BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered

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• AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hooray for laws that make it your legal responsibility to maximise profits for shareholders! Those are doing such amazing things for the overall public good!

  /s just in case

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• nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Punchline That Isn’t Funny

  BlackRock will probably win this lawsuit. Or settle for millions. Either way, they’ll extract value from a system designed to extract life from patients.

  They’re not just suing UnitedHealth — they’re suing the very idea that health insurance should provide health insurance. They’re fighting for their constitutional right to profit when people die and lose money when people live.

  Welcome to American healthcare, where caring too much is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

  Dear Sweet Mother of God, this article does not hold back on the biting truth.

  It’s a worthwhile read with only one small mistake contained within:

  Luigi Mangione didn’t just kill a CEO

  There is no reliable evidence to suggest Mr. Mangione killed anyone. And I, for one, remain convinced he did not do that deed.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It actually doesn’t hold back on the biting lie, their source says pretty much the opposite and the lawsuit is about earnings forecasts and stock price manipulation.

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  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s worth noting that those os a blog post, and not reporting from an accountable journalistic agency.

    I don’t see anything obviously incorrect, but it’s worth noting the source.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no reliable evidence to suggest Mr. Mangione killed anyone.

    I’m so sick of everyone making me repeat myself with this:

    Luigi was.

    With me.

    The morning.

    Of the murder.

    He physically could not have committed the crime from another location. We were setting up for our friend’s dad’s birthday party and he was busy getting the balloons ready.

    Not guilty.

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    • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can confirm, I was there too. It was an early one and we had to get him up, I remember; that guy could sleep through like fifteen alarms.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like Brian Thompson, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, is one of the people that Luigi Mangione didn’t kill.

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    • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for this link. Goodness, this guy is a horrible human being.

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  • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure a piano fell on that guy.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hope Mangione is found innocent and he suits the shit out off all the media companies that declared guilty without any proof.

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sues* of*

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    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m fully convinced that if it ever starts looking like he might legitimately walk, he’ll be Epstein’d. They want to keep that option for last resorts only because they understand the optics behind it, but I’m sure it’s not completely off the table.

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• Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like they’re admitting the CEO murder brought about a good change. We should do it more often 🙂

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically this article cites CBS News who says the lawsuit is about stock price manipulations and earnings forecasts as well as UnitedHealth being directly responsible for higher denial rates.

    So, no, the lawsuit doesn’t admit the CEO murder brought about a good change. Quite the opposite, actually.

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  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So BR CEO next?

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  • iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like we have a great candidate

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• nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We saw what was a perfect three-word alliteration as found on certain shell casings for a healthcare CEO, but what comparable three-word alliteration would be suitable for an asset manager? I don’t know…

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  • sidelove@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Too much care” is great if you’re fine with passing up on the alliteration

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am also wondering that, you know, to make up something when the people who Extract all the value from society, Extinguish all alternatives to their monopolies are Eliminated.

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    • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was so very well said! Yes, yes!

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