Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.

UHC, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource and more are removing or redirecting their about us pages.

  • @kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    264•4 months ago

    If you’re worried that your CEO will be murdered, that might be an indicator that you have some deep problems as a company. If you’re all worried, that may be an indicator that your entire industry is a problem.

    • @fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64•4 months ago

      It’s really not that hard to run an insurance company without making people want to murder you

      • @sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
        5•4 months ago

        Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits. Otherwise the shareholders can sue.

        Edit: apparently this is incorrect. It is what they’re hired to do though, so not a big difference.

        • @stembolts@programming.dev
          14•4 months ago

          Yea dummy… that is the “reality” we want changed.
          To you it’s immutable, to us it’s not.

          The economy isn’t driven by the laws of the universe, it’s people, we can change it any time and have chosen not to. So now CEOs are dying.

          Wanna change it now? No?
          Alright cool. Maybe this is the new normal then.
          People have a limit.

        • @futatorius@lemm.ee
          3•4 months ago

          Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits.

          That depends on the corporate charter.

      • Terrasque
        3•4 months ago

        While I think these are scum, people want to murder people over too little cheese on their burger.

        • @kreskin@lemmy.world
          30•4 months ago

          OK, but do do you think this particular case is similar to “too little cheese on a burger”?

          • Terrasque
            1•4 months ago

            No, and I never said that. But thinking that you can run a big business and nobody would be “kill you” mad at you is very optimistic. People can be incredibly irrational, and the more customers you have the higher the odds of a crazy. And you only need one crazy to get lucky.

            If I was a CEO of a big company, I’d want some security 24/7, even if I made Saint Gaben look horrible in comparison, because you never know when some certifiable in Bumfuckistan decides I’ve destroyed his peepee with mind rays or something, and decides the only logical thing is to kill me.

            However, with this guy everyone wants him dead, and I really hope some of the chucklefucks running such companies start thinking if that really is the legacy they want to leave behind.

    • Enoril
      10•4 months ago

      They will now create fake CEO profiles (with machine learning capability) available only on Zoom due to safety concerns.

      May be one day, they will also replace the CEO by an AI agent. That won’t be worst than today anyway…

  • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    160•4 months ago

    Oh boy sounds like they’re afraid of copycat killers.

    Why - are they doing something that should make them afraid?

        • @melisdrawing@lemmy.world
          2•4 months ago

          Same same… I can’t be the only one with a bit of a crush on this masked hero. What we can see is sexy af, though I would never be able to describe him to a sketch artist.

      • SchadrachEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        The two could be combined. Any shooting of three or more executives would be a mass shooting of executives. By a mysterious masked man that no one can identify.

    • @Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      20•4 months ago

      What do you mean? They are just trying to put food on the table for their families.

      /s in case that isn’t blatantly obvious

      • Radioactive ButtholeEnglish
        24•4 months ago

        I watched a documentary on oil execs a while ago (can’t remember the name, sorry :( ). Someone asked an exec why he wasn’t giving 50 of the 60 billion dollars he owned to charity or government programs and he literally said “but how am I going to feed my family” without a shred of irony.

        You were being funny, but the billionaire class actually believes this.

        • @Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
          14•4 months ago

          It’s because despite having oodles of money they never learned math. A family of 5 could eat 3 meals a day $100 per plate for 60 years for 32.85 million. They have just as little comprehension of their vast wealth as we do. Billionaires should not exist.

  • bean
    154•4 months ago

    They shouldn’t let this become common. Hiding who Runs the company just makes them even MORE faceless and disconnected from humanity. Maybe focus on not shafting literally the entire population for money and shit coverage.

      • @cogman@lemmy.world
        64•4 months ago

        It’s actually nuts. Visiting /r/conservative and while there are some boot lickers by and large they are in agreement that “fuck that guy”.

        It’s wild.

        • @fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          39•4 months ago

          I’m genuinely impressed. I might even risk the blow to my mental health to see for myself.

          Edit: yeah, holy shit, there’s a couple people going “jeez you guys are nasty. I didn’t like him either but still” and the rest are treating the shooter like a national hero.

            • @sexy_peach@feddit.org
              12•4 months ago

              Only on select moments. Don’t forget how many unions met with trump and praised him only to have their face eaten by the leopard

              • @kreskin@lemmy.world
                5•4 months ago

                Musk demanded the twitter devs print out their code for review to keep their jobs. So many trees died that day for nothing, and so much toner money was burned. Who is that effing stupid? People were moving multiple stacks of paper as tall as they were down the halls.

                • @futatorius@lemm.ee
                  2•4 months ago

                  He tried to force PayPal to use Windows servers in its data center, when everyone else was well along in adopting Linux. They kicked him out over that brainfart.

          • @kreskin@lemmy.world
            8•4 months ago

            Wow you really did it? went to check out the conservative threads? you poor bastard. You need some counseling and a nuclear accident level decontamination shower like in that silkwood movie.

            • lost_faith
              2•4 months ago

              I do the same, peruse r/republican. It gives me a perspective… of how completely out of touch with reality they really are. I read a headline, chuckle like Ralph Wiggum in the bus, and read about 5 posts before my brain starts to melt, rinse and repeat for a few mins then go to saner pastures

          • @jaybone@lemmy.world
            5•4 months ago

            Maybe it’s too difficult for them, either through stupidity or for the smarter ones a cognitive dissonance or hiss, to draw the lines between conservative legislative policy and the corporate cronyism hurting the average person. But when they see a very immediate and direct connection, they can support it. Also their guns are supposed to be there to take down tyrants. We don’t have kings anymore, but the is the next closest thing.

            • @ilega_dh@feddit.nl
              6•4 months ago

              This is it. The red party abuses the economic hardship they themselves create (and profit off) and blame it on blue/immigrants/gays/browns. They have no incentive to solve economic problems because it’s what keeps them in power.

              Edit: blue isn’t any better by the way, they just advertise themselves as the lesser evil. They actually need the greater evil or they’d be out of office in a heartbeat as well.

        • @M600@lemmy.world
          38•4 months ago

          This reminds me of the girl who had her face ripped off by a bear. When she was asked what the worst part of the experience was, she said that it was dealing with the health insurance companies.

          • Terrasque
            14•4 months ago

            I can imagine… “are you sure you really need that face? Have you tried masks? Have you been in talks with the bear about alternative solutions? In any case, our resident doctor have decided that this doesn’t constitute a health issue and we don’t cover cosmetic surgery”

          • @kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
            11•4 months ago

            “I’m sorry, we don’t currently have a code for ‘face intentionally ripped off by black bear’, so your claim was auto-denied.“

            “I’m sorry, since you can still breathe and eat, your appeal of our initial denial was rejected, as the facial reconstructive procedures are considered ‘cosmetic’ in this case.”

            “I’m sorry, your second level appeal of our denial was rejected because, in the year and a half it took to get this far, we changed the laws in our favor and are no longer required to cover the procedures and care required for your condition. It’s also nearly impossible to successfully sue us because we have infinitely more money than you and have congress in our pocket. Thank you for paying your ever-increasing premiums for absolutely minimal coverage.”

        • @hOrni@lemmy.world
          20•4 months ago

          So it seems that Cody Johnson had a point, when he said, that Kamala should try to unite Americans against the rich instead of going after the immigrants like Trump.

        • @Klear@lemmy.world
          2•4 months ago

          Eh, that sub always needed 2-5 business days to get their agenda after every major event. They’ll fall in line soon enough.

      • @kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        Maybe that’s what it will take.

        Apparently shooting school children repeatedly isn’t enough to move that needle.

    • @bstix@feddit.dk
      13•4 months ago

      Now that the CEOs have all been herded into their gated communities, it would be a good time to lock those gates from the outside.

    • @ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64•4 months ago

      Good thing someone who can plan their attack and track their target for days or weeks, someone with absolutely nothing to lose and a single-minded purpose, would absolutely give up on their plans if they can’t find a public picture of a company’s CEO on the first page they check.

  • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111•4 months ago

    Hiding your website link isn’t going to stop someone your lack of humanity has pushed to the point of actually shooting you.

    And removing the tiniest bit of visible accountability you give doesn’t seem like a particularly good idea either.

    • humble peat diggerEnglish
      24•4 months ago

      Remember what these people tell us - “you don’t need privacy if you have nothing to hide”