Taylor Lorenz Says ‘We Want These Executives Dead’ After Health Insurance CEO Assassinated

Taylor Lorenz, a former Washington Post and New York Times reporter and current podcaster for Vox Media, said on Wednesday that she wants health insurance executives “dead” just hours after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in Midtown Manhattan.

On the social media platform Bluesky, Lorenz reposted a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia costs for the entirety of some surgeries. Lorenz wrote, “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.” In another post, Lorenz reposted a different link to the Blue Cross report and included a screenshot of Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Kim Keck.

On X, Lorenz reposted a user who wrote, “Brian Thompson killed more US Citizens than every serial killer combined, but because he made money off it the media considered him a successful businessman and morally upstanding citizen.” Lorenz also reposted a Bluesky user who wrote, “[H]ypothetically, would it be considered an actionable threat to start emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘you’re next’? Completely unrelated to current events btw.”

Lorenz later justified her posts about Thompson and other health insurance executives, writing, “People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.”

The leftist tech writer told Fox News that her post “is explaining the public sentiment.”

“That said, healthcare executives absolutely want people dead as long as it helps their bottom line and that’s the entire problem,” Lorenz added. “My sympathies are with the innocent people who have died or suffered after being denied coverage by greedy insurance companies.”

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Other leftists also condemned Thompson and insurance company CEOs after the assassination. Columbia University professor Anthony Zenkus wrote, “Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down…. wait, I’m sorry – today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires.”

David Austin Walsh, a historian and College Fellow at the University of Virginia, posted, “It’s actually kind of touching that the one thing that can bring together our fractious and disunited country is celebrating the assassination of a health insurance CEO.”

“Anyway try to live your life in such a way that if you’re murdered the entire Internet doesn’t think that you had it coming,” he added.

Thompson, 50, was killed on Wednesday morning by a masked gunman in dark clothing. The assassin shot the health insurance CEO multiple times before fleeing the scene and is still at-large. Detectives investigating the scene where Thompson was killed found shell casings with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” written on them, according to ABC News.

Thompson received multiple death threats before he was killed, and authorities are looking into the nature and source of those threats. UnitedHealthcare has been criticized for denying patients’ claims.