Brian Thompson

Hello.

Okay, so today I’m going to talk about Brian Thompson and UnitedHealthcare.

What’s amazing is how many people are rushing to the defense of the authorities and denouncing this assassin. 

You see, I think this guy, Thompson  is a criminal. He’s no different than John Gotti or Whitey Bulger. I didn’t shed a tear when John Gotti died in prison. Did you?

I didn’t shed a tear when Whitey Bulger was murdered in prison. I thought it was an indictment of our prison system, but I wasn’t unhappy that he died. These two men, John Gotti and Whitey Bulger, they hurt many, many people, killed many people, robbed many people. A lot of people suffered because of these two guys. Well, the same goes for this guy, Brian Thompson of United Healthcare. 

United Healthcare is not a nice company. They sit at the top of the list for denying claims. And they do other things as well. This guy Thompson apparently had deployed an AI bot to automatically deny people’s claims. 

It is 100% immoral to automatically deny these claims. The claims should be denied based upon some sort of solid rationale, not just throwing out every fourth claim or every eighth claim because you have an algorithm that does this. And trust me, UnitedHealthcare isn’t the only company who does this.

Now this is frustrating to patients. It’s also frustrating to providers. Many years ago, Medicaid services in Texas used to be run just by the state. And then they decided to sort of, I guess, privatize it in a way.

And they divided it up amongst several companies who would compete for the contract. And United Healthcare was one, Superior was another, Molina was another, and Driscoll, which is a hospital system out of Corpus Christi, was another. 

I discovered after they implemented this system that certain basic cold medicines that I would write for certain children were being were being denied and it wasn’t like every scrip was being denied. 

So I’ll give you an example. Let’s say I wrote for Bromfed. It wasn’t like every Bromfed scrip was being denied. It was only at certain pharmacies. And we found that in talking to the pharmacist that the same prescription could be accepted in the morning and then denied in the afternoon. So it was clear to me that someone had developed some sort of computer program that was running an algorithm that could automatically deny meds. And of course then, patients have to go without their meds. 

Now this was happening primarily with cold medicines, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was happening with even more important meds. So Brian Thompson was the head of a health care company and he knowingly knew that these kinds of things was going on. Now, this is immoral, this is an obscenity, and it also makes Brian Thompson a threat to the rest of us. He’s a threat to our health. He’s a threat to our longevity and our survival. And you have to ask yourself, how many people died because of UnitedHealthcare’s automatic denials?

You know, a lot of people just give up during an appeals process. Not being medical people, they don’t understand that there’s an automatic denial. And so they just give up. And that’s what United Healthcare and other insurance companies want you to do. The people being denied don’t understand, because they’re not in health care, that you just appeal that and it may get approved later on. So you have to wonder how many people died, how many people suffered. So that makes Brian Thompson and his lieutenants accomplices to misery and murder. 

So I don’t I don’t shed one tear over Brian Thompson’s death. He got what he deserved. It was only a matter of time before someone did something like this. I’m just surprised that this guy, Luigi Mangione, having gone to all this care and detail in finding out when this guy was going to come out of his hotel and cross the street, why he didn’t have an escape plan, and why he didn’t have a more elaborate plan to take out more people. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. This was an educated guy. 

So I’m not going to denounce this killing at all. This guy Mangione, he is not doing anything different than our founding fathers did over 250years ago when they fought the British. 

Whether you want to believe it or not, your founding fathers –  people like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison – were violent men. These weren’t a bunch of peaceniks.  They tried doing things  the nice way, but King George wouldn’t listen. And then these founding fathers of ours, who we think so highly of, I think highly of them, made the decision that the only way that things were going to change was if they engaged in violence against the British Empire or the governing force in America. 

This was British America. And so these founding fathers were supporting others who were openly defying the law. No different than Luigi Mangione killing Brian Thompson.

Now, some of you may think, “Oh, that’s just horrible the way he killed Brian Thompson, you know, because he shot him in the back. It was kind of a sneak attack. He was lying in wait. It was an ambush.”

Well, your colonists 250 years ago did the same thing. They didn’t fight fair against the British. They hid behind rocks, they hid behind trees, they conducted sneak attacks, and they took down the British, and that’s why we have a country today. So you’ll see many people in the mainstream media who condemn openly what this young man, Luigi Mangione, did. They’re trying to appear as noble people, as taking the high road. “I’m above violence”. How many times have you heard people say that?

“I renounce violence. I renounce violence. I’m so noble”. Well, your founding fathers didn’t renounce violence, and that’s the reason you have a country today. So think about that before you denounce what Luigi Mangione did. This young man, he sacrificed everything. He basically gave up his life to do what he thought was right. You know, many people portray him as this lefty nutjob, anti-capitalist nutjob.

And, well, maybe he was anti-capitalist, okay? Maybe he was a person who believed in climate change. I’m not sure why that is important. I’m not anti-capitalist and I’m not a climate change nut job. But at the same time, I can see that what this guy Luigi Mangione did was to take out a bad guy. 

Now you have this girl who worked at this McDonald’s, who turned Mangione into the police. She’s probably young, she hasn’t been around for a long time, she probably doesn’t know about the problems in health care or the crimes of health care insurance companies. She doesn’t understand that health care insurance has evolved from a mutual support organization to a criminal money-making enterprise. And so she probably thinks, “Hey, I’m being a good citizen. I’m doing the right thing by turning him in.” I don’t think she did the right thing at all. I don’t think she should have turned him in at all.

But I understand why she did. She’s young. She hasn’t lived long enough to understand what’s been going on in the United States. And what’s been going on in the United States over the last, I’ll say my lifetime, which is 70 years now, is that, as regards to health care, greed has taken over the system. The problem in health care today is greed. I mentioned that before in another video on Mark Bertolini. 

Greed is the problem. See, an insurance company is supposed to be a mutual support organization where we agree to insure each other. But when you create a greedy society in which the goal is to become a billionaire, well then that noble aspect falls by the wayside. And the goal then is to make profits. So United Healthcare is part of United Health Group. So they’re probably putting tremendous pressure on Brian Thompson, to make profits.

Money, profits, bottom line. This is reinforced by the various broadcasters on CNBC and Fox Business, who help foster this greedy culture. And many of us buy into it because we want to get rich. And we’re all affected by this. I think that a certain amount of greed is okay when you’re talking about television sets and tech, iPhones, things like that. But when it comes to health care, health care is a whole different ball game altogether. 

Health care is a profession, not a business. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be. But as I say, increasingly in the last 70 years, healthcare has become a business, a means to get rich. This has occurred not only in the insurance company, but of course in hospitals, in Big Pharma, and even in doctor’s practices now.

Not so much in pediatrics, but in the more high dollar fields within specialties. So you’ll see national specialty groups. You’ll see it in oncology. You’ll see it in neonatology, because neonatologists make a lot more money than pediatricians.

You’ll see it in cardiology. 

So this is the trend. And it’s a bad trend. And this focus on greed is what allowed UnitedHealthcare to not look after the benefit of the patients first, but look after the needs of the executive team and the shareholders first. And that’s a big problem. So in summary, I don’t denounce what this guy, Luigi Mangione, did. Would I have the guts to do it myself?

Obviously I didn’t. But the best I can do is say that I’m not going to denounce what he did. Somebody had to do something like this to send a shockwave through the healthcare industry. I’m not sure anything is going to happen with this. It seems to me that United Healthcare, rather than taking home the right message, is taking home the wrong message. So United Healthcare’s response and the response of many insurance companies was to take down the names of the CEO and the executive team off their website. They took that off the internet, right? What they should have done is sit back and ask themselves, “What did we do wrong? Maybe we need to change our ways. Maybe we need to not do automatic denials. Maybe we need to look after the patients first.” 

To tell you the truth, insurance companies and a lot of these healthcare organizations should be should be operated as utilities.

They need a different set of regulations, more stringent regulation, stringent regulation on CEO pay, how much a shareholder can take out of the company.  With regard to hospitals, proper patient to nurse ratios, how many lab techs they need to keep on at night, how many x-ray techs they need to keep on at night, you know, proper staffing ratios for the hospital to prevent CEOs and shareholders from doing what they’re doing now, which is stripping the system bare so that they can make money. And if they did these things, which is what they should do,then we won’t have any more murders of people like Brian Thompson. Now this is what Congress should do, but that seems unlikely. So I would anticipate in the future that there’s going to be more violence down the road unless Congress starts thinking. Because greed is getting out of hand. Alright, I think that’s enough for today. And, um…

And, um… See you later, baby.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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