Murder of Insurance CEO Reveals Deep FRUSTRATIONS with US Healthcare System
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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The recent public execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has elicited a very strong reaction from the American public.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to IHIP News. |
| 0:06.0 | Today I would like to discuss with you the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. |
| 0:16.4 | And first and foremost, what's so shocking about it, it's on video, it's clearly targeted, |
| 0:23.3 | it's some sort of execution that was intended, premeditated, et cetera. |
| 0:29.1 | When I saw it, I was like, oh my gosh, that's terrible. |
| 0:32.7 | What a horrible, horrible thing to happen. |
| 0:35.7 | I was already was some CEO of a health care company, |
| 0:39.1 | etc. And then, you know, obviously people start investigating who he is, what his job is. |
| 0:46.4 | And the online response to this death has been really, really surprising. |
| 0:57.4 | And so I kind of want to dig into that, how the American public can see somebody executed on video, |
| 1:02.6 | who's married, who has two children, |
| 1:04.8 | this very violent act and what the responses are. |
| 1:08.5 | But before we get to the responses of the death, we have to go backwards |
| 1:11.7 | and read from his LinkedIn profile. So United Healthcare is the largest private insurance provider. |
| 1:20.5 | And any CEO's job is to cut costs, maximize profits. And when you cut costs for health insurance, basically you're denying |
| 1:31.1 | people health care. So Brian Thompson posts on his, a year ago, on his LinkedIn. We work every |
| 1:39.8 | day to find ways to make slash hashtag health care more affordable, including reducing the cost of |
| 1:46.0 | saving prescription drugs. I'm proud of the work we're doing. Andrea responds, Brian Thompson, |
| 1:52.6 | this seems like a laudable mission, but United Health Group is failing my mother by not providing |
| 1:59.8 | her basic care to get better and back her life. |
| 2:03.3 | You continue to delay any decision making and authorizing, which is compromising her health |
| 2:10.5 | even more. And if she doesn't get back to her baseline, United Health Group is partially |
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