The Minnesota headquarters of UnitedHealth had been rocked by two massive protests simply months earlier than CEO Brian Thompson was executed in Manhattan Wednesday — because the boss’ former safety supplier expressed shock he didn’t have safety within the Huge Apple.
Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was stationed on the firm’s headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, the place greater than 100 demonstrators descended in April and July to protest an alleged “epidemic” of claims denials, The Wall Road Journal reviews.
Throughout the July protest, eleven demonstrators had been arrested, together with folks from Minnesota, Illinois, Maine, Texas, West Virginia and New York, in response to Minnetonka police.
The Individuals’s Motion Institute, which led the April and July protests, mentioned it was shocked by Thompson’s loss of life — however nonetheless used the tragedy to focus on what it mentioned was a “crisis of denials” in America.
“We know there is a crisis of gun violence in America. There is also a crisis of denials of care by private health insurance corporations including UnitedHealth,” the group mentioned in a press release Wednesday.
“The People’s Action Care Over Cost campaign gives people a productive, nonviolent, democratic way to create change on this problem. Both of these crises must end. Our political leaders must act on both,” they added.
