A Florida woman faces a charge of threats to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism after she ended a call with a Blue Cross-Blue Shield customer service agent who had just denied her health insurance claim by saying “delay, deny, depose – you people are next,” ABC News reports.
Briana Boston, a 42-year-old registered Dem living in Lakeland, Florida was cuffed at some point after the Tuesday call in which she echoed the “deny,” “depose,” “defend” scratched into the bullet casings left at the scene of Luigi Mangione’s assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, themselves a slight bastardized version of the title of a 2010 book by Rutgers Law Prof Jay Feinman titled “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it” (which was apparently more about home and auto than health insurance).
Would like to write that hitting a woman fucked over by her health insurance company with a non-specific threat like this – Boston didn’t say she was going to come kill them – but we wouldn’t let the same ambiguity get in the way if this were some MAGA terrorist saying something similar to a Dem politician. That said, this is the second time in two days Blue Cross Blue Shield’s denial of a claim is in the news here and a company (entire industry) confident in its position doesn’t start acting so publicly fearfully in response to the every day people suffering needlessly due to their policies.
They’re afraid and people are catching on. Time to leverage that fear against them.