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Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?
« on: December 13, 2024, 10:56:09 am »

Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?

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By Maria Aspan
December 12, 2024

The fury over the state of U.S. health care isn't going away.

It's been a week since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan. That shocking, targeted killing has also sparked a reckoning over the business he ran, in a country that has the most expensive health care in the world.

Thompson led the largest U.S. health insurer, part of a massive, for-profit conglomerate that touches almost every part of how Americans access health care. His company has been widely criticized for making health care more expensive and more difficult to access. And those frustrations have boiled over in the response to his death, ranging from widespread jokes to outright celebrations.

UnitedHealth has not directly responded to the widespread consumer criticisms since last week; a spokesperson for UnitedHealth declined to comment to NPR for this story.

This week, after police arrested Luigi Mangione for the fatal shooting, some even rushed to support him. An online fundraiser for Mangione's legal defense had raised more than $65,000 by Thursday evening. Meanwhile, social-media videos showed "wanted" posters for other CEOs posted in downtown Manhattan.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5224157/health-care-occupy-wall-street-moment
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You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists

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Re: Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2024, 11:01:16 am »
No, but if Executives and Legislatures don't get their act together, more desperate or insane people will commit acts of violence on the belief that the American system is not working and is incapable of working.

If legal and electoral Populism can't effect change, people will take matters into their own hands.
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Re: Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2024, 05:49:40 pm »
Saw "npr" in the link.
Read no further.
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Re: Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2024, 06:19:45 pm »
I saw a good way this debate was framed on Youtube, the real problem is that we don't use insurance like insurance, we use it as a catch all to pay for all things under the sun, rather than as a way to alleviate risk, which was originally intended.
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