© Channel2nowMurder victim UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Last week, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was
shot to death on a New York City sidewalk in what was clearly a thoroughly planned-out attack. Over the next few days, as authorities hunted for the killer, online progressives
did not try hard to hide their delight that a millionaire health insurance executive like Thompson was killed.
Social media was flooded with posts and videos — with different ranges of subtlety —
suggesting that Thompson, at the very least, did not deserve to be mourned because of all the health care his company has denied to poor and working people. Progressives framed the shooting as an act of self-defense on behalf of the working class. Before the alleged killer was
caught Monday, they promised not to snitch if they saw the shooter themselves and fantasized about a working-class jury nullifying all charges,
leading to other CEOs getting gunned down with impunity if they oversaw price increases.
The narrative that these online progressives clearly subscribe to and perpetuate is one where, in the United States, healthcare is a totally unfettered, unregulated industry; where — because of a total lack of government involvement —
wealthy CEOs charge whatever prices they want and then refuse to provide customers what they already paid for without facing any bad consequences.
The characterization of healthcare and health insurance companies charging absurdly high prices while treating their customers terribly without the risk of losing them is spot on.
Comment: People should be looking at what was being done at American biolabs, such as the one at Fort Detrick: