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The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting
A cold-blooded murder has become, to many, an opportunity to vent.
nymag.com
After her mother was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer, Anna watched for years as she fought both the illness and the health-care system until her death in 2020. “The fight with the insurance companies was, in many ways, worse than cancer,” Anna says. “It took over my entire family’s life.”
She recalls her mother’s time-consuming struggles to get new treatments approved. “It was just so maddening to know they were shaving years off my mom’s life because of the paperwork,” she says.
So on Wednesday morning when she heard the news that UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in Manhattan, she had a perverse reaction.
“I am ashamed to admit it, but there was a little surge of Schadenfreude,” says Anna, who, like several others in this story, asked to use a pseudonym to protect her privacy.
She was far from alone. Across the internet and on social media, countless people expressed grim satisfaction or even glee at the murder of 50-year-old Thompson, who is survived by a wife and two sons. Authorities say he was killed in a targeted attack and, days after the incident, the unidentified gunman is still at large. Bullet casings recovered by police were inscribed with the words deny, defend, and depose, apparent references to how insurance companies deal with patient claims.
But what does the article leave out? In fact, what did the shooter fail to consider as well as all the groupie fans of the shooter?
Medicaid and Medicare combined, all run by the government, denied health care claims that matched those of United Health care. as they denied close to 16 million claims, yet no one cries about this? Why? No one is picking up a gun to go after the people that run those institutions, nor are they picking up guns to go after the politicians that put them there and set policy for them. Why?
The answer is simple, the Legacy media, as well as academia, have essentially turned people against private health care in favor of government run health care, on the premise that these private health care companies are killing people for money by denying them health care, while government is their savior. This causes people like the shooter that killed the CEO health care executive, to assassinate these individuals with righteous indignation, much like the shooter felt who tried to assassinated Trump. Why did he try to assassinate Trump? It is because he was told by Legacy media and the democrat party that Trump was Hitler.
Who does not want to assassinate Hitler? I think most everyone would, thinking they are saving millions of lives in the process. It is so bad, 1 in 3 democrats polled said they were sorry Trump was not assassinated, and I'm sure the same number are cheering the assassination of the health care CEO as well, if not more.
I have been appalled by the news coverage as I see reporter after reporter saying, "People can only be pushed so far.........." so as to help justify the event, prompting more to act.
Yet as we see with government run health care, if the government takes it over, which is the only other alternative, pretty much just as many people will have their claims turned down. In addition, once government takes over health care completely, they can turn down more claims on a whim, because when it comes to government entitlements, they owe you nothing as they can turn you down for anything. In fact, if government run health care is so wonderful, why are people coming to the US for health care from places like Canada and Europe?
