Healthcare Innovation December 5, 2024
One day after the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, police are searching for the shooter
One day after the assassination by a gunman of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel, the first clues as to the motivation of the gunman, who remains at large in New York City, are pointing to anti-managed care resentment as a factor in the murder.
On Wednesday, Dec. 4, at about 6:45 A.M., Thompson, 50, was walking towards the entrance of the New York Hilton Midtown, as he prepared to lead UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor day meeting, when a man wearing a ski mask came up behind him and shot him with a gun with a silencer attached, and then fled on...