That's why most people celebrate the death of this CEO, because they're well-adjusted. Roughly 25k Americans die each year for lack ability to afford health insurance. Normal people don't cry over one filthy rich guy accused of insider trading and known to have overseen implementation of AI to deny claims, while giving zero apparent fucks for the orders of magnitude more people who are actually decent.
You mean like the health insurers that deliberately denied coverage for AIDS patients and cancer patients, knowing that would hasten/cause their deaths?
To answer that question, first I would need to understand how a normal person would behave in the same circumstance.
The sum of requests for insurance money is far greater than the total amount an insurance company brings in. Denials will need to happen, and I do not have the ability to judge whether a denial was appropriate or inappropriate in a vacuum.
I happened to be in a population of folks, in the 1980s and 1990s, who had a high incidence of AIDS. They currently still have a high incidence of cancer, so I guess you could say that I have a "front-row seat" to the horror.
There were actually some leaked memos, that made it clear that the goal of many denials -especially irt AIDS, because nobody likes gays and addicts- was to hasten or cause the death of the patient (thus, decreasing the cost). If a hospital can't guarantee payment, they won't do the surgery/treatment, so the insurer definitely knows that their action will likely kill the patient. In fact, that's the goal.
I would consider that first-degree, premeditated, murder.
I understand that they are now turning the denials over to AI, so that actual humans don't have to live with the knowledge that they deliberately killed someone else.
But it isn't cool to just kill folks you don't like. The kid needs to be tried for first-degree murder. I do not condone his action, and I'm glad they got him. I just wish they were as circumspect, when it came to the murder of non-CEOs.
I was just commenting that it will be very difficult to find an impartial jury. There's definitely a downside to pissing off every single person in the US.
I should also mention that folks will be desperate to make him take a plea deal, because a public trial will definitely have scores of health insurance horror stories.
