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Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of UH CEO

by vector_spaces on 12/6/24, 2:53 AM with 43 comments

  • by blackeyeblitzar on 12/6/24, 6:30 AM

    I don’t think this information should be hidden. I hope others create sites that make clear who the leaders are that may be causing harm to them, by just parsing their filings. There should be accountability. And while I am not a fan of laws being broken for that accountability, let’s also be honest: being denied claims in illegal, or at least deeply unethical ways, is an experience MOST American adults have been through. These insurance companies make profit by denying the service you think you’re paying for. Normally that’s called stealing but when a company does it under direction from their CEO, it’s somehow legal. But when it comes to life and death situations of patient health, it’s a lot worse than just stealing.
  • by ZeroGravitas on 12/6/24, 9:47 AM

    This has the same energy as that guy that put lemon juice on his face when robbing a bank because he thought it would prevent the cameras capturing his image.
  • by denuoweb on 12/6/24, 6:19 PM

    Mark Levy, CEO of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, deleted his LinkedIn

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-levy-b04a8921

  • by ungreased0675 on 12/6/24, 4:28 AM

    If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?
  • by 2lazy2pwdmgr on 12/6/24, 11:26 PM

    Maybe if they didn't kill people for profit, they wouldn't need to hide in the shadows like cowards.
  • by egorfine on 12/6/24, 11:14 AM

    Are they scared? Good.
  • by stuckkeys on 12/6/24, 6:45 AM

    Wayback machine going to see some heavy traffic.
  • by evoke4908 on 12/6/24, 6:48 PM

    Someone's about to learn about the Streisand effect
  • by jazz9k on 12/6/24, 2:31 PM

    Terrorism has these sorts of reactions.
  • by ChrisArchitect on 12/6/24, 3:14 PM

  • by ineedasername on 12/6/24, 4:33 PM

    AthenaHealth has a different type of rational self-interest, suddenly backing off an awful policy changes about anesthesia coverage. "Maybe we're pushing the overton window on acceptable levels of apathy a bit too fast?" is probably a common thought on the minds of corporate policy makers at the moment. Not, you know, goodness-of-the-heart or anything like that, just "pitchforks today mean political will for healthcare reform tomorrow, and we can't have that..."