Thoughts on the murder of the United Healthcare CEO
Last week, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the street in New York. As I write this, the killer is still uncaught. Current ish coverage link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/us/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-gunman-search-sunday/index.html A lot of the media has been focusing on how people on social media are not exactly sympathetic to the victim, with many people having mixed feelings, and some clearly supporting the killing. In general, wealthy CEO's of large companies are viewed with a certain amount of disdain, and health insurance companies are generally perceived as evil. In this case, the intersection of both makes it easy for people to rationalize this murder as a "good thing", and sympathize with the killer. I have thoughts, which are somewhat more nuanced. The problems with the current health insurance industry in the US have been around for a while, but were sorta amplified by Obamacare (aka the very disingenuously named "Affordable Care Act",...