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Now that the first domino fell like Columbine, the billionaires are running scared and deleting their bios. I hope some brave person reposts their names, addresses and the schools their kids go to the exact way MAGAts do. I wonder if they'll now feel the same terror about their kids going to their fancy private schools as regular people do?

Health insurers remove executive bios, images from websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

UnitedHealth, Elevance and some BCBS plans have deleted senior leadership pages from their corporate sites, while Centene and CVS scrubbed images of their executives online.

Major health insurers are deleting images of their top leadership from corporate websites or removing executive pages entirely following the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this week.

Thompson, 50, was shot multiple times in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday in what appeared to be a targeted attack. Though many of Thompson’s peers expressed grief, the killing set off a morbidly gleeful celebration on social media, where posters on sites like X and Reddit applauded and joked about the crime to vent frustration and anger with health insurers.

The shooting and subsequent reaction has spurred healthcare companies to increase security around their executives, according to reports. Such measures appear to be extending online, as major insurers scrub identifying details of top personnel from their sites.

UnitedHealthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth quickly removed its executive leadership page after Thompson’s death. Some of its peers have since followed suit: Elevance’s senior leadership page is no longer online.

Executive pages for a number of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, including in North Carolina and Massachusetts, have also been deleted, while the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blues plans, removed a link to its executive bios from its “About Us” page

Blues-branded plans operated by Anthem were embroiled in the social media firestorm stoked by Thompson’s death this week, as commenters slammed an upcoming coverage policy to curtail anesthesia coverage for certain surgeries. Some posts threatened Blues executives unrelated to the change.

Elevance, Anthem’s parent company, canceled the policy rollout on Thursday, citing “significant widespread misinformation.”

Centene and CVS, which owns Aetna, have left executive biographies intact but removed headshots of their officers. Corporate governance pages for Cigna, Humana and Molina remained unchanged as of press time.

CVS confirmed that the executive images had been removed, but a spokesperson declined to comment as to why. Elevance and Centene did not respond to a request for comment.

However, Centene cited Thompson’s death in moving its investor day next week — originally scheduled to be an in-person conference in New York City — to a virtual-only event.

“In the wake of the tragic loss of UnitedHealthare’s CEO Brian Thompson, Centene’s Investor Day will now be hosted virtually,” the Thursday press release says.
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