Insurance CEO’s killing spurred interest, epilogue in Jeremy White’s upcoming memoir

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Baton Rouge, LA — August 25, 2025 — Weeks after a literary agent advised author Jeremy White to “stir the conversation” before launching InHumana: An American Healthcare Story, the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson thoroughly did just that. The resulting concurrent surge of anger at insurers and interest in his upcoming memoir prompted White to pen an epilogue that addresses “Deny,” “Defend,” and “Depose.”

“When news alerts of Thompson’s killing began popping up on millions of phones,” White recalls, “friends began reaching out to me. ‘I thought of you as soon as I saw the first alert,’ one friend messaged. ‘Not in a where-is-Jeremy sort of way,’ she clarified.” Days after his former podcast co-host told White he “might be at the point of the spear at the perfect moment,” another friend, the owner of Baton Rouge’s oldest PR firm, insisted, “This is a story that needs to be told. And right now … This minute.”

InHumana tells how White, an only child, was conscripted into a war with a soulless monstrosity that repeatedly tried to throw his widowed mom’s life away with the surreptitious aid of unregulated artificial intelligence. Months after a stroke and two seizures robbed White’s mom of use of her right side, a federal judge ruled her the victor of their war against Humana for wrongfully denying critically needed care. Their battle, which involved multiple hearings and appeals, is one that fewer than 10% of denied Medicare Advantage Plan members like her bother fighting, despite a 90% success rate for appeals. A Pulitzer-nominated investigation and two class-action lawsuits would eventually demystify Humana’s wanton gaslighting by revealing the shocking truth behind their inhumane decisions.

Weeks before his mom’s stroke, White independently published The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery, detailing how his wife, Edie, discovered her biological family in 2018. Before the tenured cynic penned a hopeful book, Jeremy and Edie founded the award-winning satirical publication Red Shtick Magazine, as well as its digital progeny, The Red Shtick, which served as an $800 clue in the 2022 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

White Lines Press will publish InHumana: An American Healthcare Story as a 172-page paperback, ebook, and audiobook on October 7. All three versions are available for presale through a host of booksellers, including a growing number of partnered independent bookstores across the country, all listed and mapped at InHumanaBook.com. For more information and resources, visit our media center. Inquiries should be emailed to media [at] redstickcomedy [dot] com.

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