Headline is deflecting blame.
Slain healthcare CEO found to have been overcharging cancer patients by 1000%
I take more as Brian is dead but UHC isn’t. They’re still responsible for this shit despite his death.
Blaming Thompson for these prices is shifting the blame. Thompson was the CEO; he wasn’t writing these company policies himself. He approved of these policies, but CEOs aren’t hands-on enough to have this kind of impact on prices.
There are plenty of other ghouls at UHC who are actually more directly to blame for this. And, unlike Thompson, they can still be punished for it.
I mean, the real issue is the government allowing for-profit Healthcare to run rampant.
In the upper-class ideology of meritocracy, the CEO gets paid the really big bucks because he takes the risks, and he’s ultimately responsible for the performance of the company. The buck stops at the C-level. Seems to me that if the benefits flow to the top, so should the costs.
That doesn’t preclude punishing all of the ghouls, of course.
I don’t disagree, I’m just saying that blaming solely Thompson would otherwise excuse the others who are arguably more responsible for engineering this hellscape. The sort of responsibility you describe is figurative, at best. You could say he took one for the team, but I think the whole team needs to go, all the way down to the waterboy. Otherwise you just replace one shitty coach with another and have the same shit team making the same shit plays.
I once asked a medical facility what “hospital services” was after I was billed $700 to make an appointment… They hung up on me.
