# UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Manhattan \[breaking news: 2024-12-04\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159 "2024-12-04T16:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 775
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159/775 "2024-12-12T02:46:17Z")
Moderating: Reminder, this is the breaking news thread. > [@United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-healthcare-ceo-assassinated-the-p-e-edition-this-is-not-a-gun-debate-statistics-thread/1011195/317): > > 50 years ago - “Medicare for all” was proposed as far back as the Nixon administration (then Watergate derailed a lot of stuff that might have otherwise happened). > [@Zoobi](#): > > Ad long as Republicans exist and keep getting voted into office, universal health care will never ever ever happen. If you voted Republican or supported Republicans in your past you can look at yourself in the mirror when trying to find someone to blame. > > Your bloodthirsty fantasies aren’t going to do anything. > [@RickJay](#): > > Look, if you want murders to just be a thing people encourage because they don’t like some element of public policy, I wish you well. It’s not going to turn out the way you were hoping > [@LSLGuy](#): > > As mentioned upthread, Nixon of all people was in the process of extending Medicare to everyone when Watergate intervened. > > Republicans then and now are very different parties. Dems too, but the R’s have had a brain-ectomy and been turned into Beelzebub, while Ds now are simply much of what Rs used to be then. These would all be better in the companion political thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-breaking-news-2024-12-04/1011159)._