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Sorry for the pickiness. But the Hilton is on 6th between 53rd and 54th.

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Ahh, you are right! I've only walked past it a thousand times, too.

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I don’t mind if you lie to us once in a while. You’ve earned it, with all those truth bombs you’ve put out 😉

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A mistake is not a lie. Especially when it's insignificant.

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I believe that was a joke! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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must be a liberal. They can't take a joke.

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You’re right. I used to work directly across 6th from the Hilton.

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Well this is definitely sad no matter how you feel about health insurance.

But I tell you what isnt sad, is We The People in Florida singlehandedly committed a public online execution of Chronister (Trumps DEA pick). He withdrew his nomination in less than 24 hours.

Judge for yourself based on the comments.

It's also a direct message to Trump that he is not beyond reproach for his c19 mistakes.

We The People have our voice back.

WE ARE WINNING!

https://x.com/ChadChronister/status/1864068222309277751?s=19

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And it looks like MAGA media is going after the Surgeon General pick. Trump can do better here. Maybe SG Ladapo out of Florida?

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Nice. I would LOVE Ladapo!

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We need him to push one reconciliation bill not 2. If they put taxes off until later in 2025 it will never happen. You can’t trust anyone on Congress.

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Agree

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Given the literally thousands of people Trump needs to nominate for various posts, certainly he wouldn't know the details about everyone he nominates. Although it seems like among those around him, someone should have known about Chronister. However, the encouraging thing is that once informed, Trump took care of it and the guy is gone.

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Exactly. He's a changed man...for the good imo

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That's interesting too. I had no idea. I missed so much of the BS living in rural Nebraska.

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Its glorious imo!

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Chronister told Floridians during the COVID crazy days that they were allowed to go on our gorgeous waterways boating, but they needed to keep a safe distance of 50 feet from the nearest boat!🤔. We cannot forget or forgive those who imposed stupid restrictions.

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He also had a minister arrested for keeping his church open.

The constitution is not just for when times are "easy" it's to protect us in times of panic just like the scamdemic.

Chickens came home to roost for him.

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Yes, you are so right about the dastardly deed of arresting a pastor! No excuse fur tyranny.

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Well, good. I think nominating a pastor-arresting covidian was not only insulting to every Christian MAHA but rather inexplicable in the base case.

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Or maybe it was a health care provider. Perhaps a physician in private practice, who is going out of business and losing everything because that's been the plan perpetuated by big health insurance for years as they force private physicians into the corporate crate. As a private physician who has watched this happen and have had the experience of floundering in ridiculous amounts of paperwork only to be paid less and less, if not denied compensation for my services altogether, I have hated insurance executives as a group with a passion. Anyone who doesn't realize that insurance companies are major players in the compromise of our national healthcare situation is naive. They are naught but another siphon of wealth away from the citizenry, including physicians. UHC is one of the worst.

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The first person I thought of related to this story was the parody YouTuber who’s an ophthalmologist in real life, Dr Glacomaflecken (not sure about the spelling). Many of his videos featured extremely pointed comments about UnitedHealthCare.

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Sorry for the man and his family.

Guess Albert Bourla will be doubling his security since he was much more visibly pushing the mandates and profiting vs a more low visibilty insurance exec

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Alex, start investigating this. Look for possible motives first. Personally, I think the victim knew things that could implicate some very important people in organized crime, government, or the pharmaceutical industry, or all three (are they even distinguishable any more?), and they didn't want him to blow the whistle, or worse, testify.

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Won't surprise me if it comes out that it was just a "botched robbery", like that of Seth Rich.

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There's a lot of crime in that area, lots of "migrant" hotels and shelters around.

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I can't imagine that this was random.

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Nope. Someone had a claim denied - either for themselves or a loved one who may have died as a result - or is dying. The killer will be quickly arrested.

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NYC has been third world since DeBlasio was mayor.

I've lived in a third world country (Nigeria). In the third world, these kinds of crimes are NEVER solved. The perpetrators are NEVER apprehended.

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I prefer to call him the hand of God if you are speaking about denied claims. Otherwise executioner is a good term.

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If the co-s solve it, it will be astonshing. There must be at least 10 million suspects !

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Assassination isn't usually the m.o. of disgruntled customers. It is usually the m.o. of criminals who need to silence potential witnesses.

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That’s what I was thinking too…

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10 million a year…

His death is a tragedy as all deaths are, but I cannot get over the money. While most of the world makes little more than I did in my heyday in the 80’s these top dogs are making way too much money. It’s absurd. I’m all for capitalism, but what great new discoveries was he responsible for? What awesome thing did he do for humanity that corresponds to this kind of compensation? And he is probably just one of many at United Healthcare and other insurance companies that are robbing people. I went back to work at 60 because we are self employed and could no longer afford $3800 a month. And we have no health issues and that is what we were paying for private insurance.

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What some of these people make as CEOs is absolutely obscene. In addition to his crazy high salary, Alex mentioned that he apparently made $30 million in 3 years on the stock. Just obscene.

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Obscene is the perfect word choice. And while i would never channel my frustration into murder, I can empathize with someone who had possibly lost a loved one denied a life-saving drug from a company known for “deny, defend and depose” who loses their marbles and does something crazy. My son in law was in a clinical trial for Nucala. It was transformative (he has EGPA). He’s out of the trial and his insurance has denied Nucala 4x. He can’t breathe, he’s on steroids, he’s miserable. He’s on a different drug that costs THE SAME AMOUNT! And yet he has been denied 4x. I’ve made dozens of phone calls. You’re just an algorithm. That makes some people lose it. And although I know it’s wrong at some base level I get it.

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Alex, might I suggest that you get a proton mail email address? Sure gmail is fine for some things, but I bet there are plenty of people who might want to contact you at an email address that (seemingly) doesn't scan everything.

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Yes! He emailed and said he did. He needs to put it with the gmail. lol :-)

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Sad story. Unrelated to his death, it was eye-opening to learn that he earned $30 MILLION in three years (plus he probably got stock options worth millions). How many yachts did he need? Three others in the company are earning that disgusting and outrageous amount of money, while millions of people cannot afford to get healthcare because it is so expensive. These absurdly high salaries are out of control. My insurance skyrocketed after the Obama healthcare-socialism-disaster. To keep my monthly healthcare costs down, I got a plan with a high deductible. Now I never go to the doctor. I am surely subsidizing illegal aliens who ARE going to the doctors (due to my daily hard work). A broken and grossly unfair system.

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Deep state going to try to blame RFK for this! Going to say it's some loon who lost their kid to cancer and United Health didn't pay. Meanwhile, I guarantee you the health industry which is truly afraid for the first time contracted the CIA to take care of this.

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I stand corrected. Video has been uploaded to twitter of the assassination. That was a professional hitman who killed him. I don't care how many guns you have, no way your that calm in that situation if your just angry about how high your premiums are

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I can see the hearing now;

Mr Kennedy are you familiar with a book about healthcare with quote :Delay, deny, defend?

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I've been worried about unvaxxed being labeled as DVE for a while now but fortunately no one did

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This would give rogue fbi an excuse

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BINGO

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What an appalling act - thoughts are with his family.

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What hasn't been mentioned is that United Healthcare owns Change Healthcare, which processes maybe 30-40% of claims across the country. They had a very large breach/cyber attack last February that left clinics and hospitals around the country in limbo for weeks. There are still tremendous ramifications from that. Any connection there?

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Wasn’t United Health one of the firms who dealt with the Bidens? Just sayin’ this was a pro job using an E-bike to get away and heading through Central Park where there are no cameras. I doubt this guy gets caught and I wouldn’t be shocked to see him killed too. Not trying to toss in a conspiracy here but…

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He will be arrested within 24 hours.

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Really? How do you know that?

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Alex, thanks so much for acting like a true journalist on this and investigating it for your audience. We need this kind of art and skill these days.

👍👍

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Does make a person WONDER just what he knew or was going to expose perhaps OR maybe it was very personal which can mean many things

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It’s a sad state of affairs when my knee jerk reaction is he was going to blow a whistle on someone or some government agency.

Interesting that the initial press briefing was more informative than when they tried to assassinate DJT.

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My bet is it was personal. Revenge for someone denied a claim for care that is very ill, or already dead.

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could very well be!

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Truly no need for this senseless act. It does nothing good. Doesn’t impact the stock — unless there’s more at play here. More to come, but prayers indeed 🙏🏾

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There are those that want America to be like the rest of the world. I disagree. This and pardoning your son are not OK.

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