Is All Fair in Love and War? Notes on the UnitedHealth CEO Slaying, by Ben Bartee

The bottom line, not the health of policy holders, drives medical insurance decision making, often “assisted” by AI. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
-H.L. Mencken

Upfront, let’s get the glaring caveat out of the way: none of what follows is in any way an endorsement of extrajudicial killings, both because publicly advocating explicit acts of violence is one of the rare exceptions to First Amendment speech protections and because, in a functional Hobbesian civilization, disputes such as the apparent one between UnitedHealth and the gunman are adjudicated in a court of law rather than in the streets like in Haiti or the Congo.

That said, I struggle to drum up sympathy for the slain CEO, and what follow are some of the many reasons why.

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Put simply, health insurance companies are economic leeches that contribute nothing of value to anyone except their shareholders and the executives like Brian Thompson, who was raking in tens of millions of dollars annually before his killing. They provide no service. They treat no patients. They improve no lives — quite the contrary, in fact.

Once this pure truth is crystallized and digested, no amount of industry propaganda — like we have below from United Health CEO Andrew Witty regarding their moral benevolence as they “guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe or unnecessary care” on behalf of their beloved clients — can obfuscate that reality.

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