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> People hate CEOs of companies that must make difficult decision,

No, People hate CEO's making greedy, selfish, unnecessary decisions that cost lives and cause suffering.

Be honest.




Again, you exemplify the exact attitude I describe. Can you point to any single decision that Thompson made that cost live and causes suffering? You can’t, but you assume there must have been some, because you start with assumption that the victim here is guilty, and only then try to find reasons why.


> Again, you exemplify the exact attitude I describe.

That's fine. I think you exemplify the attitude that lead to Thompson's murder and will lead to many more similar incidents.

> Can you point to any single decision that Thompson made that cost live and causes suffering? You can’t, but you assume there must have been some,

If denials tripled under his watch, as CEO you don't think he necessarily was involved in that? He clearly approved of profiting off of literal unnecessary deaths.

> because you start with assumption that the victim here is guilty

The most basic of reasoning shows he has some moral guilt, just not legal guilt.

P1 - He was the head decision maker

P2 - Decision was made to actively increase unnecessary deaths for monetary gain

C - He ultimately approved of that decision


If denials tripled under his watch, as CEO you don't think he necessarily was involved in that? He clearly approved of profiting off of literal unnecessary deaths.

You have yet to show that tripling denials of a particular category of claims is even wrong in the first place. Let me repeat: any system will deny some claims, so denied claims are not prima facie evidence of anything wrong.

Decision was made to actively increase unnecessary deaths for monetary gain

Nobody had shown any evidence whatsoever that anything like that happened. Not only are denied claims not automatically wrong, but also changes in denial rate do not even need to correspond to any decision or change in policy, but may instead result from changes of external factors.

He ultimately approved of that decision

What decision? You just assume that there had been some decision, that Bryan Thompson approved, and that it was nefarious. There is as of now zero evidence for this, this is just your speculation. Murdering people based on speculations like that is profoundly evil, and so is excusing it.


> You have yet to show that tripling denials of a particular category of claims is even wrong in the first place.

Honestly this is a pretty bad faith argument. They are denying at a significantly higher rate than their competitors, their internal policy focused around denying, and enough people are getting screwed over that a murder was committed.

But yeah, sure, assume this is all business as normal and not at all morally wrong to make your argument if you must.

> Nobody had shown any evidence whatsoever that anything like that happened.

Basic. Reasoning.

If claim denials triple during a time when a particular CEO is in place, that CEO would have had to have something to do with that.

> Not only are denied claims not automatically wrong,

They are on this scale and when the denials are bad faith. I can't prove that to you unless their documents get leaked, but that's for legal matters. For moral matters, the evidence supports that the difference from the drastic increase were indeed bad faith denials.

> What decision? You just assume that there had been some decision, that Bryan Thompson approved, and that it was nefarious.

Exactly, because he was CEO.

> There is as of now zero evidence for this, this is just your speculation.

He was CEO.

> Murdering people based on speculations like that is profoundly evil, and so is excusing it.

He was CEO. He oversaw a company going out of their way to deny claims even if you want to play devils advocate and pretend to be ignorant and deny that.

What he did was far more evil than a single murder, and what you are doing in defending the system that caused someone to feel that they had to murder it also more evil, the system that allows for shitty health insurance companies to cause so much pain and suffering. THAT, is evil.




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