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

375 points

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

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141 points

Good. They should be scared.

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404media always gives us the 411 on matters, dawg

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18 points

It gives us the unauthorized on matters?

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10 points

Better than a 500

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10 points

You mean the 411?

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Typo 🤪

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404 CEO Not Found

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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%

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The entire concept of an “insurance company” (particularly health insurance) is inherently predatory.

They made sense when the only insurance was the kind that paid out if you sent a ship to India and it sank on the journey.

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Most other countries have figured out how to prevent people from wanting to murder health insurance CEOs…

Then again there seems to be a few things that other countries have figured out, but American exceptionalism won’t consider trying.

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Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits. Otherwise the shareholders can sue.

Edit: apparently this is incorrect. It is what they’re hired to do though, so not a big difference.

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Yea dummy… that is the “reality” we want changed.
To you it’s immutable, to us it’s not.

The economy isn’t driven by the laws of the universe, it’s 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.

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Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits.

That depends on the corporate charter.

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While I think these are scum, people want to murder people over too little cheese on their burger.

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OK, but do do you think this particular case is similar to “too little cheese on a burger”?

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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 won’t be worst than today anyway…

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Fairly sure today’s version of “AI” could easily replace CEOs; nothing of value would be lost.

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Isn’t this the plot of Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Been years so maybe I’m forgetting… But I remember the main media/propaganda ending up being run by an AI…

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1 point

May be… it’s 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).

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3 points

Of course they won’t see it that way.

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176 points

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

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159 points

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

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

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31 points

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

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21 points

Targeted killings of evil people get me hard.

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2 points

Same same… I can’t be the only one with a bit of a crush on this masked hero. What we can see is sexy af, though I would never be able to describe him to a sketch artist.

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11 points

What’s the old expression?

If you’ve got nothing to hide/done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.

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That’s why I stroll down the street nude. Everyone else is a juicier target than me 😎 why you wearing clothes huh?! Kinda sus.

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The two could be combined. Any shooting of three or more executives would be a mass shooting of executives. By a mysterious masked man that no one can identify.

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19 points

What do you mean? They are just trying to put food on the table for their families.

/s in case that isn’t blatantly obvious

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I watched a documentary on oil execs a while ago (can’t remember the name, sorry :( ). Someone asked an exec why he wasn’t giving 50 of the 60 billion dollars he owned to charity or government programs and he literally said “but how am I going to feed my family” without a shred of irony.

You were being funny, but the billionaire class actually believes this.

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It’s because despite having oodles of money they never learned math. A family of 5 could eat 3 meals a day $100 per plate for 60 years for 32.85 million. They have just as little comprehension of their vast wealth as we do. Billionaires should not exist.

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Feed my family? What about feeding my coke habit?

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9 points

What the hell are they eating, inexplicably stable trans-uranium elements?

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2 points

How many lives does 1 yearly bonus check save?

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155 points

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.

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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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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.

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You’re correct.

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15 points

If they’re publicly traded, then leadership is public record. Someone could always publish the info for them in a more helpful way than This

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If they’re publicly traded, then leadership is public record

For now.

There’s a lot of CEOs and wannabe CEOs about to enter government.

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