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One of the largest health insurance companies in America has backtracked on a major policy change in the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassination.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) announced on Thursday that it would no longer be moving forward with a plan to limit reimbursement payments for anesthesia applied during surgery.

“There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy,” the insurer said in a statement, as reported by CNN. “As a result, we have decided to not proceed with this policy change.”

“To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services. The proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with well-established clinical guidelines,” the statement continued.

According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, which had come out against the policy update, Anthem BCBS plans in Connecticut, New Mexico, and Missouri would have no longer paid for anesthesia care if the surgery went “beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure [took].”

Word of the plan sparked massive backlash, including from infamous leftist lunatic Taylor Lorenz, who, besides justifying Thompson’s murder, sinisterly shared a photo of Anthem BCBS CEO Kim Keck to her social media account on Bluesky.

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It’s strongly suspected by some that Anthem BCBS ultimately backed down from its plan because of not only these sorts of insane social media posts but also because of Thompson’s stunning death and its aftermath.

Following the CEO’s death, an extraordinary number of people, including high-profile figures like Lorenz (formerly with The Washington Post and The New York Times) and Columbia professor Anthony Zenkus, rejoiced.

So many people rejoiced, in fact, that even NBC News, a left-wing outlet, raised concerns.

“Tens of thousands of people have expressed support on social media for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, or sympathized with it, in what at least one researcher is calling a worrying sign of radicalization among segments of the U.S. population,” the network reported Thursday.

NBC News went on to cite posts on Bluesky, as well as “thousands of similar posts on X.”

“The surge of social media posts praising and glorifying the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is deeply concerning,” Alex Goldenberg of the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University told NBC News.

“We’ve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter. The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming,” he added.

Even Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, a radical leftist herself, was perturbed by the celebrations.

“It was shocking to me to see prominent people, not just bots, defending, condoning, mocking, celebrating gun violence,” she told NBC News. “Two things can be true: The health insurance system is broken and must be fixed, and also gun violence and murder is wrong.”

Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat, has also slammed the celebrations, much to his credit.

“Seems like leftists opposed to killing terrorists in the Middle East support killing CEOs in Midtown Manhattan,” he rightly noted in a tweet.

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Writing for USA Today, columnist Ingrid Jacques linked these celebrations to how the left reacted after the barely failed assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump over the summer.

“[O]ne survey shortly after the shooting found that a third of Democrats polled agreed with the statement, ‘I wish Trump’s assassin hadn’t missed,’” she wrote. “No matter how much one may dislike or disagree with Trump, it doesn’t justify this kind of violent rhetoric.”

“The same goes for Thompson, a business executive who absolutely did not deserve to die. We can and should debate our political differences and highlight ways to improve certain industries. Celebrating death or violence? That’s beyond the pale,” she added.

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