From the Independent:
The gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a horror early morning shooting left behind a cryptic message at the scene, it has been revealed.
According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings found outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, where Thompson, 50, was gunned down Wednesday morning.
Police sources confirmed the chilling message to ABC News and the New York Post, adding that three live nine-millimeter rounds and three discharged nine-millimeter shell casings were recovered from the scene.
Several of the bullets were each inscribed with one of the three words, they added.
More than 200 million Americans are covered by private health insurance. But data from state and federal regulators shows that insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment. Many people, faced with fighting insurance companies, simply give up: One study found that Americans file formal appeals on only 0.1% of claims denied by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
Insurers have wide discretion in crafting what is covered by their policies, beyond some basic services mandated by federal and state law. They often deny claims for services that they deem not “medically necessary.”
When United refused to pay for McNaughton’s treatment for that reason, his family did something unusual. They fought back with a lawsuit, which uncovered a trove of materials, including internal emails and tape-recorded exchanges among company employees. Those records offer an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at how one of America’s leading health care insurers relentlessly fought to reduce spending on care, even as its profits rose to record levels.
As United reviewed McNaughton’s treatment, he and his family were often in the dark about what was happening or their rights. Meanwhile, United employees misrepresented critical findings and ignored warnings from doctors about the risks of altering McNaughton’s drug plan.
At one point, court records show, United inaccurately reported to Penn State and the family that McNaughton’s doctor had agreed to lower the doses of his medication. Another time, a doctor paid by United concluded that denying payments for McNaughton’s treatment could put his health at risk, but the company buried his report and did not consider its findings. The insurer did, however, consider a report submitted by a company doctor who rubber-stamped the recommendation of a United nurse to reject paying for the treatment.
United declined to answer specific questions about the case, even after McNaughton signed a release provided by the insurer to allow it to discuss details of his interactions with the company. United noted that it ultimately paid for all of McNaughton’s treatments. In a written response, United spokesperson Maria Gordon Shydlo wrote that the company’s guiding concern was McNaughton’s well-being.“Mr. McNaughton’s treatment involves medication dosages that far exceed FDA guidelines,” the statement said. “In cases like this, we review treatment plans based on current clinical guidelines to help ensure patient safety.”
But the records reviewed by ProPublica show that United had another, equally urgent goal in dealing with McNaughton. In emails, officials calculated what McNaughton was costing them to keep his crippling disease at bay and how much they would save if they forced him to undergo a cheaper treatment that had already failed him. As the family pressed the company to back down, first through Penn State and then through a lawsuit, the United officials handling the case bristled.
“This is just unbelievable,” Kavanaugh said of McNaughton’s family in one call to discuss his case. ”They’re just really pushing the envelope, and I’m surprised, like I don’t even know what to say.”
DOL sues UnitedHealth third-party administrator for improperly denying ED claims:
The American Hospital Association in June 2021 sent a letter to UnitedHealthcare’s CEO responding to the insurer’s decision to allow retroactive denial of coverage for emergency-level care in facilities. “Patients are not medical experts and should not be expected to self-diagnose during what they believe is a medical emergency,” the letter stated. “Threatening patients with a financial penalty for making the wrong decision could have a chilling effect on seeking emergency care.”
In addition, the AHA letter said, “this is exactly why federal law requires insurers to adhere to the prudent layperson standard, which prohibits insurers from putting up coverage roadblocks to emergency services, such as by determining retroactively whether a service will be covered based on the patient’s final diagnosis.”
And from last month:
The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today to block UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UnitedHealth)’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of rival home health and hospice services provider Amedisys Inc. (Amedisys). The complaint filed in the District of Maryland alleges that the transaction would eliminate competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys (Defendants). Since UnitedHealth’s prior acquisition of Amedisys’s home health and hospice rival LHC Group Inc. (LHC) in 2023, Defendants have been two of the largest home health and hospice providers in the United States. Eliminating the competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys would harm patients who receive home health and hospice services, insurers who contract for home health services, and nurses who provide home health and hospice services.
The nice thing about life’s bitterness is that it endows every little grain of sugar with a very rich flavor. I wish you would remember why you chose to be born in this world.
America is a country where the problems are so obvious, so ubiquitous, so directly shoved into your face, but above all else, so ugly and banal, that most people don’t want to see them. They’d rather hear Alex Jones explain how Bohemian Grove is a Germanic death cult where the elites practice human sacrifice, or how hurricanes are steered into red states, or how the British royal family wants to depopulate the world.
It’s traumatic dissociation, similar to how girls who are sexually abused get into all sorts of dark stuff like horror movies. But the billionaire class figured out how to weaponize the traumatic dissociation. Epstein’s best friend Donald Trump will get up there and pay lip service to the QAnon boomers, who think he’s going to expose a global pedo network.
Well, maybe this will help people snap back to reality.
Nothing ever happens, until something happens.
Fauci will be increasing his security.
NYPD will find something, provided that NYPD actually want to find something.
There will however, in the fullness of time, be more happenings.
Because, nothing ever happens.
> Fauci will be increasing his security.
He is currently at six bodyguards, according to this article:
https://www.thejournal.ie/dr-anthony-fauci-measles-6357542-Apr2024/
> He travelled to Ireland with six security personnel, but did manage to go out for a pint last night. “I’m having a wonderful time in Dublin,” Fauci enthused.
This was on a trip to Ireland back in April of this year where Dr. Evil was presented with several prestigious awards including an Honorary Fellowship from Irish universities. Imagine being directly responsible for tens of millions of deaths and being treated like a God by insufferable academics desperate for more research grant funds.
And then the man responsible for the creation of an immune system damaging SARS virus had the SHEER GALL to blame “anti-vaxxers” for the rise in measles cases:
> DR ANTHONY FAUCI has said that he is “very concerned” about the “normalisation of untruth”, including by anti-vaxxers online, and how it could lead to a further rise in measles cases as people are being discouraged from vaccinating their children.
It makes me sick to the pit of my stomach.
Consider this — big city police solve about 25% of murders. Murder is what they try hardest to solve. So this is the best they can do. Reality is nothing like TV shows where they have magical science and brilliant detectives, working their tails off night and day. They are lazy, stupid, overburdened and indifferent.
Getting revenge is what happens when people lose faith in the system. All but the most delusional have lost faith. If this becomes a trend, sociopaths running scams on people will be dropping dead. The cops won’t be able to stop it, and they probably won’t care either.
It’s not that they’re indifferent, well, not necessarily. It’s that the majority of murders are drug dealers killing other drug dealers, so who cares really except to maintain the principle that only the state is entitled to say who’s allowed to die. Did I mention that most of those drug dealers are.. not white?
I’m always confused at how fixed you are on this dichotomy between the problems being mundane and them being the results of Satanic cults. Do you really think the cosmic conditions, such as they are, are not directly linked with such subtle things as devils and the like? Why should it be one or the other? If there are true yogis, then wouldn’t the adversary likewise have his own contemplatives who affect things in a subtle way?
People are eager for exciting stories.
They yearn to have a clear distinction between good and evil. But above all, they want to make sure that the evil is elsewhere, that they themselves are untainted by it.
So we get the “satan worshipping pedophile” narrative. After all, it’s easy to look at yourself and say: “Well, I’m not a pedophile and I don’t worship satan.”
But now imagine if evil just consists of banal motives that we all have. Imagine if the bad guys are just greedy and materialistic.
Do you own Bitcoin? Well, you know it’s environmentally polluting and ultimately worthless. So in what sense, are you really different from Brian Thompson? He’s just better at doing what you’re also doing.
Evil is more like a kind of slime mold that is corrupting all of us. Some are more tainted than others, sure.
But this is a lot less psychologically satisfying than the “satan worshipping pedophile elites” idea. Because now there’s no clear out-group and no clear in-group. Rather, there are just excesses.
I see your point that pointing out the note in your brother’s eye can excuse the log in your own, but I still think that you’re missing my point which relates to the broader cosmic conditions which prevail at the current time. Are we all to be like the Buddha in the story where he allows a tigress to eat him? In an ideal sense, we would be. Are we all to forego the advantages of meat and bitcoin and porn? In an ideal world, we would.
What are the advantages of meat, bitcoin or porn? Literally the only positive thing in that list is that bitcoin allows me to buy MDMA.
Real psychopaths exist; interdimensional demons are real as well. But with regards to the latter, Radagast is correct that they affect all of us to varying degrees. There’s been more of that kind of thing going around in this world in recent years too.
> But with regards to the latter, Radagast is correct that they affect all of us to varying degrees.
Stop being a Radagast fanboi. He is saying that WE, as goyim LSWMs, are responsible for whatever befalls us.
In other words, he is blaming the victim.
His POV is just warmed over New Age “You Manifest Your Destiny” garbage.
Now why do you suppose he would do that?
The fact that you talk about wicked men as being psychopaths indicates that you’ve been brain-fucked by the modern psycho-pharma industry. These things are deeper than that
The assassin’s smiling face has been posted so he will be apprehended shortly and we’ll find out his full story for our entertainment.
Obviously he’s an intelligent person who thought out his hit carefully and has a lot of justification in his mind. His getaway vehicle was a bike parked in an alley which he rode into Central Park! Inscribing the bullets was a nice touch – never heard that one before.
The earliest photos of the shooter do not at all match later photos provided by the authorities. His clothing is different and the bridge of his nose is different. Even people who post comments at the Daily Mail are remarking on this. It seems that the police will “arrest” someone who looks “close enough” and say it was the shooter.
Pretty much everyone posting at the Daily Mail is saying that they can understand why a distraught family member would do this. There is very little of the typically seen “I can’t condone violence but” addendum, and I haven’t seen a single “condolences to the family” post out of the hundreds I’ve looked at.
The use of the word “Depose” sounds like sovereign citizen type language. Would not be surprised to see the perp is one of those.
Or is someone who killed the guy for an independent reason, and is making it look like an upset family member.
Yes. The inscribed bullets are misdirection and deception. Nothing more.
Kaiser is pretty good overall, but they are not a health insurance company so that figure is misleading. They are an HMO. They tell you upfront what they cover, and they simply don’t cover plenty of things. We switched away from them so that we could get experimental psych treatments for a family member. They only cover the run of the mill stuff, and that is that, so there is no point in filing a claim about coverage (well, maybe there are some legal loopholes to get extra things covered by Kaiser, but I’ve never heard of anyone trying and most people I know around here go to Kaiser).
The really bad thing about HMOs (like Kaiser) is that their doctors are typically forbidden to mention treatments that the HMO doesn’t cover, so patients don’t even learn about other options unless they go elsewhere or research it themselves. And then of course whatever they find won’t be covered by the HMO.
There’s no such thing as a good insurance company, for the same reason that there’s no such thing as a good casino. As institutions they’re trying to make a profit by design, so in aggregate they always take more from people than they give back. It’s a horrendous way to approach the concept of health. It’s stupid that people even get sick at all in this world, actually. I have a few things I’d want to say about radagast’s other “god loves us” post but it’s honestly discouraging at times.
Why shouldn’t they make profit? If you take a salary, don’t bother answering.
A for-real nonprofit organization can pay salaries. Some health insurance organizations are just groups of people who pool money for members’ needs. No shareholders or investors. That can work. However, parasites typically creep in, and their greed grows ever greater. Things have been so bad for so long that people have forgotten about real non-profits.
> There’s no such thing as a good insurance company, for the same reason that there’s no such thing as a good casino. As institutions they’re trying to make a profit by design, so in aggregate they always take more from people than they give back. It’s a horrendous way to approach the concept of health. It’s stupid that people even get sick at all in this world, actually. I have a few things I’d want to say about radagast’s other “god loves us” post but it’s honestly discouraging at times.
Word.
My nigga
(Or “nigette” as the case may be)
> But the billionaire class figured out how to weaponize the traumatic dissociation. Epstein’s best friend Donald Trump will get up there and pay lip service to the QAnon boomers, who think he’s going to expose a global pedo network.
Who are the “billionaire class?”
You mention Epstein’s relationship to Trump in order to disparage Trump.
Why do you never investigate Epstein’s Mossad connections with regard to blackmailing and steering American foreign policy?
I thought you were autistic? Is that topic off-limits for some reason?
Why would that be?
Update:
He/she used a very silent single shot integral suppression pistol that requires manual case ejection each shot. This is a highly regulated pistol sometimes used by vets to put down animals. Very silent so as to defeat the NYC gunshot sensors.
There were many other similar hoodie types that went here, there and everywhere running cover to confuse the NYPD and CCTV tracking. For example, bus-stop guy and hostel guy and Starbucks guy are different – some even perhaps women. After the hit, hoodies went running everywhere.
Very well planned by a very organized group with inside information, but he/she made mistakes in leaving DNA evidence (but this might be fake DNA evidence).
In my opinion, Antifa has stepped up their game a few steps on the escalation ladder. These are the C/suite trust-fund Antifa kids in my view, stepping up to a new level. Some with perhaps parents attending that same “investors” meeting.
Things will be quiet, for a while – then start up again.
This will be the new normal.
Fake and gay assassino. This dude did like Mike Lynch in Sicily and is probably already in Montenegro sipping on fine wines.
Watch the video of this “assassination” and pay close attention to the break lights on the SUV.