I hope he gets away. If only because the resources wasted on this murder investigation are a waste of taxpayer money. After all the other 100 NYC murders every year don’t get any resources. Why should this ordinary citizen?
My feeling is this isn’t just about healthcare. It’s bigger than that. Sure, people have zero sympathy for United Healthcare given high denial rates, likely illegal AI based denials, the breach of subsidiary Change Healthcare where they leaked everyone’s private medical details, the insider trading from the murdered CEO, etc.
But some of these issues aren’t health specific. Like the CEO’s insider trading - wealthy people often get away with financial crimes. And the context of the insider trading is that they were under antitrust investigation from the DOJ but didn’t reveal it to shareholders for months. And before they let the public know these executives sold their shares at a higher price. But the antitrust issue is one of big companies being safe from competition solely due to their size. And now we see massive amounts of resources spent on investigating this single murder when thousands across the country every year get no investigation.
All this highlights a massive unified appetite (across the political spectrum) to create a fair system for everyone, to bring megacorps under control, to treat different citizens equally. And that’s bigger than healthcare.
If you are a CEO who is making money on torturing and killing its customers by denying them what they prepaid for, it is going to make you a lot of enemies. Absolute majority won't harm you, but will cheer up that one person who will.
> I am rather amazed by the how the general public is supporting the gunman.
I'm more surprised by the number of people phoning in tips and helping the police by trying to play internet sleuth.
I also hope that this event results in changes, but I think it would take a lot more than one killing. So far, instead of stopping the killing of people for profit, companies have decided that the best way to protect themselves from their victims is by removing photos of their CEOs from websites and increasing security.
You cannot have a conversation when you're trying to get rid of or reform a system worth $14,500,000,000,000 and the people through whose hands those fourteen trillion five hundred billion dollars are passing skim a bit off the top to buy off (sorry, "support") politicians.
The only option is Medicare for All, with decades of it slowly chipping away at private insurance and surviving endless challenges by the combined might of the insurance, pharmaceutical, banking, private equity, and medical device manufacturer industries who are willing to spend trillions of dollars and fight endlessly to protect their revenue streams-- so that's a long shot, to say the least.
edit: also, all of the people running the industries with which we need to have "a conversation" are narcissists and/or sociopaths who would kill, dehydrate, and grind up the general public for resale to the masses as protein powder if they could get away with it.
I keep telling people to support/join the PNHP. They're working in the struggle to move healthcare in a more affordable direction by educating docs, med students, and legislators.
The PNHP is like the ACLU or EFF but for healthcare.
