The murder of United Health Executive, Brian Thompson on a NYC street in broad daylight continues to reverberate across the USA. Physicians, hospital staff, patients, and insurance companies themselves are reeling. And the politicians: getting ready for the upcoming transition that will reshape life in America.
Evidently, they see their respective roles as caretakers of the nation, not just health care or health insurance. Of course, they have a separate health care system unavailable to us peasants. We are required to joust with the agents/coders/deniers, capitalists. Corporate medicine at its finest= bad medicine. Canada's system has issues, but it works for the 12+ millions of Canadians.
Now a suspect is in custody after his arrest in Altoona, PA. Luigi Mangione, son of a very wealthy family, is going to fight extradition to New York. He is a highly educated graduate of U. of Pennsylvania in computer science. His whereabouts before the incident reveal that he was on the move, spending time in San Francisco and Hawaii. His mother had filed a missing persons report with the SFPD. It is known from friends and acquaintances that he's had recent health problems which restricted some activities. There's no known connection to United Health Corp. Insurance. Internet postings indicate certain sentiments about health insurance. Authorities found a "ghost gun" in a bag believed to be his.
So, here we have an other disgruntled young man who is accused of murder. It seems that his information about the world has come from the internet, the source of increasing amounts of fake news and conspiracies. Governments are slow to respond to this problem, waiting and hoping it becomes a non-issue. Yeh, right.
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