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stereotomy says

This is NYC, where legal gun ownership (let alone with a foot long silencer) is practically a capital offense for non-criminals. No way this wasn't supported by oligarchs or 3-letter agencies.

Seriously? As if there was a strict border around NYC and illegal gun trade was not a thing. LOL.

Any criminal can get anything for $$$. In NYC, the only guns allowed to legal gun owners must be sold or transferred within the confines of the five boroughs of NYC ONLY. It doesn't matter how many guns you legally own in other states - if you didn't buy it in NYC, it's not legal. The PRNY is as fanatical about "gun control" as DC. I.e., only criminals can own handguns. The PRNY is imposing a $1.50 on each box (25 shells) of shotgun shells sold, as well as requiring a NICS check for every ammunition purchase.

Hell, even if you reload, powder is $55 PER POUND now. Even if you have the licenses, you can't afford the ammunition.

stereotomy says

Hell, even if you reload, powder is $55 PER POUND now. Even if you have the licenses, you can't afford the ammunition.

Buy it from out of state.

Am I the only one here who thinks the NYC is just trying to look like they know who the hitman is or at least looks like vs they still have no clue and are just pushing AI generated images to the public?

If you are plotting an assasination gun laws is the last thing stopping you. Strict gun laws in one patch of USA don't matter if you don't care about being 100% legal with it. Which you obviously don't if... see above.

https://gingertaylor.substack.com/p/the-insurance-killer

For decades, I have used the soap box and ballot box to attempt redress of my grievances. Because of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act I cannot access the jury box to appeal for the my son’s vaccine injury. Our story is a very common one, but it has never occurred to us to use the ammo box as an option. It honestly breaks my heart that someone finally may have. Because, if the murder of Brian Thompson is the violent result of just another heartbreaking medical injustice, then someone in the public has given up on the first three boxes ever working. ...

It is also difficult for me to see the rising folk hero status of this shooter, whom X is now tagging with the moniker “The Claims Adjuster.” Once this person becomes praised for what they have done, the risk of more impatient and angry individuals, many with justifiable rage, taking up arms against corporate criminals increases. Americans have been nursed on such stories in their network crime drama entertainment for decades, So taking violent action it is not a far stretch for some who have come to the end of their rope. No sane person working in good faith within a healthy system should come to the end of their rope. But ours is not a healthy system.

This is not the America we want. What we want is for the soap box, the ballot box, and the jury box to work. America is based on the ideas that wrongs are not to be settled with violence and street justice. But the fact that all three branches of government have failed in their duties to hold corporations and individuals accountable for their crimes and failures may now have broken that trust in of the rule of law that makes our civil society civil.

Americans aren't angry at the shooter. The longer he goes without being caught the greater his status becomes as a folk hero. It is easy to predict that if he is not caught this year, that he is well on his way to becoming the D.B. Cooper of the 21st century.

The tragedy of that is that what this man did was not just murder, and it was not just an assassination, it was an act of terrorism against the insurance industry. The day the story went public, Blue Cross Blue Shield was forced to retract its policy of limiting the amount of time that they would pay for anesthesia for a patient going through surgery. The terror attack immediately hit an intended target. And we have learned over the last 30 years that terrorism does work. Many respond to the induced fear by capitulating to the terrorist, both foreign and domestic.

This past several years saw our own government turn terrorist against its own citizens during the “pandemic” by inducing fear of death into a population gaslighted into acting against its own interests: locking down, closing their children's schools, walking away from the support of their own churches, restricting their own breathing, and injecting themselves with a poorly understood and largely untested cocktail of ingredients not proven to even prevent infection or transmission by a death virus, as the government characterized it. Fear works.

If the shooting of Brian Thompson is retribution for a legitimate complaint that was never made right by this company, then this act of pulling the trigger in retribution will get its intended effect by making corporate abusers take stock in their choices. ...

In this present moment we are close to resetting our government. I have been decrying for many years the fact that my Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial “[i]n suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars,” has not been “preserved” but rather has been obliterated. Because of the unconstituional 1986 Act, I cannot sue the pharmaceutical company that made the vaccine that gave my son lifelong brain damage. I have pointed out repeatedly that the entity that I and all parents have to appeal to for compensation is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and that the the U.S. Department of Justice, in representing HHS and opposing families, ultimately protects the interests of the criminal and negligent pharmaceutical companies. The purpose of the DOJ is to protect victims from criminals, but it has been inverted to advance the criminals rather than the interests of their victims.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/nypd-finds-monopoly-money-backpack-unitedhealthcare-ceos-shooter/

Patrick says

Yeah - where do you get almost $10K to go hunting execs on a "lark."

This may have done us a favor and banned masks in public (eventually). They don't do anything anyway. Everyone I know that wore a mask still got covid. So did I no warning a mask. Head is on a swivel anytime I see someone looking 50 or under wearing a mask. Why? Your indoor air quality is likely 90% more trash than being outside without a mask.

The Healthcare Executive Assassin-steal his look.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/an-assassins-pistol-and-a-possible

Medicare and Medicaid fraud assumed monstrous proportions with the passage of the CARES Act of March 25, 2020. ...

Uncle Sam paid hospitals a fee for performing a Covid test, then another fee for admitting a Covid positive patient, and then the full daily Medicare (with a 20% add-on) hospitalization rate, regardless of the patient’s insurance status.

The MD and Minnesota State Senator, Dr. Scott Jensen, drew attention to this in an April 8 interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham:

Right now, Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission in hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000 dollars. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000 dollars, three times as much.

Dr. Jensen was addressing the concern that hospitals were thereby incentivized to code patients as COVID-19 admissions even if they were suffering from other illnesses or injuries. Of additional concern was the CDC’s guidance:

In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID-19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.”

This created the possibility that the death of any patient—including extremely frail people with multiple co-morbidities—who also happened to present flu-like or pneumonia symptoms, could be attributed to COVID-19, even without a positive test. ...

On November 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would pay an additional 20% add-on payment to hospitals that used new FDA-approved drugs for treating COVID-19. The first therapies that were eligible for this bonus were remdesivir and convalescent plasma (extracted from donated blood). The cost of these drugs was covered by the Medicare add-on payment. In other words, Medicare (a U.S. government funded institution) paid hospitals a 20% gratuity on the patient’s entire hospital bill (already “enhanced” 20%) for using these new drugs. ...

Maybe Thompson was going to document some details about the payments for mass murder that hospitals were getting from the government to increase fear and therefore increase death jab uptake.

Funny story, long ago I had a state healh insurance license and an Aetna-USHealthcare (that's how long ago) agent license. A few years ago, apparently the company I worked and got my license through got brought by another company that sold it to another company, that did some unethical things.

I got a letter in the mail like two years ago saying MY moral terpitude prevents me from renewing my USHC Agent license. Not that I've had any insurance license in forever. Keep in mind I've never had anything more than a parking or speeding ticket (and not in 2 decades), my credit score is well over 700, never been in any personal civil suit, never had any complaint filed against me to any regulator, etc.

Sure looks like Antifa to me.

BREAKING 🚨

The suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.

He is known as an anti-capitalist, a climate activist, and likely a pro-Palestinian advocate.

https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1866193110482768175

Batter up for the patsy? Out of the dugout. Guess what you did?

Sounds like an odd name. How come they didn't make him Iranian with a Russian handler? Another agitprop opportunity wasted?

socal2 says

Sure looks like Antifa to me.

BREAKING 🚨

The suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.

He is known as an anti-capitalist, a climate activist, and likely a pro-Palestinian advocate.

https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1866193110482768175

Post deleted.

Not buying it. That looks like 90% of dark skinned northeastern immigrant people in the US. Eyes and eyebrows are not the same. This is also assuming that the photos at other locations are of the actual shooter and not just someone that likes to mask up and go out.

As Ceffer said, seems like a patsy. Make the story go away until the trial. He'll probably be dead by then anyway. So no trial if I'm guessing. A hit will be put on the kid by other CEO's while he's in jail as a deterrent. Kill us and you're dead.

https://x.com/PepMangione

Well, they certainly launched him with the patsy dressings, including the manifesto bullshit. I wonder if he is a CGI legend and not even real. That would make him an Intel patsy dream machine. "Let's see if we can finally cut an entirely fake patsy out of whole cloth without even an actual puppet person. It's time has come. Our own AI generated patsy synth."

It seems that the hit was State sanctioned and now with the excess attention the patsy MUST be coined. Is he a white supremacist anti Zionist MAGA Iranian-Russian Palestinian agent? Never let a patsy go to waste without the agitprop angle.

There's always gotta be a manifesto, doesn't there?

And he still had the gun on him.

I ain't buying this.

But boy did the Blues try to hide the Trans-shooter's manifesto

When did they EVER leave a suspects social media up? Too bad he is not Blue Checked, dude is getting some traffic today.

I think if someone started a "Go Fund Me Page" for the accused, the authorities would completely freak the fuck out at the coin that would be contributed.

So, the new CEO of United Healthcare is doubling down.

Saying that their denials are in the best interests of everyone even if they are at twice the industry average.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/leaked-video-shows-unitedhealth-ceo-defending-practices-that-prevent-unnecessary-care/ar-AA1vxDtR

How about we just adopt Japan's healthcare finance system? They seem to do a good job of it.

The gun they showed on the news looks like a home build based on a P80 frame.

Misc says

denials are in the best interests of everyone

I am sure this fuckstick's motives are corrupted but I do think that unnecessary testing and subsequent unecessary interventions and prescriptions are a major US healthcare problem. Generally the less 'healthcare' the better.

Donald Light: “Epidemiologically, appropriately prescribed, prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death, tied with stroke at about 2,460 deaths each week in the United States. About 330,000 patients die each year from prescription drugs in the United States and Europe. They [the drugs] cause an epidemic of about 20 times more hospitalizations [6.6 million annually], as well as falls, road accidents, and [annually] about 80 million medically minor problems such as pains, discomforts, and dysfunctions that hobble productivity or the ability to care for others. Deaths and adverse effects from overmedication, errors, and self-medication would increase these figures.”

Yes, our medical system is both than twice as expensive per person as the next most expensive country on earth (Switzerland) and horrifically dangerous to patients, with medical errors in the top three causes of death all told.

Trying to navigate between the various doctors, hospitals, and insurers is itself a kind of torture of Byzantine complexity, something I think does not happen nearly as much anywhere else.

One problem is the relentless encouragement to "see your doctor" about absolutely everything all the time. Another problem is mass hypochondria, which I would bet accounts for well over half of all visits to a doctor or emergency room. So hypochondria is a major cash cow and no one has a motive to point it out and discourage it. Then there's legal liability for discouraging someone from seeing a doctor, even if statistically speaking, staying away from doctors is usually the best advice.

And then patients want the doctor to "do something", which usually means prescribing some unnecessary drug.

All non-emergency medical bills should be presented in advance of treatment, to let people shop around. Anything not on the bill agreed to in advance should be free. That one change would fix an awful lot of problems. But doctors and hospitals like to keep all the charges hidden until it's too late to shop. That is the core of their business model, and it must stop.

We know more about this CEO shooter guy in hours than we do months later about Trump's attempted assassin.

Kid breaks back on hike. Spine surgery, chronic pain. Turns to hallucinogenic woowoo bullshit healer, who "explains" that big pharma is of the Devil (not totally wrong), that we have to Liberate ourselves from Corporate Medicine. Gives kid a shitload of magic mushrooms and Nootropics and whatnot. This gels well with the Woke shit he learned in the Ivys. Kid goes full lunatic.

In a normal, traditional society, he'd have a few old fashions and his wife would give him a back massage.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/police-make-arrest-in-thompson-shooting

On Monday, Dec. 9, sources with NBC News confirmed the man -- who they identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione -- was being questioned in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The sources said customers at a McDonald’s in the area called police after spotting Mangione, who they deemed suspicious. Responding officers noticed he had a fake ID and took him in for questioning.

Once at the police station, officers discovered Mangione had a gun similar to the one used in Thompson's killing, as well as a silencer and a fake New Jersey ID with the name "Marc Rosario" on it, law enforcement officials told NBC News.

Sources had said the gunman in the shooting used a fake New Jersey ID with the same name "Marc Rosario" when he checked into a Manhattan hostel last month.

Mangione was arrested on unrelated firearm charges, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced during a Monday afternoon press conference. He has not been arrested or charged in connection to Thompson's death.

Mangione reportedly graduated in 2016 as valedictorian from Gilman School, an all-boys high school in Baltimore, Maryland.

The 26-year-old was born and raised in Maryland, apparently has ties to San Francisco, and a last known address in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Wouldn't anyone calm enough to do that shooting also be reasonable enough to dump the fake ID and the gun immediately?

Patrick says

All non-emergency medical bills should be presented in advance of treatment, to let people shop around. Anything not on the bill agreed to in advance should be free. That one change would fix an awful lot of problems. But doctors and hospitals like to keep all the charges hidden until it's too late to shop. That is the core of their business model, and it must stop.

And emergency bills should be set at a flat price from region to region.

"Why do you hate da Capitalism? Shop around during your stroke for the best bargain!"

Also, we need to reconsider our anti-polypoly strategy/policy outcome. I think medical care was better when there were dozens of small hospitals instead of a few big ones in each area

Finally, we need to accept the fact that 80% of lawsuits are B2B, not individuals trying to wring money out of poor State Farm. We also need some kind of "Fast Track" and Paperwork minimalization for long paying Home Insurance premium payers who have not made claims in over a decade getting the runaround when they finally DO file after a natural disaster.

Here's a really insane story about a property owner having his insurance company claim check refused by TD Bank, on grounds the insurance company might claw it back.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/bank-refuses-to-let-some-fl-homeowners-cash-hurricane-insurance-checks

(Original Version: I remembered it as Wells Fargo)

“I never thought I would sit across from you and say, wow, fantastic, God bless insurance companies, but it helps,” he said.

That is, until he went to TD Bank to try to cash the check, only to learn that the bank, which holds the mortgage on the property, wouldn’t endorse it.

“They informed me that they won't endorse the check because they have requirements,” he said.

Those requirements include notarized documentation detailing the need for the money and how it will be spent.

But despite providing documentation proving his damage, Razavi said the bank isn’t budging. Instead, he’s being asked to provide more paperwork, including a claim adjuster’s report which is backlogged by at least a month.

Razavi isn’t alone.

His neighbor also got an advance check from his insurance company worth $2500.

But TD Bank won’t endorse that check either.

"Cash the fucking check is a terrible regulation that would burden business!" - RINOs, probably.

Patrick says

Trying to navigate between the various doctors, hospitals, and insurers is itself a kind of torture of Byzantine complexity, something I think does not happen nearly as much anywhere else.

Well put.

As I get to be an old fart, it strikes me that shit was far more simple in the days of typewriters and triplicate forms. Computers have seemed to make it too easy for banks, insurers, medical providers, etc. to cause a lot of annoyance and delays.