4sight Health December 10, 2024
Before dawn on Wednesday, December 4, United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson approached the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan for an investor meeting. Thompson had arrived early to prep for the session.
Just before entering the hotel, a masked assailant emerged from the shadows and shot him multiple times. Doctors at Mount Sinai West Hospital pronounced Thompson dead shortly after. The assassination’s location and timing — in America’s financial capital before an investor meeting — were not coincidental. Bullet casings found at the scene had the words “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose” written on them.
By all accounts, Brian Thompson was a talented, hard-working and honorable man who rose from modest circumstances to become CEO of the nation’s largest commercial health insurance...