• rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson

    Not quite correct sort of. This is OptumRx, which is owned by United Health Group, which also owns United Health Care, which Brian Thompson was nominally the CEO of. In other words, this is like the sibling of the company Brian Thompson ran.

    To be clear, Brian Thmpson wasn’t a billionaire, he was a mid-level at best millionaire worth only $41 million. He was just another star-bellied prole who thought he was in the aristocracy.

    Point being, the whole thing is stupid. The health care system, the people getting rich off it, Luigi’s reaction to it, our reactions to it, the media’s reporting on it, all of it.

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      What part about our reaction, or Luigi’s, is stupid? Is it maybe, just maybe, totally justifiable anger?

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      What are you trying to say? That you could do a better job then Luigi?

      Brian Thompson was accessible and his location was known. Probably why Luigi allegedly went after him.