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The discourse around the UnitedHealth CEO murder has been a fascinating watch. I don't wish death on anyone (well for the most part...there are always Hitler level exceptions) but its really highlighting a massive problem and the response to the murder should really point out how tenuous the US is for some disastrous events over the next few years.
 
L K said:
The discourse around the UnitedHealth CEO murder has been a fascinating watch. I don't wish death on anyone (well for the most part...there are always Hitler level exceptions) but its really highlighting a massive problem and the response to the murder should really point out how tenuous the US is for some disastrous events over the next few years.
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Yeah. I don't approve of celebrating the death of anyone outside of the most tyrannical, evil people - though, I can accept not mourning the death for many others - but it does feel like an event of this nature was inevitable, given the the way so many health insurance companies operate (and UnitedHealth was among the worst offenders). Hopefully, this will be enough of a shock to the system that sees things change for the better, but I suspect it will just another sad incident in what could easily end up being a litany of tragic moments.
 
It's wild, seems like a plot from a movie. CEO, making almost 8 figures annually, of an insurance company with one of the highest claim denial rates gets killed. Is anyone surprised? Systematic changes should take place without the need for murder to spur action.
 
Insurance companies are like a ponzi scheme. When I was a kid, our family house burnt down. The insurance company (Prudential) offered my Dad a 1//3 of the policy. Knowing he was on hard times, they said you can litigate against us but we can tie this up in courts for many years. Guess what, he took the money as he had to at the time and the insurance company won another screw job. In the case of this murder, not that I condone it but this guys company has screwed tens of thousands of people.
Doesn't rank as good capitalism.
 
Yeah the anesthesia one was right at the forefront of discussion in my circles over the last few weeks.

I was really close to starting work in the US a few years ago and it was the insurance company haggling that pulled me out of that decision. It's absurd how many legitimate claims get denied by an automatic rejection despite being absolutely within someone plan but that extra hurdle forces the physician and patient to work harder to get coverage. If the procedure is importantly enough that work gets done and the procedure eventually happens but there are a number of cases where people just give up and don't get their treatment because of the initial rejection.

The anesthesia coverage is particularly absurd and it's interesting how quickly that got reversed when the lack of compassion started rising over the shooting death.
 
My wife told me the police have arrested a guy at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania who had a gun and fake ID. A worker at the Mac's saw him enter and thought he looked like the photo on TV and called the cops. Should be an interesting story if he was a lone wolf and dispensing justice from his angle against a cruel insurance agency. Let's hope its him.
 
The liberal party continues to implode. JT needs to take a lesson from Biden and step out of the way to minimize the damage. He's beyond finished at this point.
 
I remember a few years ago being in the Bell Centre in Montreal and everyone’s phones went mad beeping and mine joined in and I hadn’t a clue what it was then it turned out to be some kind of public police alert about a potential kidnapping.

I never forgot the shrieking noise the phone made but hadn’t ever heard it again. Until now.

www.bbc.co.uk

Northern Ireland weather: Travel disruption and schools closed amid red warning during Storm Éowyn

Buses and trains are suspended on Friday morning and schools are closed during a red alert.
www.bbc.co.uk

Spent the last hour outside trying to tie down as much as I can, but genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen winds of that strength here (reported as 75mph at my location with the possibility of higher)

Schools are closed and even the shopping centres and council services are all shutting down. All public transport off too.
 
Arn said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Northern Ireland weather: Travel disruption and schools closed amid red warning during Storm Éowyn

Buses and trains are suspended on Friday morning and schools are closed during a red alert.
www.bbc.co.uk

Spent the last hour outside trying to tie down as much as I can, but genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen winds of that strength here (reported as 75mph at my location with the possibility of higher)

Schools are closed and even the shopping centres and council services are all shutting down. All public transport off too.
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Did you come out of this ok, Arn?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882544593889353771
Not the brightest idea
 
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herman said:
Did you come out of this ok, Arn?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882544593889353771
Not the brightest idea
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Yeah, personally not too bad around our way, thanks for asking. Lots of (very big, old) trees down locally and we had a power line come down near a petrol station but thankfully didn’t do any serious damage.

I genuinely don’t remember anything like it, I’ve never heard wind like it. The sound was something else. A real deep, booming noise that kind of swelled up and down. Hard to explain. The winds peaked where we are at around 80mph.

Some pretty serious damage around the country and around 1 million without electric across the island of Ireland. Only one death so far which suggests the red warning and alert system might have worked.

A few photos here:


And at the top of this article too

 
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It's ummm farking cold there too no?
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lol it’s freezing in there during the summer. Air temperature tonight is about -1 and we actually have a fresh, new weather warning for ice and snow tonight to follow on from the storm.

It’s only a “yellow” alert, which is basically take a bit of precaution in comparison to the red don’t do a thing warning
 
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lol it’s freezing in there during the summer. Air temperature tonight is about -1 and we actually have a fresh, new weather warning for ice and snow tonight to follow on from the storm.

It’s only a “yellow” alert, which is basically take a bit of precaution in comparison to the red don’t do a thing warning
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I’ve lived through 13 hurricanes, 2 major
My heart goes out to you all my Irish brothers in this very tough situation
 
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