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What can we learn from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson?

Last Updated: 23.06.2025 06:11

What can we learn from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson?

If poor people can’t afford insurance then insurance overall becomes more expensive. Less people = less money flowing into the system.

These profits don’t go back into the system but to anonymous shareholders, who buy shares on international financial markets, and billionaires keep their wealth in tax havens like the Cayman islands, etc.

Money goes up..

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The commercial - profit seeking power of doctors - who need to pay a lot in legal fees, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals in America is enormous.

It’s not difficult to imagine a motivation. The trauma of grief from losing a loved one who was denied care, or a family pouring their hard earned financial security into paying overwhelming medical costs, these collective experiences are the real solidarity in this system.

Health insurance only works on a scale of mass solidarity. If insurance is segmented in a competitive market then companies will seek to cut costs, for example, they won’t want to insure people with preexisting conditions or only up to a certain amount. A lot like veterinary insurance for people.

Should I have left it alone and kept quiet? I came out as gay to my adult kids last week. Age 61 married 15 years, divorced for 20. I feel so guilty for ruining their lives by living a lie.