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You know your business is valid and moral when you have to run internal affairs like the mob

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If it’s an ordinary, powerless person gunned down by police, media are all too gleeful to report anything negative about the victim

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Trying to maintain the "Just World" deception.

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100%

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No defense of United Healthfraud or their executives, but if I was a betting man, I'd put money on this coming back to his ex-wife. Living in separate mansions, recently divorced or in the process thereof...And yeah, I saw the statements about how some of the bullet casings allegedly had messages scratched into them.

I'm Lester Holt, and you're watching Dateline NBC.

Jokes aside, it's frankly and simply amazing how many resources the NYPD and likely the FBI are devoting to this and how the media is covering it compared to the tens of thousands of Americans who die every year waiting for United to deny their coverage.

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THANK YOU for your reporting on this!! Ive been noticing more and more examples of bias in even the most trusted news sources lately, and it's so great to know that I'll get the facts from you.

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It's kind of remarkable how little "thoughts and prayers" the internet has offered over the entire political spectrum. It truly is indicative of how much hostility there is to UHC and health insurance in general.

If the American public could recognize their own shared interests we might be able to effect real change, but that seems a bridge too far and something the kleptocrats manipulate quite effectively.

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That's because thoughts and prayers are out of network unfortunately.

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Just for the hell of it, I checked what Wikipedia had to say about the company or Thompson. I came away with wondering why some big shot there hadn't been murdered sooner. The list of accusations and trouble is really something else. And all from a company I'd never heard about until today.

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I had to give up my real twitter account because I wouldn’t delete an RT of you. Glad to follow here.

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Thank you, Ken for your reporting. The gag order is standard in the corporate world. We appreciate the truth leaking out anyway.

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These are pretty standard comms in the face of a company disaster. I've never advised on one where an exec died. If you tell the media your boss is a criminal scumbag that deserves to die, you'll always get fired. Big companies, especially, don't do something awful (or have something they think i is awful happen) and then become decent people with open communication. They all circle the wagons. I have seen where this doesn't happen because of organizational maturity, and some cunning reporter finds the nitwit who will talk. Not only is there literally nothing they can say that won't get them fired, they end up in hearings and lawsuits that spin-off of the event. Don't feel bad for the workers. We know we work for the devil, but for whatever reason, we do it anyway. We are culpable in their crimes, too. We are dead inside and comfort ourselves with booze and pictures of Hunter’s hawg.

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Thank you for reporting this. Executives and politicians seem to hold among themselves such high regard that they think they should be beyond criticism, or even any scrutiny at all. His death doesn't make any of this any better and should certainly not be a reason to avoid important reporting. (Also, UHC is despicably driving healthcare costs up and patient outcomes down, and it's not talked about enough.)

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Why am I not surprised? This is just icing on a cake of misery

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Ever hear that joke about a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

Punchline applies here as well.

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Social media companies like Reddit are busy having moderators delete any comments that reflect how people truly feel about this, while traditional media keeps pushing stories about how much of a tragedy this is.

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Never heard of UHC, really? You either don’t live in the US or don’t have grandparents. They have a near monopoly on Medicare part-B supplemental gap plans, of which I’m an unfortunate subscriber.

Their coverage in that environment “seems” to be reasonable. My parents had it. My mother-in-law has it and for the usual geriatric claims, coronary treatment, diabetes, COPD, etc things have gone smoothly.

I am guessing the issues being cited, happen more with the gen-pop and younger truly ill patients.

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"Near monopoly"? Maybe they have a lot of the market, but there is definitely competition. My wife and I are using Mutual of Omaha -- no complaints so far.

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PROTEST outside Mainstream Media. MSM W. Washington Post/NYTimes and TV outlets. They are telling you lies.

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Independence for journalism is a must.

I read the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz daily. When an IDF soldier is killed, a warm and smiling photo is presented, the family is interviewed, etc. But how does this jibe with the awful social media posts of IDF soldiers laughing and having fun as Gaza was destroyed? All the evidence we get from the scene indicates joyful assault. I look at the smiling picture of the deceased and wonder what was the guy doing when he was killed?

It is so difficult to get the full picture on any person or event because there is always a party/parties that are interested in getting a particular story out. Lazy journalism simply takes what is given, particularly if it is easily available, and that is that.

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