No Motive Is Known

I was listening to the news on the radio today, and they were talking about the shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson in New York on December 4.

They said the police are investigating, but at this time, no motive is known.

No motive is known.

Really?

The NYPD commissioner stated, “ At this time, every indication is that this was a premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack.”

So I ask, what could the shooter’s motive be?

A popular phrase in the insurance industry is “delay, deny, defend”. The shooter had written on one of the shell casings “Depose.” and on another “Deny” and on a third casing Delay”.

In 2010, Rutgers Law School professor Jay Feinman published a book on the practice titled "Delay Deny Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It."

"The denial of valid insurance claims is not occasional or accidental or the fault of a few bad employees. It's the result of an increasing and systematic focus on maximizing profits by major companies such as Allstate and State Farm," the book’s description reads.

UnitedHealthcare is part of UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest insurance company, and the fourth largest company in America. Their annual sales are US$324 billion, growing by US$47.5 billion this past year. They are the world’s 9th largest company. They have 440,000 employees.

Now they have one less.

No motive was known.

UnitedHealthcare is familiar to controversies going back many years. There were the alleged practices in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). There were allegations of price fixing and insider trading. In July 2024, the Wall Street Journal concluded that UnitedHealth was the worst offender among private insurers who made dubious diagnoses of their clients in order to trigger large payments from the government's Medicare Advantage program. The patients often did not receive any treatment for those insurer-added diagnoses. The report, based on Medicare data obtained from the federal government under a research agreement, calculated that diagnoses added by UnitedHealth for diseases patients had never been treated for had yielded $8.7 billion in payments to the company in 2021 – over half of its net income of $17 billion for that year. (Source Wikipedia)

The suspected shooter is described as a white male dressed in dark clothing. That keen description should help narrow the field of suspects. He could have been anybody.

No motive is known. He has been described as "extremely camera savvy".

Do you think the woman with stage 4 cancer who was denied benefits has much sympathy? Could it be possible that someone who owes part of the estimated $220 billion in US medical debt might not have kind thoughts with regards to this shooting?

Do we think that any of the 756 billionaires in America are worried, building taller walls around their compounds, hiring more surveillance and security companies?

And are we really surprised that the mainstream media announces “No motive is known” with a straight face?

Hmmmm. I wonder what the motive could be.

Will the revolution be televised on security cameras?