Insurance company CEO assassinated in New York

[AnnO'Neemus]

Scumbag CEOs everywhere are removing their faces from their websites, and attempting to delete all references of themselves from the internet. It's funny as fuck.
I believe the scumbags that were planning to only pay for a set amount of anaesthesia have reversed their decision, for fear of euthanasia.

Yeah, I saw a reference to that in one of the 'tweets' on bluesky via that link above. Mind boggling. How can they only approve for anaesthesia during part of a procedure?

How the fuck does only funding part of the anaesthesia for a procedure work?

Dr: Yes, patient, I'm sorry that you became conscious and aware of your surroundings and suffered excruciating pain in the middle of your open heart surgery/leg amputation, but the insurance company said that anaesthesia was only necessary/to be paid for for two hours and 37 minutes, but your surgery actually lasted three and a half hours. Sucks to be you. You should've chosen a different health insurance company.

 

[Smangus]

CEO Squid Games incoming!

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m thinking of buying some carpentry tools, a still and a wagon and selling my services in the US as a frontier surgeon/dentist/barber. This time next year, I’ll be a millionnaire.

 

[ouirdeaux]

How the fuck does only funding part of the anaesthesia for a procedure work?

The patient pays for the rest of it, presumably.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My insurance last year was $1,100 a month with a $9,500 deductible.

Bloody hell, I pay a lot of tax (rightly) but healthcare costs nothing at the point of use. I'm due to have surgery that'll cost £10-20k but will be nil cost. I'll get ferried home and have district nurses on call 24/7 too.

 

[Orang Utan]

Bloody hell, I pay a lot of tax (rightly) but healthcare costs nothing at the point of use. I'm due to have surgery that'll cost £10-20k but will be nil cost. I'll get ferried home and have district nurses on call 24/7 too.

My monthly tax and national insurance is less than Yuwipi Woman ‘s insurance. So we in fact pay low taxes compared to the US.
This is shocking to me and has destroyed the notion I had of the US as a tax haven of sorts compared to Western Europe.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My monthly tax and national insurance is less than Yuwipi Woman ‘s insurance. So we in fact pay low taxes compared to the US.
This is shocking to me and has destroyed the notion I had of the US as a tax haven of sorts compared to Western Europe.

Mine too - which is scary.

You need to claim asylum in Britain Yuwipi Woman

 

[littlebabyjesus]

My monthly tax and national insurance is less than Yuwipi Woman ‘s insurance. So we in fact pay low taxes compared to the US.
This is shocking to me and has destroyed the notion I had of the US as a tax haven of sorts compared to Western Europe.

Americans are ripped off, but there are rich Americans who benefit from the current system, expensive as it is, including pretty much every single doctor. If you're rich here, you pay for other people's health care as well as your own. In the US, not so much.

And taxes on the rich are low. Top rate of federal income tax is 37%, and that's for the very rich indeed. Level at which our 40% rate kicks in, US pays 22–24%. At least we have no income tax on the first £12k or so. In the US, the bottom rate is 10%, charged on every penny earned. So the US has lower rates of tax on the richest and higher rates of tax on the poorest than we have. This in a country where the federal minimum wage is about half what it is here.

There are state income taxes as well, but not in all states. Texas is one such state (with no tax), and combines that with no state minimum wage either. There's a correlation there - some states are significantly better than others. New York state has state income tax and a minimum wage that is double that of Texas.

Federal Income Tax Brackets for Tax Years 2025 and 2024

 

[cupid_stunt]

Bloody hell, I pay a lot of tax (rightly) but healthcare costs nothing at the point of use. I'm due to have surgery that'll cost £10-20k but will be nil cost. I'll get ferried home and have district nurses on call 24/7 too.

Good luck with your op, and here's to a speedy recovery.

 

[andysays]

I don't usually post videos on Urban (I don't usually bother to watch the videos that others post on Urban) but this is, IMO, an interesting summary of how the private health insurance in the US works to enrich the health insurance industry at the cost, financial and in terms of medical outcomes, of the US public.

It's about 12 minutes long, and it includes some historical background.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Good luck with your op, and here's to a speedy recovery.

Seconded, good luck farmerbarleymow.

 

[brogdale]

made me chortle...

 

[Maltin]

Americans are ripped off, but there are rich Americans who benefit from the current system, expensive as it is, including pretty much every single doctor. If you're rich here, you pay for other people's health care as well as your own. In the US, not so much.

And taxes on the rich are low. Top rate of federal income tax is 37%, and that's for the very rich indeed. Level at which our 40% rate kicks in, US pays 22–24%. At least we have no income tax on the first £12k or so. In the US, the bottom rate is 10%, charged on every penny earned. So the US has lower rates of tax on the richest and higher rates of tax on the poorest than we have. This in a country where the federal minimum wage is about half what it is here.

There are state income taxes as well, but not in all states. Texas is one such state (with no tax), and combines that with no state minimum wage either. There's a correlation there - some states are significantly better than others. New York state has state income tax and a minimum wage that is double that of Texas.

Federal Income Tax Brackets for Tax Years 2025 and 2024

In some places like New York City, in addition to federal and state income taxes, you also have to pay the city income tax.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I pay more than Yuwipi Woman each month cos I am lucky enough to be earning much more, but that money goes towards all sorts of things like schools, roads, social care, libraries, bombing brown people in distant lands and so on.

I can leave home right now and walk in to any hospital in the U.K. and have anything from a blister popped and bandaged to a full heart & lung transplant, and not once will money be mentioned.

The term ‘Medical Debt’ exists in only one developed country, just one. God Help The USA.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

“This new American remake of the Dickens classic, where the ghost of Christmas present simply shoots Scrooge and cycles away on a hire bike, is totally on message for 2024” is the best comment I’ve seen so far

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

“Insurers will have no choice but to deny all CEO’s cover from now on, it’s clearly a high risk occupation”

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

“Billionaires aren't safe in the ocean

They aren't safe on land

All we need to do now is get a bunch of pigeons into the left engine of a Gulfstream and make this a Trifecta”

 

[two sheds]

Some people have no sense of public responsibility

Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer

TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

www.nbcnews.com

internet 'sleuths'

 

[Ax^]

Pretty scandalous the health system in the US, when the British NHS exists and broadly works for a fraction of the cost.

and we have fuckwit in the the Tory and leading the reform party looking at the figures and licking their lips in anticipation of the profits

 

[keybored]

 

[agricola]

I don't usually post videos on Urban (I don't usually bother to watch the videos that others post on Urban) but this is, IMO, an interesting summary of how the private health insurance in the US works to enrich the health insurance industry at the cost, financial and in terms of medical outcomes, of the US public.

It's about 12 minutes long, and it includes some historical background.

It is a very low bar to get over, but I think RFK and the Trump-supporting podcast bros are more likely to do something about this than the alternative would have been. Trump is also FWIW one of the few successful Presidential candidate that I've heard publicly praise single-payer healthcare and the NHS in particular.

 

[Ax^]

rfk and trump are planning on removing health coverage for millions.. suppose it will sort it one way

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

“Bet none of you had gun violence being used for the greater good on your 2024 bingo cards”

I am loving the internet this morning

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

“Insurers will have no choice but to deny all CEO’s cover from now on, it’s clearly a high risk occupation”

Fuck yeah. I had a job as a pensions underwriter once, working for an American life assurance company that were trading in the Uk.
Single male hairdresser wants life assurance? HIV test.
And other arbitrary requirements based on stereotypes.
Hospitality? Liver function test.

 

[moochedit]

Trump is also FWIW one of the few successful Presidential candidate that I've heard publicly praise single-payer healthcare and the NHS in particular.

You have a link for that? Only thing i could find in a search was trump denying that he wanted access to nhs for us companies in uk trade talks (from his last term) and he didn't comment on the nhs itself in that story.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You have a link for that? Only thing i could find in a search was trump denying that he wanted access to nhs for us companies in uk trade talks (from his last term) and he didn't comment on the nhs itself in that story.

https://www.axios.com/2018/02/05/trump-universal-health-care-single-payer-united-kingdom

 

[Pickman's model]

I pay more than Yuwipi Woman each month cos I am lucky enough to be earning much more, but that money goes towards all sorts of things like schools, roads, social care, libraries, bombing brown people in distant lands and so on.

I can leave home right now and walk in to any hospital in the U.K. and have anything from a blister popped and bandaged to a full heart & lung transplant, and not once will money be mentioned.

The term ‘Medical Debt’ exists in only one developed country, just one. God Help The USA.

Yeh. You can. I can. But not everyone is so lucky. Paying an NHS debt

 

[Yossarian]

Trump is also FWIW one of the few successful Presidential candidate that I've heard publicly praise single-payer healthcare and the NHS in particular.

Trump in 2019:

• The radical far left continues to push a socialist takeover of our healthcare system and lie to the American people about the devastating impact it would have.
• Congressional Democrats want to eliminate private health insurance, taking away your healthcare plans and doctors.
• Congressional Democrats want to control every aspect of your health decisions, giving power to the federal government to decide who lives and who dies.
• Since his inauguration, President Trump and his Administration have rejected calls for government controlled healthcare and vowed to never allow socialized medicine in America

...

• Congressional Democrats’ radical government takeover of your healthcare would increase your wait times, ration quality care, and stifle innovation.
  
  • In the United Kingdom, hospital death rates have been reported to be far higher than in the United States.
  • In the United Kingdom, which has a single payer system, 50,000 procedures were cancelled when their National Health Service decided they were “non-urgent.”
  • Millions of patients have had to wait in long lines to be admitted for surgeries in the United Kingdom.

 

[agricola]

You have a link for that? Only thing i could find in a search was trump denying that he wanted access to nhs for us companies in uk trade talks (from his last term) and he didn't comment on the nhs itself in that story.

 

[Yossarian]

He changed his tune the year after that 2015 debate

After pointing his thumb at Hillary Clinton, he told the audience: “She wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster, somewhat similar to Canada.”

Canadians, he continued, “when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States, in many cases because their system is so slow, it’s catastrophic in certain ways”.

Trump's attack on 'catastrophic' Canadian healthcare system draws ire

Canadians fired back at Trump’s criticisms of their ‘slow’ universal healthcare system with figures on better life expectancy and global rankings than the US

www.theguardian.com