Physicians Offer Little Sympathy for Slain Insurance CEO
I’ve been seeing a lot of support for the killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO on social media but I didn’t expect to see this! I’m on Medscape.com, “it’s where the doctors go!”
Physicians Offer Little Sympathy for Slain Insurance CEO
Many physicians reacted with the opposite of sympathy to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this week, reflecting pent-up frustration and anger over what they described as the health insurer’s routine denials of care for sick or dying patients.
The shocking killing in New York City sparked a wave of antipathy from doctors and patients for the nation’s largest health insurer, which Thompson had led since 2021. UnitedHealthcare, a division of the conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, insures about 50 million Americans and reported more than $281 billion in revenue in 2023. Thompson received compensation of more than $10 million in 2023.
“I’m waiting for a prior authorization before I shed any tears,” wrote Reddit user KR1735, listed as an internal medicine doctor, on the subreddit r/medicine….. [article continues]
The article has gotten 1827 Likes since it came out Dec 6th (that’s a lot of likes on this gated site!)
Medscape tweaked the number of likes!
See the note I sent to Medscape today:
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I noticed that the number of “Likes” on your Medscape Medical News article “Physicians Offer Little Sympathy for Slain Insurance CEO” was altered. On 12-10-24 it had 1827 Likes, but today, on 12-14-24 it only had 73 likes.
I note that 1827 is a high, but not unreasonable number of likes for one of your articles. Why was this done?