Mass-Murdering CEO Ended: American Enters Her Villain Era

The Ethics and Fallout of the Assassination of United Healthcare's CEO In this video, we delve into the controversial assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare. We explore the ethical implications, the motives behind the murder, the reaction from the public, and the potential suspects involved. The discussion includes an in-depth analysis of Thompson's controversial business practices which led to significantly higher claim denial rates compared to other major insurance companies, resulting in many deaths. We also look at how his policies affected everyday lives and the broader conversation about the morality and legality of vigilante justice in dire circumstances.

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Malcolm Collins: hello, Simone! Today we are going to be going over the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare. We are going to go over the ethical arguments tied to the murder, the fallout of the murder, how the murder happened, the potential suspects at play. Whoa. Hello. Because it is a mystery. Some evidence points to the wife.

I strongly disagree with this evidence and we'll get to why and how the murder was pulled off. Let's get into it. This is juicy. I mean, if we want to talk about, like, the insanity of the reaction to it, one of my favorite, like, most comical parts of the reaction to it has been the reward [00:01:00] Put out for any information that leads to this guy by the police department.

They put out a 10 k reward. Okay. ,

Speaker 5: Nice. Nice.

Malcolm Collins: Well, he murdered of United Healthcare,

Speaker 6: This is serious. We need to track this student down and give him his luckiest boy in America medal right away.

Speaker 7: I

Malcolm Collins: . And Simone, I will lay out the, the basic information, the moral dilemma here and how people are reacting to this first, because I think that people are playing this like this isn't a real moral dilemma.

It's like, just never react with joy to a murder, right? Like never celebrate a murder. And yet people celebrated the murder of bin Laden. This person almost certainly kills more people per year than bin Laden killed in his entire lifetime. , this is the, the best I have ever seen deontological ethics framed against consequentialist ethics.

Because,

like, deontological ethics, this person was [00:02:00] doing nothing wrong. They were doing their job and maximizing shareholder profit. Yes, everyone who died as a result of that. With a, someone who they had killed legally, the

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which muddies the waters a bit is this guy was not even acting with fiduciary responsibility in the best interest of his investors. '

cause he defrauded his investors.

We'll get to that in a second.

Malcolm Collins: person who assassinated them almost certainly lowered the number of random innocent Americans who will die over the next few years, even if just due to the trepidation of CEOs around making these kinds of decisions.

Simone Collins: Right. So you basically think he he's causing a chilling effect that will make other insurance company leaders nervous.

Malcolm Collins: And to be clear, I'll put a chart on screen here and you can see that they had over the number of claim denial rates of the average insurance company.

This increase happened under his reign. It increased to 32% [00:03:00] is. Kaiser Permanente the largest health insurance company Only denies seven percent

Over the past five years since this guy came into power their denial rates tripled

Simone Collins: tripled Oh

Malcolm Collins: this guy came in in 2021.

Simone Collins: Okay. again.

Malcolm Collins: When he came in in 2021, the company only denied post acute care by 10.

9%.

Oh, they were great when he started.

Yeah, it was 22. 7%. Now obviously went up from there, but this is just one category. Yeah

Ooh! This, it is, it is not true! At all an exaggeration to say this person's leadership and choices were killing, if you're talking about 57 million people under care, probably dozens of people a day.

Simone Collins: Honestly, it's hard for me to deny this considering those numbers. That is damning. Yeah, that's really bad

Speaker 32: [00:04:00] You wanna know why I don't have a coterie of supervillains?

Speaker 31: Why?

Speaker 32: My coterie is six feet f****n under!

Speaker 33: Batman doesn't kill

Speaker 32: people.

Speaker 31: Because he's a pussy!

Speaker 33: He's a dark creature of the night! He's a jackass! Who wrestles with murderers dressed like clowns and throws them in prison So they can break out of prison and then murder more people real me this how many people you think that man's indirectly murdered by?

Being too much of a candy ass not to kill these fools who clearly need to be smoked Once and for all you wrinkly sharp haired looking dimension fested f**k ,

Malcolm Collins: , but it's not just that here is an article. United healthcare uses AI model with a 90 percent error rate to deny care. Based on a calculation on the percentage of payment denials reversed through internal appeals processes or administrative law judge rulings. As described by an ongoing class action lawsuit brought by the estate of two deceased people. So two people who he killed, their families brought a lawsuit against him. Now, keep in mind he also received a 10 million salary and spent millions on lobbying. And if you're wondering about the types of claims that UnitedHealthcare [00:05:00] was denying under his leadership, here is a letter that a doctor had to send him.

Dear buttheads at insurance company. Hey,

Simone Collins: this is medical lingo to be clear. The butthead is a technical term. Sorry, carry on.

Malcolm Collins: I have to take time away from my patients to inform you that you are idiots. This whole experience makes me want to vomit, but of course I wouldn't dare throw up without the approval of the insurance company, which brings me to my point.

Already you have decided that a child receiving chemotherapy has no reason to be nauseated. And, and this is in response to their denying nausea medication to a child who is like going to die going through chemotherapy.

Simone Collins: Oh, wow. That's a bad look. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Huh.

Malcolm Collins: And it's, it's, it's It's not just that.

So I will, at the end of this, go over lots of individual [00:06:00] instances here, but I'll just go over one anecdote here, and this was somebody who just recently, just yesterday, they had talked to, for two hours, on the phone with seven to eight different people at UHC, trying to figure out why they denied it.

They're 80 year old mom's peripheral anagram. She has 60 percent blockage in her right leg. It has a lot of pain and now has to walk with a cane or a walker around my household, even short distances. Her cardiologist requested a prior authorization for it, but you H C denied it because quote, she hasn't tried 12 weeks of PT in quote.

What basically they're saying? Yeah. She'd probably die. It was in that