Propaganda By The Deed & The Death of a Useless Eater with a Huge Appetite.

[K-Dog]

OF WHAT DO THE MASSES CONSIST? Wage slaves who toil endlessly. They make their way home after they are beaten down by a minimum wage job, often more than one job.  Exhausted they have little inclination to read and understand their condition.  Weary and solated from each other they sleep, devoting the little free time they have to their family.

Is there a way of grabbing these people's attention, of showing them how the system cheats them?



Propaganda by the deed.

Brian Thompson's net worth?  Lets start with that.

Thompson's net worth was estimated at approximately $42.9 million as of February 16, 2024

At my retail wage I will have to work full time for 982 years without any time off to earn that much money as gross income.

I am smart enough NOT to have a Medicare Advantage Plan.  Such plans should be illegal.  I have supplemental insurance.  A night and day difference.

Lets be clear, Brian Thompson killed people.  Brian was the head of a company that denies vital care to millions of Americans all to take a profit out of their medicare checks.  Brian was the worst kind of useless eater.  Satan as a nice guy.

You can't make millions of dollars from health care without killing somebody and Brian was fine with his killing.  His business model is all about denying care so UHC can keep somebody's medicare payments.  In no way does United Healthcare do any work which adds value to a medicare payment.  Extracting value from payments is what they are about.

This was more justice than murder.  Vigilante justice.  But I hope the shooter is found soon.  Propaganda by the deed more often than not generates more oppression than it does greater enlightenment.

One trick Medicare Advantage plans play on people is to give subscribers five or ten bucks a month.  A kickback from their monthly medicare payment.  Money which should go to pay a medical bill somewhere.  Medicare Advantage people are all poor and getting 'free money' makes them think their Advantage plans care for them.  I know someone who thinks their plan is great.  Ten bucks a month makes all the difference to him.  He thinks he has a great plan.  He is also homeless and thinks he has a good life.



Fuck the shooter and fuck Brian Thompson.  Fuck Medicare Advantage.  Medicare Advantage kills people and makes suits rich.  Companies who supply Medicare Advantage insurance spend millions a year on lobbyists to buy politicians to keep their evil bean feed going.

If the shooter did what hid did because a United Healthcare denial killed a family member I'll still say fuck him.  But if that is what happened, I'll also hope he is not caught.  But as Brian Thompson was worth millions no stone will be left un-turned.  The killer will be found.  Money is screaming in pain,  Brian was no faceless nobody like those shot dead every day in America and forgotten.  Brian was a hero of many a money pile.  These piles are now screaming for revenge.  In capitalism money collects in piles and money appoints guardians to keep the piles growing in a tautological form enforced by human action.

And Brian looks like he was such a nice guy.  The perfect guardian of a pile.  Satan with a smile.

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Brian was the head of a company that denies vital care to millions of Americans all to take a profit out of their medicare checks.

This was the plot of a very good film based on the John Grisham novel The Rainmaaker.  Grisham is an ex-lawyer who specialized in novels about the legal profession.

The fact is the entire insurance industry is PACKED with people like Brian Thompson.  It is the  JOB of every insurance adjuster to find any reasons they can to deny a claim.  The insurance company makes money noy by paying out claims, but by denying them.    An insurance adjuster's success is measured by how many claims he denies.  The more denials, the greater the profit margin for the insurance company.

Since in the medical industry having your claim denied can have the ultimate consequence of being denied care and then death like in The Rainmaker, the smaller denials which are extremely common in aggregate cause even more pain.  My one experience with this was with an auto insurance policy I had on the one new car I ever owned, a Chevy Astro Van.  When the transmission quit on me before the 5 year warrantee was up, I put in the claim on it, which was denied.  The reason for the denial was because I didn't have records of my engine oil changes, which I did myself.  They didn't accept my log book, because I didn't keep the receipts for the oil I bought.  The thing is, engine oil changes have nothing to do with a transmission failure. 

Anyhow, that mechanical problem came at a particularly bad time in my life right after my divorce when I was totally broke and the $1500 t fix the tranny was money I didn't have.  I was dependent on the van because I had 2 jobs and was in grad school and was driving daily between Manhattan and Stonybrook on LI and sleeping in the van between the jobs and school.  Fortunately my mom came to my rescue and I got the tranny fixed, but paying her back set me back months.  That was the last insurance policy I ever bought, except for required Liability insurance to register my various carz over the years.  Usually I would taker out a policy to register the car, then cancel it after.   I spent most of my 40 years as a licensed driver and car owner uninsured.  I only got caught once and got a $500 fine.  My insurance cost at the time was $50/mo, $600/year, so the fine was cheaper than a year's insurance.  Fortunately I was never in an accident where I got sued and needed liability coverage, in fact I never got in any accidents at all so I didn't have any damage bills of my own to pay either.  I didn't carry fire/theft either which isn't required.  Over the 40 years versus carrying a full coverage policy, I saved well over $100K.

I also got reamed by medical insurance thru my job.  I was fully covered with a $1500 Deductible when I first had issues with the circulation in my legs and needed the roto-rooter job on my femoral arteries.  Each leg cost $60K to get the arteries unclogged, $120K total. A few months later I started receiving bills from the hospital for around $11K.  I paid them $1500 (my deductible) and told them my insurance company was supposed to pay the rest.  However, since the insurance company did not pay it, when you go in for these things you are required to sign a paper that you will pay whatever insurance doesn't cover.  So my refusal to pay ruined my credit score, which I really didn't care much about because I buy nothing on credit.  However, it did cause me some minor difficulties renting apartments.  For somebody who wanted a mortgage or a car loan though, it would have been a killer.  So again, insurance profits are about how much they don't pay out, regardless what the policy promises.  They hire the best law firms whose job it is to write the fine print on the policy to leave as many ways as possible for them to weasel out of paying.  Even the most reputable big firms like Nationwide and John Hancock and Prudential do it.  Of course the discount companies like Geico and Liberty are even worse.

So, if you were to exact Vigilante Justice on insurance companies, between all the field adjusters and then office managers and the executives involved in denying claims, you would pretty much need to head to the corporate headquarters with an AR-15, Uzi or Kalishnikov and empty a dozen clips just to get a start on it.

What do you call a dozen insurance agents at the bottom of the ocean?  A good start.

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[K-Dog]

When they catch this guy.

[K-Dog]

Health Care is in the news.  That is good and now I hope the shooter gets away.  United Health care likely killed a family member but that is only a theory.  United Health Care denies one third of claims.  More than anyone other company.  But Brian Thompson was a POS for other reasons.

Brian Thompson: UnitedHealthcare CEO Was Facing Investigation and Was Allegedly Involved in Insider Trading When He Was Shot and Killed.

Last year, the DoJ launched an investigation into whether the UnitedHealthcare, under Thompson's leadership, was unfairly limiting competition and operating as a monopoly. In May, the City of Hollywood Firefighters' Pension Fund filed a lawsuit against Thompson and other UnitedHealth executives, alleging that the CEO hid information about a federal investigation before selling over 31 percent of his shares, earning $15.1 million.

The complaint mentioned that Thompson and other company leaders sold more than $117 million worth of UnitedHealth stock over a four-month period while they were aware of the federal antitrust probe. However, the development has not yet been made public.

In October, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the U.S., joined the lawsuit and filed an amended complaint seeking a jury trial against Thompson and other executives.

In February, The Wall Street Journal revealed that federal investigators had been interviewing individuals from the healthcare sector where UnitedHealth operates.

The inquiries focused on the relationships between UnitedHealthcare, the company's insurance division, and its Optum health services branch, which manages physician groups and other assets.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that the Department of Justice was investigating UnitedHealth's Medicare billing practices. The investigation aimed to determine whether physicians were exaggerating patient illnesses to improperly boost government payments.

Hit man or hero?  Right now we don't know.  Hero is going too far for me, but it sounds good.  Modern mythology has rhymes which seem to fit.

 

[K-Dog]

Note:  Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts anesthesia payment policy after backlash!

The health insurer planned to cap the length of time anesthesia can be covered during medical procedures in three states, prompting outrage.

Gail Koziara Boudreaux spent 20 years at Aetna, then in 2002 was named president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois. She became the executive vice president for External Operations at Health Care Service Corporation, which encompasses Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois.

In May 2008 she became executive vice president of UnitedHealthcare at UnitedHealth Group. From January 2011 to November 2014, she served as the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare,[12] the biggest US insurer, serving 45 million customers with revenue of $120 billion.[13]

In 2015, months after stepping down from her post of CEO for UnitedHealthcare, Gail founded and became CEO of GKB Global Health, LLC, a healthcare strategy and business advisory firm.

Will reversing the anesthesia policy impact Gail's health?  Could be.  Perhaps Gail could start screaming for:

While I am waiting for hell to freeze over.  Gail would have more piece of mind, but she would not be where she is if she cared about other people.  There are no come to Jesus moments on her resume.  In 2023, Boudreaux became the first female elected chair of The Business Council, an association of top CEOs.

Do not flatter yourself that Gail has a road to Damascus moment. Gail must necessarily not have one.  The force of things keeps her earning millions while people die.  Conquest begets conquest.  Victory gives thirst for more victory.  Money will not put people in charge of money who will not do what money demands.  If that means your death then you must die.  Before the power of money you are nothing.

People do bad shit until they are stopped.  If people doing bad shit are not stopped they just keep doing more bad shit.  Doing bad shit just gets easier to do over time for people doing bad shit if doing bad shit has no consequences.  In the iron of men introspection is as rare as gold.  Few people are alive enough to question their own actions.  In particular if their actions are 'getting them off'.  In the heat of a moment reason rides wind and memory gets defective.  So if the harsh reality of a contradiction is not put in the face of someone doing bad shit no change is possible.

To some the death of Brian Thomson would be a road to Damascus moment.  But not to a CEO.  Masters of the universe do not consider a higher authority than themselves.

Researching this post I found this.  Info on CEOs.  And interesting website which could be useful in the future.

https://emailtheboss.org/

[K-Dog]

Internet ERUPTS IN GLEE Over United Health CEO Kílling.

Mentioned in the video is that others have also posted Gail Koziara Boudreaux photo.

Gail gets her wealth from her work as a buisnesswoman and athlete who is president and Chief Executive Officer of Elevance Health.  Therefore, Gail has accumulated a decent fortune over the years.  Gail's net worth is $100 million.

[K-Dog]

When they catch this guy.

FYI  Marxist do not consider Policemen members of the working class.

This one considers their commitment to protect and serve before making an individual determination.  The Retired NYPD individual in the video is obviously an asshole.  He serves an upper class.

Concerning the image of the shooter.  I see a resemblance.

[K-Dog]

I am sure somebody can do a better job.  The mask should go on both pics.  Somebody with the right tools can do a really good job.

[K-Dog]

Mainstream media is screaming FIX the System.  They do not scream REPLACE the system.  Talking heads have good insurance.  Mass media is a tool of the elite.  Jordan Chariton and Status Coup says it true.

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FYI  Marxist do not consider Policemen members of the working class.

This one considers their commitment to protect and serve before making an individual determination.  The Retired NYPD individual in the video is obviously an asshole.  He serves an upper class.

I've always considered cops "the enemy".  I've never been helped by or had a positive interaction with a cop.  Every contact has been adversarial.  Mostly the 3 times I was stopped for a traffic violation.  The others were when smoking dope in the park or having an open beer.  Never actually got arrested just the threat of it was there.

I realize they probably keep the streets safer by arresting some violent offenders and bank robbers so that's helping me indirectly, but my direct interactions have always been negative.  I remember them from the days of student protests when we referred to them as Pigs, and today I see them as Gestapo, the enforcement division of the Fascist State.

I've had a couple of close family friends who were cops and OK people off duty though.  Never dealt with them when they were on the job.

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[K-Dog]

I have had good and bad experiences.  For the most part I agree with you.  The wrong people often have the job.

If you or I had been offed the case would already be closed pending new info.  Yet in New York many cops are getting overtime.  Not the average ones, suit wearing detectives.  The budget is thrown away and no expense will be spared.  Failure to do so will show the average person how much power they COULD have.  That will not be allowed.

In the meantime:

Run away, run away from the pain, yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away from the pain, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away

In a book ending a protagonist may escape.

On the screen, a man turned a corner. The Mechanical Hound rushed
forward into the viewer, suddenly. The helicopter light shot down a dozen
brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man.
A voice cried, "There's Montag ! The search is done!"
The innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand. He
stared at the Hound, not knowing what it was. He probably never knew. He
glanced up at the sky and the wailing sirens. The cameras rushed down. The
Hound leapt up into the air with a rhythm and a sense of timing that was
incredibly beautiful. Its needle shot out.
It was suspended for a moment in their gaze, as if to give the vast audience
time to appreciate everything, the raw look of the victim's face, the empty
street, the steel animal a bullet nosing the target.
"Montag, don't move!" said a voice from the sky.
The camera fell upon the victim, even as did the Hound. Both reached him
simultaneously. The victim was seized by Hound and camera in a great
spidering, clenching grip. He screamed. He screamed. He screamed!

"The search is over, Montag is dead; a crime against society has been avenged."

"They didn't show the man's face in focus. Did you notice?
Even your best friends couldn't tell if it was you. They scrambled it just
enough to let the imagination take over. Hell," he whispered. "Hell."
Montag said nothing but now, looking back, sat with his eyes fixed to the
blank screen, trembling.
Granger touched Montag's arm. "Welcome back from the dead." Montag
nodded.

If you resemble the dude in any way,  Feeling nervous is appropriate.  Leave the grey jacket with the hood in the closet.

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Every motherfucker who is screaming about the glee people are taking over 'the murder' will feel intense glee themselves when the perp is caught.  Four fingers point back at them. They pearl clutch now, but later they will take sadistic pleasure.  Don't be fooled.  Such people just don't want murder happening to them.  Who does?  But most people are quite safe.  Most people are not out to fuck other people over like Brian Thompson was.

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If you or I had been offed the case would already be closed pending new info.  Yet in New York many cops are getting overtime.  Not the average ones, suit wearing detectives.  The budget is thrown away and no expense will be spared.  Failure to do so will show the average person how much power they COULD have.  That will not be allowed.

Of course.  And if they can't nail down the guy who really did it, they'll round up all the usual suspects and gin up a case planting evidence and lock up somebody to demonstrate to anyone thinking of copying as a Vigilante Executioner they always get their man.

Who are the usual suspects in this case?  They'll drill down databases for everyone with a policy against all the denied claims and policyholders who died who had relatives who own guns who have criminal records and eventually they'll locate somebody who fits the right profile without an alibi they can make a case against.  Doesn't matter if he actually did it, he was probably guilty of something, right?

This is of course a very difficult case to really solve unless the VE made a major mistake or brags to somebody when he's drunk and celebrating.  There's no money trail to follow, the motive is just straight vengeance.  If there were no witnesses and he disposes of the weapon any evidence will be circumstantial.

The Insurers are killing people every day by denying claims and withholding care for people who can't pay the exorbitant cost of medical care.   Even on the rare occasions they get caught at it as happened fictionally in The Rainmaker, the company declares bankruptcy and the worst thing that ever happens is some mid level executive fall guy gets a couple of years in a federal penitentiary resort for white collar criminals playing tennis and shuffleboard.  None of it makes the newz cycle.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to pin this on somebody.  Meanwhile, it will also be interesting to see if this motivates any copycats.  If it got truly DANGEROUS to fuck people over by denying their insurance claims, maybe a few claims adjusters will think twice before they deny a claim.

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[K-Dog]

If you or I had been offed the case would already be closed pending new info.  Yet in New York many cops are getting overtime.  Not the average ones, suit wearing detectives.  The budget is thrown away and no expense will be spared.  Failure to do so will show the average person how much power they COULD have.  That will not be allowed.

Of course.  And if they can't nail down the guy who really did it, they'll round up all the usual suspects and gin up a case planting evidence and lock up somebody to demonstrate to anyone thinking of copying as a Vigilante Executioner they always get their man.

Who are the usual suspects in this case?  They'll drill down databases for everyone with a policy against all the denied claims and policyholders who died who had relatives who own guns who have criminal records and eventually they'll locate somebody who fits the right profile without an alibi they can make a case against.  Doesn't matter if he actually did it, he was probably guilty of something, right?

Like the ending from Fahrenheit 451 I posted.

To do the frame will take a while, though we both might be surprised how fast they do it.  Eventually they will find the real guy when they match DNA, but that requires a lead to a suspect to match, and the time for that can't be determined.  If they find him after the fix is in he vanishes without a trace.

In the meantime as long as our BAMBI is on the run health care is in the news so:

run

My original knee-jerk reaction was that Bambi be caught quick so as to not give Trump more license to fuckery than he already has.

I totally changed my mind.

[K-Dog]

The plot thickens.

[K-Dog]

President-elect Donald Trump met with the chief executives of U.S. drugmakers Pfizer and Eli Lilly as well as industry lobbying group PhRMA on Wednesday night.  Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to lead the United States' top health agency, was also present at the meeting.  A PhRMA spokesperson confirmed that its president and CEO, Stephen Ubl, was present at the dinner, but declined to share any other details. 

In a just society such a meeting would be public (transcribed).  National Security is not threatened if these bozos were talking about retired people getting affordable meds, and why would the American people not have a right to know.  Health care is not private property?

There should be nothing to hide.  Nothing private about what the health care bureaucracy does at all.