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Moderators delete Reddit thread as doctors torch dead UnitedHealthcare CEO (www.thedailybeast.com)
submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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Summary

Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.

Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.

Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Its also hilarious that lemmy.world admins/mods did the same thing with early threads about this yesterday, nuking individual comments celebrating Thompson's death and 24 hr instance wide banning the users that made those comments, then within 2 hrs they undid the bans, and by today seem to have just given up trying.

https://lemmy.zip/post/27427367

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean it's pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday. It's not like the more outspoken people were in the minority in their feelings.

Even the most vile MAGAs have probably been screwed over by insurance companies, or at the very least had to spend valuable hours of their life fighting for something they should have already had.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday.

Nobody Saw Nothin' Day.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

I mean it’s pretty obvious most people are in favor of making yesterday a National Holiday.

Brought to you by my being awake when I don't want to be:

Remember, remember!
The fourth of December,
A U-H-C CEO shot;
I know of no reason
Why the U-H-C season
Should ever be forgot!
[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell yeah!

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m only seeing one upvote and one downvote lol

I think people are having a hard time deciding whether to celebrate your comment or not

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Bit of an ambiguous one, when I look back at it myself lol