Summary
Progressive lawmakers view the online praise for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a sign of deep public frustration with the U.S. healthcare system.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it a “wake-up call” highlighting resentment over financial and health precarity, while Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasized that anger reflects the belief that healthcare is a human right.
Though all lawmakers condemned the murder, some progressives argue it underscores systemic issues like claim denials.
Calls for healthcare reform have intensified amid public outrage.
Calling for anything less than universal healthcare and the abolition of private, for-profit insurers means they still side with them.
There isn’t any quagmire, we’re the only “developed nation” that chooses not to have universal healthcare coverage in some form.
We choose not to solely because there’s a booming industry profiting off selling us a fake guarantee of care, a con, and then killing us instead and keeping the premiums we paid them, score, and that industry pays politicians to be against it.
You show me a politician against universal healthcare, and I’ll show you someone who either took the money, or a coward legislating by path of least resistance.