UnitedHealth's social media was flooded with scathing comments after the apparent assassination of its executive in New York City.
Wednesday morning in New York, politicians from his home state of Minnesota posted sympathetic messages on social media. But those responses of support were soon drowned out by a very different tone, as people shared horror stories of being denied covered by the health insurance company and made morbid jokes comparing the CEO’s death to the ways they’ve been mistreated by the U.S. health care system.
“Sorry. But my insurance and Medicaid don’t cover Thoughts and Prayers,” read one comment with hundreds of likes, echoing the sentiment that had turned into a meme. Others made dark jokes: “seems like that hole in his chest was a pre-existing condition. You gonna have to deny coverage.”at 8:00 a.m. ET, despite Thompson being killed around 6:45 a.m. The conference was eventually stopped a little after 9:00 a.m. And some tweets on X outright celebrated the death of the CEO, with videos promoting the killer’s fashion choices and
The reactions feel like a significant shift in the tone of the country, however imperfect a barometer social media comments might be. Normally, trolling and sadistic glee over a person’s death are relegated to the margins on extremist sites like 4chan or X ever since Elon Musk purchased the platform. But Wednesday’s wave of anger and frustration at the health care system could be seen openly across the internet.
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