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UnitedHealthcare names new boss after former CEO killed

www.bbc.com UnitedHealthcare names new boss after former CEO killed

The company's former chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed in December.

Summary

UnitedHealthcare has appointed Tim Noel as CEO, following the December 4 killing of former chief Brian Thompson in Manhattan.

Noel, a company veteran, takes charge as public anger grows over U.S. healthcare costs.

Thompson’s death sparked debates on the industry and led to a five-day manhunt.

Suspect Luigi Mangione, arrested in Pennsylvania, faces 11 state charges, including terrorism-related murder, and federal charges that could result in the death penalty.

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Reminder that CEOs are just the mouthpiece, it's senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.
For some reason, that information has been purged recently, but you can still see it on some third party websites
https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/meet-unitedhealth-groups-board-of-directors.html
- When I brought this up, plenty of people here attacked me for being a boot-licking CEO supporter, lmao
  I didn't even say the CEO was guilt-free, I just explained that there are a lot more people than just him who were responsible for the shitty decisions.
  
  the rich have class solidarity. they don't steal so much from eachother. only from us. you're absolutely right that CEOs and boards of directors deserve our full ire. the industry of growth kills us more and more quickly every single day, and they keep on doing it
  
  Lots of dummies with hard-ons for Luigi. Don’t care to think deeper. Just wanna worship their hero.
  
  Which is proven beautifully by the amount of downvotes your comment is getting^^
  
  Yup
- Andrew Witty was the CEO of Arthur Andersen. For the Gen Zers out there, Arthur Andersen was one of the big five accounting firms until they were found to be massively cooking the books for the energy company Enron. Enron is also largely responsible for California's fucked "deregulation" energy market. He is a crook and United Health knew that when they put him in to head the board.
- it’s senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.
  Most of the board members at these companies are CEOs of other, often related and even partnered companies. While the CEO at a given company isn't the only one to blame, CEOs in general covers the vast majority of the fuckers.
- This is true, but it's also true that CEOs willingly go along with things that they know are evil, because of the money they will get. Don't let them off the hook
  
  Yeah, by no means are they off the hook.
  But their entire job is signing up to be the fall guy as the face of the company. That's why golden parachutes are a thing and an incredibly unpopular CEO resigns in "disgrace" then is immediately hired by another corporation often in a drastically different field.
  Because, again, their only job is to be the face of the company for when something unpopular happens.
  Everyone in the C suite at a billion dollar corporation is evil, they're all at best complicent
  
  Complicit*
  
  But their entire job is signing up to be the fall guy as the face of the company. That’s why golden parachutes are a thing and an incredibly unpopular CEO resigns in “disgrace” then is immediately hired by another corporation often in a drastically different field. Because, again, their only job is to be the face of the company for when something unpopular happens.
  This is inaccurate. I have knowledge in this area if you're interested in accuracy and can explain why it looks like what you're describing, but if you're just interested in your rant, I don't want to get in your way. If you're interested let me know.

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