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It's Friday, let's go with FiredUpFridays! Here are the three things I'm heated over: 1. March Madness has arrived! On the women's side, my Utes were taken down by a Gonzaga team that couldn't be stopped from the 3-point line. They went 54.5% from downtown. We went 26.5%. That's interesting because WE, the Utah Utes, are usually the team that can't be stopped from beyond the arc. This reminds me, we can't always be one-dimensional. When life, work, or daily challenges arise, are we well-equipped to deviate from the original "game plan" and pivot to something more productive for the moment? A respectful single flame for healthy and elite competition 🔥! 2. I'm officially a Utah Royals season-ticket holder. Welcome back to Utah, Royals! While we lost the home-opener to the Chicago Red Stars, we won in spirit and support. The game was sold out, and so were the fans to the team, players, game, and community. Ohhh, AND, we did pick up our first W at home (and for the season) in our second game against the North Carolina Courage. Blazing return to Royalty 🔥🔥! 3. This week I was able to attend a workshop that brought together many different nursing departments and leaders from across University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics system. It's amazing what happens when you sit in the same room with other peers who are passionate, inspired, intelligent, creative, and supportive! It reminds me, why do we have to wait for an event to take place for magic to spark and change to happen? Why aren't we spending regular, daily time getting in front of one another...REALLY hearing what others are doing and accomplishing...AUTHENTICALLY celebrating wins...TRULY exploring big and small ideas over coffee...RESPECTFULLY challenging each other's assumptions...INTENTIONALLY encouraging steps and plights? We don't have to schedule when we will be exceptional colleagues and friends. Instead, we can live exceptionally by consistently showing up more fully and presently for our peers in all that we do. Combusting with simplicity 🔥🔥🔥!
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Let's not underplay the role of Artificial Intelligence enabling humans a method for denying coverage without having to deal with the reality of despair their A.I. based decisions create. Let's also not underplay that actuarial based decisions, if just slightly readjusted, can turn large profit ratios into unacceptably and unsafe small profit ratios. Let's also not underplay that anyone wanting to replace Mr. Thompson, would lobby the board on the premise of creating higher profit margins and better investor returns if Mr. Thompson had attempted to make United Healthcare a kinder / fairer company. Finally, let's not underplay how the mainstream media has focused so much attention on Donald Trump, the deeply impactful practices of Healthcare United probably did not receive the necessary media scrutiny that might have led to a fairer balance between accepted and denied medical care requests.
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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The tragic loss of life in this case is deeply troubling, and the act of murder must be unequivocally condemned. Our thoughts are with the CEO’s family, friends, and colleagues during this devastating time. While we grieve the individual tragedy, it is also an opportunity to critically examine the broader system they represented—one that many argue has significant structural flaws prioritizing profits over patients. This horrific act of violence should not overshadow an honest conversation about the systemic challenges in U.S. healthcare, where corporate practices often lead to unaffordable care, restricted access, and a focus on profit margins over public well-being. This tragedy reminds us that systemic issues in healthcare demand urgent attention. However, real change requires collective action through dialogue, advocacy, and reform—not violence. It is only by working together that that we can create a system that prioritises patients over profits. As we condemn the violence and grieve this loss, we must also recommit to addressing the systemic flaws in healthcare with compassion, determination, and a focus on peaceful solutions. #unitedhealthcare #brianthompson #healthcare
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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This man is a very large subject of discussion of what is right and wrong with America. While I believe every legal American citizen with Healthcare has a say on this topic, I just don't believe that he should be ostrized as the Criminal Face for a greedy corporation. Keyword Corporation; Public, mind you. Their main organization goal was to turn a profit on premiums. I personally can agree with grieving family's being frustrated over denials and some examples I've seen have been outright despicable. Ex. Canceling because of pre-existing conditions, then reinstating because death is not a condition and life saving meds showing up on dead persons doorstep. This man's living achievements may-not be celebrated (by all) but it should better serve as a lasting reminder of why monopolies are bad. (we're not talking about you google, half your staff is AI) { I personally believe the next administration will be strongly focused on breaking up Healthcare monopolies now. } And why we need to do better as a country for the health and wellness of our citizens and better communicate and have compassionate conversations. Hopefully this also sends a strong message to wanna be scammers looking for a quick and easy pay day trying to commit insurance fraud. There are truly people out there who deserve better. "Do unto others as...you know the thing" - Joe Biden (not really but probably) 2016-Law and order 2020-wtf 2024-Health and Wellness 🤌
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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Multiple things can be true. 1. Gunning someone down in cold blood is wrong, evil and detestable. 2. Choosing to enrich yourself as part of an industry designed to kill and maim people by denying them life saving healthcare is wrong, evil and detestable. 3. Both 1 and 2 should have consequences. I could add number 4: It is wrong for industries to exist, thrive and enrich the privileged elite by extracting money from desperate people. It's time for America to take a hard look at the kleptocracy inherent in the insurance, mortgage and credit industries.
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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The post is very manipulative or narrow minded. As it was pointed in a comment here, this is of course murder. And my post doesn't intend to justify the crime but tries to add explanations to a complex situation. 1. It implies that the murder was committed for no reason at all, everything was just fine. 2. It is possible that the victim was guilty of inhumane company policies and this is why the crime happened. 3. It is possible that the victim didn't make the policies instead they were imposed on him. But then who made them and who should actually be punished for them ? 4. It is possible that the company policies were intented for the common good. But even if this is the case, the post mentions no such thing. I wonder, because they were not ? 5. The post may have been paid for, it is hard to believe that such an ignorant post ( to say the least ) can have such an agreement among real people.
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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So, was he good guy who didn't deserve to be murdered, or a bad guy who got his just desserts at the hands of the people's vigilante? The problem is that Corporate Culture, esp in the US, demands that CEOs are hired and rewarded for delivering shareholder value and not customer satisfaction or even creating a great company to work for and be a part of. Until that changes - in all industries - CEOs in shareholder-owned / publicly-owned companies will put profit before people because if they don't, they get fired and replaced by someone else who will - usually an ex-CFO who thinks money is the product, rather than the original service or brand promise envisioned by the founders. It's a major fail in modern culture, esp in the healthcare Industry (which should probably not be "an industry") but also a side-effect of the positive side of modern capitalism, which allows companies to exist or expand by being funded by people with money, who want to make more money. How can we keep both? - Keep shareholders away from corporate decision-making or even target-setting, and stop treating Money as The Final Product in any business that isn't literally minting coins.
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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We are living in a dismal time. The most powerful two nations in the world. One can’t find a younger, decent, and hopeful leader for its future; the other one people even don’t have the right to vote. The benefits of government (politicians) & capitals (monopolists) are highly tied up together to the Federal system. What disappoint more is, social elites & celebrities, no one steps out to speak loud on righteousness so far from people’s side. When a society increasingly conducts injustices, it needs more anti-heroes. West and east, in both our past histories, martyrs facilitate the collapse of an empire and promote the newborn of the next era.
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Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better.
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