The New York Times has published the most inane op-ed after the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
The governor of New York should issue Luigi Mangione a full pardon. He did nothing wrong. What he did was an act of justice.
What a tone-deaf, passive-voice “mistakes were made, no one is to blame, least of all us” sack of shit. You will fight any attempt to change this system that is making you disgustingly rich. The wall isn’t long enough for the healthcare executives that need to be lined up.
Cool story NYT. It’s not like you’re part of the problem or anything.
Out of curiosity, how much does your CEO make?
archive of the original NYT article here for reference.
Yet we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats. No employees — be they the people who answer customer calls or nurses who visit patients in their homes — should have to fear for their and their loved ones’ safety.
The subtle implication that all the vitriol is directed at front line workers instead of the executive team is infuriating and calculated.
Health care is both intensely personal and very complicated, and the reasons behind coverage decisions are not well understood. We share some of the responsibility for that. Together with employers, governments and others who pay for care, we need to improve how we explain what insurance covers and how decisions are made.
A hollow apology, the problems with US healthcare is not a communication problem.
Those were the only two sentences that aren’t just empty platitudes in my opinion, at least within what I can read for free.
They dont even see the patients they bankrupt cripple and murder as paying for their own care
“I’m sorry you feel that way.”
I would argue that it is a communication problem. If the insurers actually told us what they don’t cover we would refuse to pay and that would drive down prices.
More communication and understanding is exactly what we need. I shouldn’t need a lawyer to understand what my insurance covers.
Let them hate us so long as they fear.
I thought they didn’t want to provide a megaphone to murderers.
That’s just for the poor.
Rich murderers get to publish op-eds defending other rich murderers.
No rules if you got money.
New York Times aiding and abetting mass murderers
I mean, they’re already aiding and abetting the fascist apartheid regime of Israel and act as stenographers for killer cops, so supporting the atrocities of the powerful is very much established as their comfort zone…
If they let Netanyahu write op-eds, why not give the small time mass murderers a chance too?
They’re already helping to abet a genocide. Why not mass murder?
This guy
earnsreceives your annual salary every fucking day of the year, and after taking hundreds of dollars from us every month to secure health care, he has the gall to tell 1/3 of us that we should just die rather than receive treatment.Fuck him with a pineapple.
Pineapples have enzymes that digest flesh. Make sure to score it a few times first.
Backwards
First one way, then the other.
Then sideways
Damn I hope United health care CEO Andrew Witty is fine and a second shooting doesn’t happen to him. It would be so sad. So sad.
(D)on’t (D)o (D)at
Look, man. I only have so many thoughts and prayers at a time. I gotta recharge from an outlay like … that other suit.
I will never trust any news source that uses the scowling face of Luigi to tell this story.
Still better journalism than the NYT coverage.
The myth: “CEO’s have it so rough, all that responsibility of having to make life or death decisions weighs on them”
The reality: “Not my fault”
I cordially invite the New York Times to send me a hard copy of their article such that I can wipe my ass with it.
What’s “op-ed”?
used to describe a piece of writing that expresses a personal opinion and is usually printed in a newspaper opposite the page on which the editorial is printed.
Opinion pieces from the paper’s editorial board, and outside contributors.
The origin of the term “op-ed” is derived from the piece originally having appeared on the “opposite side” of the newspaper from the editorial page.
