John Drake

Are you Syrian Girl from X?

The Turks could still dominate it. But I will bet anything Erdogan moves into the Kurdish zone and annexes it, while wiping out all possible Kurdish resistance. Is there a chance the overall map is radically redrawn? Putin may have something to fear from the Turks now. I saw videos on X of the Syrian rebels already broadcasting into Muslim areas of Russia, urging them to topple their occupiers.

Partition? Israel creates a Druze dominated buffer state? Turkey occupies the Kurdish zone to the north? Syrian rump state left in the middle?

Saddest man in the world right now, after Assad and Putin? Jackson Hinkle?

I see some claims that the plane he was in crashed and he may be dead. All the fog of war, of course. Will need to wait and see how things shake out. One thing for sure, Erdogan and Turkey are jubilant. They were behind this.

Assad gone? Maybe dead? The Russians are fleeing. And the Iranians have already evacuated (in both senses).

This is how Xi consolidated power in China.

I provided the link above. Here it is again. https://www.yahoo.com/news/murdered-insurance-ceo-had-deployed-175638581.html

Hunter Biden still has him beat.

Because the claimant is in the morgue?

Even if they get the insurance, they're still in virtual financial slavery for the premium and co-pays, so that whatever life saved can be ruined as well. That's why you encounter people who would rather die than put their families in debt slavery to the health care system.

Good point. A closed system, where the money if funneled directly from the government to the "system."

You wonder why Medicare wouldn't do the same. And agree to pay for medical treatment for expatriates in Thailand rather than have them go home and drain the system in the US.

Do that. I favor it. But Medicare Part B requires a premium too, along with a 20 percent copay. People would still go bankrupt. You're only going to solve the problem by reducing the number of administrators and the pay of doctors, nurses, and staff.

That is true. But people are avoiding the elephant in the room. And that is what we pay physicians, nurses, hospital admin and staff. It's too much, and it's crippling the entire social system. I'd include insurance admin and processing too. Reducing the pay of the paper shufflers is central to the reform. But so is a reduction in payments to doctors and nurses. Just because someone graduates medical school should not give them a direct pathway to living the lifestyle of a Renaissance Pope.

When you're denied coverage in the emergency room and die of a heart attack, it's always good to know your heirs will eventually be allowed payment (minus deductible), I suppose.

Hence the three words on the bullets: delay, deny, depose.

It may have been the newly employed AI that caused the problem. Or people just feel that they no longer have control over their lives because of expenses.

This guy, Thompson, apparently had a pretty bad history of insider trading and pushing the envelope as far as creating a system that denied claims. Add in the really bizarre assassination, a better word than "killing," I think, and you have a situation that is going to send shivers down a lot of C-suite types in the healthcare business. The specialized subsonic pistol with a silencer and the three ejected bullets with words on them in permanent ink, "delay," "deny," "depose," I'm sure has them looking over their shoulders.

I think the US healthcare system has become such an abomination that there are likely thousands, if not tens of thousands, of time bombs out there who feel they haven't got anything to lose.

I don't mind using Fox News, but it didn't come up in my google search (I was looking for articles that specifically focused on the online response to the killing), which is another issue in and of itself I guess.

You only need to go to the AN topics on the US and see how many UK people spend their time there. OTOH, not many Americans go to the UK topics. I know I maybe read five or so percent of them, and rarely post a message. And as for "John Drake," McGoohan was born and died in the US; he was an American citizen; he worked in the US; he was not a British citizen. You're free to claim Peter Lawford, however, if you want him.

I used the Guardian because the other acceptable to AN sources were behind a paywall.

Seems most people don't care. This guy headed up a company that employed an AI that at one point was denying 90 percent of claims.

It's a TV show. Not reality. What I posted was simple fact. People in the US don't give much thought at all to what happens in the UK, while UKers obsess over America and Americans, as your post demonstrates. BTW, "John Drake" worked for World Wide Travel" in New York City, where he was stationed.