When one of the first things you mention about him is "$280B of revenue" as though that's a good thing in the context of health insurance, yeah, fuck you.

They forgot to mention that his wife and he separated in 2018, keeping it secret for years. It was revealed after his death.

Not that I think there's anything bad about being separated/divorced, but it'd be a lie to paint him as a family man.

I guess his criminal record for drunk driving also doesn't fit the narrative.

Oh! Oh! Do Hitler next! Talk about how he served his country in war, how he was a painter and a successful politician and then leave out the "other details" about him.

I love how "overseeing $280B of revenue" is supposed to be some indicator of the guy's goodness. "Wealth = virtue" indeed.

By the same logic, let me introduce you to the story of a young man rising from a failed Austrian artist to a national hero…

Anyone who comes from humble beginnings should understand the struggle of the common man, and have empathy.

If you come from humble beginnings and then work your way up into a position of tremendous power, and then think "I've made my fortune now, so fuck the poors" then that's EVEN WORSE, not better!

tl;dr: The beginnings justify the ends. If you're a teenager thinking about becoming a murderer or rapist later in life, consider learning the trombone.

Fuck him even more then. Since he comes from humble beginnings he should know what it's like not being rich, but he just decided to be a greedy asshole.

What do you expect from a CFO of mergers and acquisitions? They’re more inhuman than healthcare execs, if that’s possible, since their entire job is to buy companies and fire people, thus leaving them completely without insurance.

Decent men don’t leverage suffering for profit.

It's a bizarre thing to detail the man's entire life EXCEPT the part that was evil as if it somehow is irrelevant.

I didn't have any sympathy for him until I found out he played basketball and the trombone.

This changes everything.

Mussolini interned at a bakery one summer and attempted to learn the harmonica, you judgemental monsters...

Hitler loved animals.

Your point?

The worst people in the world are still people. Doesn't mean we have to excuse their evil.

When it's your job to profit off of human misery, don't be surprised when you find out what human misery feels like.

IMO, a “decent man” would have turned down working in a company that made health into a profit-making machine. He would have at least resigned when AI was pushed forward to deny even more medical claims, but instead gave his blessing. One can be evil and deadly without having to pull a trigger, look at the ton of politicians that do it daily and they get away with it because they look polished.

Ah yes, the American dream. Making billions by siphoning the blood-money from the dying you denies Healthcare to.

You could make a similar feel good post about basically any evil person in history. It's pretty easy when you ignore the evil things they do

Yes, "The American Dream" aka, fucking over your fellow common man for a buck.

Yeah, this rural kid from Iowa grew up to be an evil parasite on society. This isn't the flex you think it is.

Oh shit, he was elected Homecoming King?? Well that changes everything.

He represented everything right and good in America?

Death to America then.

So it takes 1 generation to become a class traitor.

It makes the things UHC did to low income customers even worse, in my opinion. He knew what they were going through and still hurt them.

Perhaps this is all true and he was a relatively decent guy, but we will never know that for sure. What we do know for certain is that he was one many horrible cunts responsible for the harm and despair of far too many innocent people just trying to live normal, healthy lives. The nation is getting fucking tired of this bullshit and as a result the only part of this rich assholes legacy that really matters anymore is the one where he is a shitty proxy for all our anger and frustrations.

Wasn't there a reddit post about this guy and how he was like a womanizer or something and he and his wife have been separated for years, basically saying this guy wasn't the pillar of humanity the media was making him out to be? If there was a post, was any of that true?

I read a comment the other day that's stuck with me, I can't remember the precise wording but it was something like:

"Every cent spent on this man's funeral was made on the back of someone else's"

No he was a psychopath like pretty much all CEOs

Trombone, you say?

Fuck, the American dream sounds disgusting.

He then became a fucking murderer for profit.

Oh man.... I really want downvote this but like your point is right but like oh God fucking damn do we really need a post pointing out that the CEO asshole had a hobby? No duh.

He also had a job sentencing poor sick people to death.
We all know plenty about him from the boot being pushed into our throats from people like him and his friends who are all friends and think we'll of each other but...

Man the level of disconnect from these people. Completely can't understand the language of the oppressed and why we don't see their grand vision we are not a part of.

And Bin Laden made 20 children with 5 wives that were all loved.

Seems like drawing this kind of attention to yourself when the masses are looking for the next person to bring to the guillotine is a weird choice.