That's one of the leading theories. Obviously, there's not enough information to say for sure. But the CEO's wife has said that there were threats, possibly re

That's one of the leading theories. Obviously, there's not enough information to say for sure. But the CEO's wife has said that there were threats, possibly related to lack of coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killed-what-we-know-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-kille... > In an interview with NBC, Thompson’s widow, Paulette told the network that “there had been some threats” against her husband. > “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details,” she said. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.” And the shooter wrote the words "deny", "defend", and "depose" on shell casings that were found at the scene: https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-delay-deny-defend-depose-ee73ceb19f361835c654f04a3b88c50c https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-del... These words are reminiscent of the terms "delay, deny, defend", the title of a book about how the insurance company tries to avoid paying out on claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend So, one of the leading theories is that the shooter was motivated by some kind of case involving a denied claim. Obviously, there's not enough evidence yet to be sure of that, but that same frustration over insurers' failure to pay for necessary, life-saving treatments is part of why there's so much sympathy for the shooter and so little sympathy for the CEO who was shot. Of course, there are also other competing theories out there; it's possible that the whole bullet casings thing is just a ruse to distract people. But anger about how health insurance companies rack in record profits by denying life-saving healthcare to people has become a large part of this story.