UHC, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource and more are removing or redirecting their about us pages.

  • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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    Good thing there isn’t some kind of machine that lets you go way back in time to see the pages before they were removed

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      Good thing someone who can plan their attack and track their target for days or weeks, someone with absolutely nothing to lose and a single-minded purpose, would absolutely give up on their plans if they can’t find a public picture of a company’s CEO on the first page they check.

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    Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the “Our Team” pages from your website.

    Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

    Novel idea, I know.

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        We killed one CEO, which resulted in one change to their company.

        They stopped automatically denying people anesthetic for surgeries because a CEO was shot.

        It works, it was just proven that indiscriminate attacks against the wealthy result in them making concessions.

        Now we just need to kill one CEO for every small improvement we want to see.

        We have a lot of work ahead of us as a country

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          not enough in the long run, there must be something that prevents this shit from coming back if we manage to fix or improve it in anyway. Otherwise they will just bide their time and we are back at the same point but with even less chances to do anything about it.

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    Instead of “kill your local pedophile” a lot more rewarding slogan could be “kill you local CEO”.

    Pedophiles and ceos are in the same category for me.

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      Cause they know what they are doing is wrong!

      I doubt it.

      If they actually came to that realization, they would change how they do business.

      • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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        I used to think that way. Indeed, one of my favorite quotes is from D&D, where an Arcanaloth, a being who is literally the physical manifestation of neutral evil, says “My friend, do you truly believe we consider ourselves evil? No, we seek only good. It’s just that our definitions don’t quite match.”

        But more and more in the real world I have come to believe these people know that what they are doing is wrong…and they don’t care.

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          That’s the difference between sociopath and psychopath. Not understanding that something is wrong, and knowing something is wrong and not caring.

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    Can someone with more knowledge of the industry explain why hits even legal that an insurance company gets to decide whether it pays claims or not? Shouldn’t a third independent party decide?

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      Insurance IS the third party. From an idealist perspective, insurance is supposed to be negotiating rates with doctors (independent contractors) to try to set a baseline for services and negotiate on your behalf to make sure a doctor isn’t charging 10k to apply a bandage.

      Eventually insurance companies found out they were holding both the patient approval and writing the policy and started lobbying until they became monster they are today. Now both patients and doctors hate they have embedded themselves in the process siphoning money.

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    I enjoy how this article basically enumerates every name removed from their sites.