UHC, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource and more are removing or redirecting their about us pages.
I enjoy how this article basically enumerates every name removed from their sites.
If youâre worried that your CEO will be murdered, that might be an indicator that you have some deep problems as a company. If youâre all worried, that may be an indicator that your entire industry is a problem.
Itâs really not that hard to run an insurance company without making people want to murder you
Honestly⌠Iâm not sure that it is. The entire concept of an âinsurance companyâ (particularly health insurance) is inherently predatory.
For profit insurance companies are inherently predatory. But so are for profit hospitals and drug companies.
So yeah at this point, it might be impossible to run a non profit insurance company with the consolidation of hospital ownership by the few big hospitals and Catholic Church, and the vertical monopolies of the insurance, drug and pharmacies.
Remember, one of the provisions of the ACA was requiring insurance companies to ensure at least 90% of expenditure was directly towards covering care, meaning insurance companies are legally permitted an incredible up to 10% profit margin. For context most retailers have profit margins of 1-2%
Donât forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits. Otherwise the shareholders can sue.
Edit: apparently this is incorrect. It is what theyâre hired to do though, so not a big difference.
Yea dummy⌠that is the ârealityâ we want changed.
To you itâs immutable, to us itâs not.
The economy isnât driven by the laws of the universe, itâs people, we can change it any time and have chosen not to. So now CEOs are dying.
Wanna change it now? No?
Alright cool. Maybe this is the new normal then.
People have a limit.
While I think these are scum, people want to murder people over too little cheese on their burger.
OK, but do do you think this particular case is similar to âtoo little cheese on a burgerâ?
They will now create fake CEO profiles (with machine learning capability) available only on Zoom due to safety concerns.
May be one day, they will also replace the CEO by an AI agent. That wonât be worst than today anywayâŚ
Isnât this the plot of Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Been years so maybe Iâm forgetting⌠But I remember the main media/propaganda ending up being run by an AIâŚ
May be⌠itâs been a while for me too. I remember loving the ambiance and music of this game⌠Good idea when the weather is bad (if it will work under linux).
What do you call one dead CEO? a good start.
Oh boy sounds like theyâre afraid of copycat killers.
Why - are they doing something that should make them afraid?
I think mass shootings in the US are a little passe. This on the other handâŚ
Whatâs the old expression?
If youâve got nothing to hide/done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.
What do you mean? They are just trying to put food on the table for their families.
/s in case that isnât blatantly obvious
I watched a documentary on oil execs a while ago (canât remember the name, sorry :( ). Someone asked an exec why he wasnât giving 50 of the 60 billion dollars he owned to charity or government programs and he literally said âbut how am I going to feed my familyâ without a shred of irony.
You were being funny, but the billionaire class actually believes this.
They shouldnât 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.
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.
Not worth my time to check who it was (I think BCBS), but they were going to deny the totality of the anesthesia line item for a surgery if the allotted time (and therefore the expected amount of anesthesia used) exceeded the original estimate.
If theyâre publicly traded, then leadership is public record. Someone could always publish the info for them in a more helpful way than This
