Police released images showing the gunman wearing a hooded top opening fire before fleeing on a bicycle towards Central Park, with detectives offering a $10,000 reward for the man’s capture.
The UHC company is a major player in US private healthcare, providing workplace health insurance as well as administering huge health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid for older and low-income people funded by state budgets.
The New York Times reported that Brian Thompson, 50, was shot just before 7:00 am at the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan, with the CNBC broadcaster suggesting a silencer had been used. Police confirmed a shooting with officers swarming around the area near the hotel, a usually busy corner of Manhattan that would have been filled with commuters at the time of the shooting. Video footage showed officers performing CPR on Thompson before he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UHC, had revenues of $100.8 billion in the third quarter of the year.UnitedHealthcare’s Employer and Individual products are used by almost 30 million people in the United States according to an investor presentation. Thompson’s total compensation in 2023 was $10.2 million according to a regulatory filing.
#The company was due to hold an investor day in New York on Wednesday* at which Thompson was scheduled to deliver a keynote speech. The event was canceled, CNBC reported, and the company did not respond to an AFP request for comment.
The suspect was described as a white man wearing a hooded jacket, black face mask, black and white sneakers, and carrying a grey backpack.
Billionaires and executives need to learn to be afraid of the masses.
I’ve been saying for years now that it was surprising that we don’t have corporate assassinations. We are being milked for every drop and there is a death toll associated with their greed.
Not just a death and suffering toll, but a toll in the tens/hundreds of millions.
For-profit healthcare is a crime against humanity, regardless of whether any nation acknowledges that fact. Its entire purpose is to reward the exploitation of the sick, suffering, weak, and vulnerable by extracting their wealth and depriving them of care.
For the hell these executives put sick people through so they can make a buck, I’m surprised it hasn’t been happening on a regular basis. I understand gunning down CEOs in the street isn’t fine, but part of me finds it hard to feel it wasn’t deserved.
I mean, what else are people to do? They can’t vote them out, they can’t get health care without them, they are stuck in a system that bleeds them until they die. People want justice, and at some point will take it into their own hands. I see this as inevitable.
Violence should never be the first option.If caught, this dudes face better end up on flags and murals. He took out a mass murderer afaic
Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.
And, importantly, only took out their target and didn’t turn it into a mass shooting with a bunch of innocent bystanders. Just took out one bastard and disappeared.
It’s like the 1000th option at this point. We finally hit it.
The way that our justice system works they are forcing it to be our only option. You think anybody has a chance fighting a half a trillion dollar company in court?
I’m a very nonviolent person but whoever this shooter is gives me similar feelings to John Brown. Neither did anything wrong
His and his company have killed people with their actions though.
Yes, exactly.
could you give an example? i’m an out of the loop non-american, so I have no idea how famous the CEO was.
The company he is a CEO of is famous for denying a lot of legitimate claims from their customers. They do everything they can to avoid paying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
Nothing more evil in this world than a US healthcare executive.
Almost nothing. IMO DuPont executives take the crown.
Nestle enters the chat.
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Sadly for the CEO of UnitedHealthcare his death due to lead poisoning was deemed a pre-existing condition so they can’t pay out the claim
I’m borrowing a comment from someone else, but it’s so on point.
