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VIDEO: United Health CEO Decries "Aggressive" Media Coverage in Leaked Recording

open.substack.com VIDEO: United Health CEO Decries "Aggressive" Media Coverage in Leaked Recording

Message follows killing of UnitedHealthcare's previous CEO Brian Thompson

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“I’d like to give you a little bit of advice around the media…My strong advice and request to everybody is just don't engage with the media. If you're approached, I would recommend not responding and, if necessary, simply refer them to our own media organization.”

They're spiraling, they dont know how to do damage control and are afraid this will spawn copycats. It should. If you want to be a dragon, dont complain when knights show up to slay you.
- I have a feeling that this might be pushing any new shooters to start going after the rich. They end up being treated like hero's and their names stick around. After all most just wanted the recognition.
  
  Better CEOs than the school children it’s been thus far.
  
  One can only hope
- I’ve never in my entire life wanted something more than to see copycats going after the C-Suite of places that put profits over people, especially when they’re running a company that should not exist. Because then maybe… politicians will finally get some meaningful reforms. Because they sure as hell don’t care about dead kids. Thoughts and prayers!!!
- That’s actually how it’s supposed to work. You don’t talk and you refer question askers to PR, HR, and lawyers. I’ve always been instructed this for any organization I worked for.
  
  Work in a lot of places with bad PR huh?
- I don't remember the story well enough, but we may have to re-write the story of Sir Gawain and the Black Knight after this.
  
  Wait I thought it was Gawain and the Green Knight, or is Gawain just an unlucky bastard.
- British becomes naturalized as American .gif
Andrew Witty btw. That's the new United Health CEO. I expect good things to come from him very soon.

Edit: as mentioned below, he's CEO of the parent company, not the replacement CEO
- He's been the CEO of UnitedHealth Group for 3 years now. UnitedHealth Care is a subsidiary, their CEO was the one shot. Best I can tell they haven't announced a replacement yet.
  
  I know the org intimately. This this exactly correct. Most of their business is B2B. UHC is actually a fairly small slice of the pie. They have literally dozens of CEOs. The one killed is the CEO of the healthcare insurance entity.
- This is false
- Permanently Deleted
Waahhhh can't you let us profit off of ruining people's lives in peace!
Aww poor you
"can't we just destroy lives in peace!?"
Boo-hoo, there are average people's lives who get disturbed when they're plastered all over the media and you profit off of that at every chance. Same should happen to you.
Yeah just tell your employees to turn their back to people. Solid advice!
Waaaaaah! Why is everyone picking on us?
Andrew Witty would make a great target, we need another hero to rise up and do what is right.
- By the way, and if he gets to pick --if he gets to pick your coverages, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.
If I was this dude, I would have quietly resigned two days ago, and moved into my bunker.
- You dont rise to that dude's position without being a greedy asshole that risks everything to get as much money as possible.
  
  I don't know why anyone would want to become Chief Executable Officer.
Kind of a leopards face eaten reaction
womp womp
What a shootable face
It has that Boeing energy.

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