Progressive lawmakers say the reaction to the UHC CEO killing is a 'wake-up call'
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Source: Yahoo! News/Business Insider
Updated Wed, December 11, 2024 at 8:10 PM EST
In the wake of the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, lawmakers are weighing in on the crime and the reaction to it, including expressions of frustration many Americans feel toward the healthcare system.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told Business Insider on Wednesday that the rapturous online response to the shooting and the valorization by some of the suspect, Luigi Mangione, was indicative of a "mass bubbling of resentment around the precarity that people have been living with."
"Of course, we don't want to see the chaos that vigilantism presents," said Ocasio-Cortez. "We also don't want to see the extreme suffering that millions of Americans confront when your life changes overnight from a horrific diagnosis, and people are led to just some of the worst, not just health events, but the worst financial events of their and their family's lives." She added, "I think for people who are surprised, it's a wake-up call for how much of this exists in our society."
Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida, who began his political career as a gun violence prevention activist, told BI that he's "against gun violence in all forms," but that he understood some of the reaction. "There's so much animosity and hatred of this system that people are looking beyond maybe their typical moral scope to meme this guy, or to praise him, because the issue is just so pervasive," he said. "That's something to take note of."
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Omnipresent
(6,697 posts)No one condones murder, but this ongoing, decade after decade, greedy system of health care denial gets to be way, way, way too much.
Aussie105
(6,768 posts)Who should take note though?
And do what, exactly?
Do nothing other than lecture people about how violence is NOT the answer?
Disgruntled people should just suck it up?
Health insurance companies should get more 'with it'?
Law makers should step in and get the bean counters' profit motive out of the system?
So far we have lots of lecturing but no suggestions how to improve the situation.
I can paraphrase this:
"How many children must die before effective gun control is enacted?"
TO:
"How many health insurance company CEOs must die before effective remedial action is suggested?"
Both questions elicit the chirping of crickets.
Other countries are watching and updating the list of all the things that are wrong with America.
(Don't TELL us you are a first world country, SHOW US!)