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His last LinkedIn post was not well received:

We're not talking about a mild mannered surgeon here. This is a wealthy CEO of a legalized extortion racket that was directly responsible for the deaths of innocent people and bankruptcy and hardship for millions, many of them elderly and vulnerable. After he took over as CEO, UHC's denial rate jumped from 8.7% to 22.7%, double the industry average. He also wasn't averse to a bit of insider trading, selling off stock before making it public that the corporation was being investigated for antitrust violations.

He belongs in the same category as Dr Harold Shipman. The lack of outrage about his death is entirely to be expected.

I think some people less familiar with the American health system are having a hard time believing how evil these insurance companies are.





UHC is subject to a lawsuit alleging "the company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny coverage to some elderly patients who are on a Medicare Advantage plan, despite allegedly being aware that the algorithm has a 90 percent error rate."

The suit says that UnitedHealthcare banks "on the patients' impaired conditions, lack of knowledge, and lack of resources to appeal the erroneous AI-powered decisions."

It goes on: "The fraudulent scheme affords Defendants a clear financial windfall in the form of policy premiums without having to pay for promised care, while the elderly are prematurely kicked out of care facilities nationwide or forced to deplete family savings to continue receiving necessary medical care, all because an AI model 'disagrees' with their real live doctors' determinations."

The suit says that an AI model was used to compare a patient's diagnosis, age, living situation and physical function to similar patients to predict the person's needs, estimated length of stay and target discharge date from care facilities.

That model, however, allegedly provided "generic recommendations" that did not "adjust for a patient's individual circumstances and conflict with basic rules on what Medicare Advantage plans must cover," according to the suit.

Point of order: being "a husband and a father" does not absolve you of your sins. Genghis Khan was a husband and father.

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Your mask is slipping there Eamonn.

An individual CEO is not to blame for the rot that is corporate America. Man has family and heading up a poisonous corporation in a poisonous culture is no reason to be executed on the street.

Those memes, as relatable as they may be - are low brow.

"My" mask? I'm just reporting what people are saying. I never made a statement one way or another about whether I'm in favour of what happened. I just think it's interesting that income and wealth inequality has now surpassed what it was in France when the guillotines came out, and all sorts of extreme behaviour that would have been unthinkable before is becoming normal.

It just keeps on coming

Not sure what the background is but so far there's been little in the way of grief expressed on social media.











Apparently the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" were found written on the shell casings found at the scene.

You think Clinton was bad? I've got a few things to say about Nixon...

Oh and scoreboards that only display the totals are cheaper to build and simpler to operate, as well as being easier to understand.

In fact, help me out here, but didn't the old mechanical scoreboard on top of the Canal End terrace used to just display the totals while the electronic one in the Nally Stand did the standard format? Or am I mis-remembering?

Lads, has anybody not got the memo yet that the Dems and Repubs are equally as bad? I think we need to hear it more from the usual contributors, just to make sure nobody missed it.

Something I used to get nervous about was remembering which row to go back to after going up for communion, I'd be afraid of going back into the wrong seat and messing up some family's seating arrangements. With everybody up out of their seats to get theirs, you couldn't use other people as landmarks. I would pick maybe a station of the cross or a confession box to remember where my seat was. Then I just got into the habit of counting the number of rows. St Peter's chapel in Lurgan was handy because all the rows were numbered.

The collapse of the greens is to be expected. They knew they had limited time in government and wrung as much reform out of the system as they could while they had the chance. A lot of their reforms are like the smoking ban - unpopular at the time, accepted as normal later. They'll be back when people come to realise they were right all along.