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Health insurers remove executive bios, images from websites after 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. 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. Words like “deny” and “depose” were found on round and shell casings at the scene, according to multiple outlets, which could be related to a phrase used to critique health insurers for avoiding covering medical care.

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