those not at the top.

E:typo

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[-] M600@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

This reminds me of the girl who had her face ripped off by a bear. When she was asked what the worst part of the experience was, she said that it was dealing with the health insurance companies.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago

archive.org and linked in.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

archive.today too; name and shame.

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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago

Let's hope they live in fear. Let's hope they are never comfortable, even in their mansions and yachts.

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hiding your website link isn't going to stop someone your lack of humanity has pushed to the point of actually shooting you.

And removing the tiniest bit of visible accountability you give doesn't seem like a particularly good idea either.

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[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago

Good thing there isn't some kind of machine that lets you go way back in time to see the pages before they were removed

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

Good thing someone who can plan their attack and track their target for days or weeks, someone with absolutely nothing to lose and a single-minded purpose, would absolutely give up on their plans if they can't find a public picture of a company's CEO on the first page they check.

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[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 96 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They forgot two names: Ms. Wayback Machine and Mr. Archive Today.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 49 points 1 week ago

Publicly traded companies would have all this listed in official filings, anyway.

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[-] bokherif@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago

Smells like guilt to me

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago
[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Quick! To LinkedIn!

theres a sentence I'd never expected to ever read.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago
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[-] Absaroka@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago

Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the "Our Team" pages from your website.

Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

Novel idea, I know.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

Deny, Defend, Depose

[-] NastyNative@mander.xyz 47 points 1 week ago

Cause they know what they are doing is wrong!

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[-] takeda@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

I initially was thinking that people were just aggressive about him, because of the insurance companies and not necessarily what he did, especially since he was CEO for 3 years, but looks like UH had rejections in single digit and after he took over they jumped to over 20%

I understand the outrage though. While some rejections could be people asking for things that are not necessary, for example Ozempic if one doesn't have diabetes, many of those affect quality of life for millions of people and even affect of they can live or die.

It is absolutely horrible and unethical to make money on misfortune of others.

[-] EldritchFeminity 22 points 1 week ago

Somebody in another thread yesterday pointed out how those stats are also after appeals are accounted for. So it's not all the stuff they denied, but the stuff that they denied again after doctors and patients went through the appeal process. They had worked in appeals at another health insurance company, and said that the only way you could see denial rates that high were if UHC were denying almost everything that wasn't a standard checkup like an annual physical.

[-] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 21 points 1 week ago

He was also CEO when they setup an AI that had a 90% error rate that was denying claims.

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[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

"there gooees my hero! Watch him as he goes!"

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago
[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

I don't get the fuss about it. Guy went voting ... he had no paper vote against what fucked him, his loved ones, and millions of fellow Americans over, so he used a high velocity lead vote. Still, just democracy at work.

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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

All the more reason that internet archives are important.

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[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

Guaranteed they were not talking about ending their war on humanity

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Or maybe they should consider being decent human beings who do not profit from death and misery.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago

Anything but ease up on predatory rates while denying the doctor-prescribed care we pay for, huh?

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago

Oh no they can't take the anger of their customers

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