Assassination in Midtown Manhattan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, we got an app Well, we all witnessed
ah on tape scene assassination in Midtown Manhattan, chief executive
of United Healthcare's health insurance arm shot outside the Hilton

(00:39):
get a busy day two in New York tree lighting ceremony.
The uh, they said, man hunters underway for the suspect
who was lying in wait for the executive. He shot
him in the back and the lake fled on foot

(01:01):
the skin outside Hilton Midtown, Manhattan, six forty five am.
Again a lot of people buzzing around at that point
in time. The suspect wrote in e byke to Central
Park where he was last seen. Police said he planned
the attack, but they don't know why. Now that's that's obvious.

(01:23):
That that's as plain as day. Give me my thoughts
on this. Yeah, I was thinking about it. I remember
remember in the first Beverly Hills cop when the they
did the professional hit on Axel Foley's friend. They are

(01:44):
outside his apartment and Axel Foley, you know, bigs up
and the police chief explained to was a professional hit.
And Axel's like, well, how do you know it was
a professional hit? Whoever whoever was there didn't care about you.
And again that was the only plot hole in the
entire movie, because Axel was a great cop and he
would have known that that was a professional hit, professional meeting.

(02:05):
It was, you know, somebody was hired. Somebody would experience
was hired to kill someone. Now, this person who committed
this crime had a silencer on his gun. Those things
are not that easy to come by, and sometimes you're
able to trace those things. I don't know. I don't know,

(02:31):
And things are going to happen over the next couple
of days, which will you know. Obviously shed a little
bit more light on it. First and foremost, claim denial
insurance rates by insurance companies United Healthcare is the worst.
The first thing that popped into my head was someone
someone lost a family member. And again, these people this

(02:54):
is all speculation, okay, and I no onally don't like
to speculate when it comes to I'm just laying out
the various diferent things that this could be, because there's
more to it than just that claim denial rates by
insurance company United Healthcare thirty two percent. Thirty two percent, Yeah,

(03:18):
that's that's pretty high. And what was that movie with
the John Grisham was the brainmaker there with Matt Dillon
going after the insurance companies. I mean, it wasn't that bad,
but this is this is pretty bad. Thirty two percent
claim denial rates for an insurance company, and I could
most of the first thing popped in my head is somebody,

(03:39):
somebody lost a loved one due to an insurance denial
or whatever it may be and seeking retribution. However, it
could be more to that. He was United Healthcare was
involved in a hack again within Palo Alto Networks, was

(04:03):
involved in regards to the security. You also had a
situation where he was set to testify in front of Congress.
Who knows if he was planning on spilling the beans
about things that were happening within the insurance industry, that
to me would breakdown. It would be a professional hit,
and somebody was hired to take this guy out for

(04:25):
whatever reason it may be. The sad thing is is
that you know most Americans don't think that these things
are real, but they are. They are there, There's no
doubt about it. Again, it could go in many different directions.
On one side note when it comes to this story

(04:47):
is if you're seeing the way people are reacting online,
you got to lot of far lefty. They hate insurance.
They just hate insurance companies by nature. Listen, I'm not
a fan of insurance companies either, in particular the whole industry.

(05:10):
We we have taken and we have destroyed Obamacare. Healthcare
here in this country, in my opinion, is a disaster.
It's a disaster. But they're applauding, applauding his death and
cheering on you get the you know, the notes that
are put out there. It's like, oh yeah, well, you know,

(05:31):
you know, we have to wait and see before we
give thoughts and prayers, kind of like making fun of
the process the insurance companies have. Don't don't be like that.
Don't be like that. We don't know why he was
killed myriad of different reasons. And you know what, if
they don't, if they do not find the person that

(05:54):
that did the shooting, that's that's it's a pro hit.
It's a pro hit, and it's something much deeper. Watchdog
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