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Witty’s op-ed, billionaire permitting, Murdoch loses
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LIVE from your ESG-powered Vitamix A3500 Ascent Series Smart Blender, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at December 13th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Ongoing NEO murder stuff, Rupert Murdoch fails to screw over 75% of his children, God eats McDonald’s, and hot sauce is going woke
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Story of the Week (DR):
NEO shooter, continued MM
UnitedHealth Group CEO addresses Brian Thompson death, says healthcare system is 'flawed'
“a brilliant, kind man who was working to make health care better for everyone”
No proof of that, of course
“When a colleague proposed a new idea to Brian, he would always ask, “Would you want this for your own family?” If not, end of discussion.”
Also, really?
“His dad spent more than 40 years unloading trucks at grain elevators. B.T., as we knew him, worked farm jobs as a kid and fished at a gravel pit with his brother.“
See, he’s one of you
Foxbusiness and foxnews is referring to Luigi as “ivy league graduate Luigi Mangione”
“The ideas he advocated were aimed at making health care more affordable, more transparent, more intuitive, more compassionate — and more human. That’s Brian’s legacy, one that we will carry forward by continuing our work to make the health system work better for everyone.”
His other legacy is TSC of $30M over past 3 years and roughly $40M in equity
“we also are struggling to make sense of this unconscionable act and the vitriol that has been directed at our colleagues who have been barraged by threats. No employees — be they the people who answer customer calls or nurses who visit patients in their homes — should have to fear for their and their loved ones’ safety.”
Amazing deflection because people are clearly angry at the… EXECUTIVES
But maybe he DOES understand the vitriol:
“We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people’s frustrations with it.”
“Clea