US Healthcare CEO Murdered - Please read mod note at OP

It's nothing to a multimillionaire, it's not "nothing" to lots of people who aren't millionaires.

Well how can we know? Why would you assume either way?

I've lived in the country for over a decade, still here, almost every person I know would be happy to pay more tax for socialized healthcare.

It is not the choice of the people.

Its also why one might see violence, the very purpose of democracy is change without violence, to allow people to feel like they have at least minimal power.

Yes.

In general democracy in America is a bit of a show.

You have no federal referendums

Citizens United allowing unlimited corporate political donations

No safeguards on social media and political advertising

News like TV shows pushing propaganda in the guise of news

No ranked choice voting which reenforces a two party system.

So imagine you are a voter who wants universal healthcare but you dislike all other Democrat policies for example, what exactly do you do?

Same for gun control, abortion, immigration, environmental conservation etc. you will find Dems and cons on both sides of all of these topics but the system doesn't allow an expression on these individual huge topics. America isn't really that democratic. Not really "for the people"

While not approving of a murder, seeing the online comments and the amount of people denied health care, loopholes and clauses in insurance packages, you can really see why some people are venting the way they are.

Where does it end?? Would you like to see Simon Harris/Stephen Donnolly murdered? Both were health ministers in Ireland when lots of people died due to lack of services etc. Harris was involved in the cervical cancer scandal. Mental health CEOs murdered due to the massive amount of yearly suicides? McDonald's/other fast food franchise owners because of the obesity epidemic??

Yeah it's basically why you have unlimited growth. You also brain drain the rest of the world because of the riches on offer but socially it's a disaster. Not all people are college educated engineers between 20-50!

Quite the strawman you've built there, right at the top of the floodgates at the bottom of the slippery slope.

Thompson's murder isn't surprising in the context of US gun use, lack of democracy, rampant, unchecked capitalism and a massively polarised and violent political culture. It's utterly futile to compare Ireland to the US.

Having to go to a hospital in Europe won't bankrupt you, so it's hard to understand a system where needing life saving care will bankrupt you.

There's simply no comparison. It's not like the victim was a medic targeted by a conspiracy nutjob. From the pieces we understand like the bullet casings it seems an action very much motivated by the financial iniquities of US healthcare.

Plus as the US ages more claims will be denied purely to maintain profit, as healthcare in the US is not a public service, it's a private business.

It's what people want over there. They may say they want universal health care, but they never vote in majority of politicians that actually want to deliver it.*

Rather like their schizophrenic attitude to gun control.

And the idea that people in America are oppressed and can't do anything about their politicians if they actually had the will to, frankly is laughable.

The most plausible explanation I can find is that they want great healthcare for themselves, but are determined not to let any other Tom, Dick or Harry have it because they others don't actually deserve it, whereas they do.

The people I saw (on TV) queuing up for charitable healthcare mostly seemed to take the view that while they were currently in a difficult situation, they would no doubt get out of it at some point because they were hardworking and deserving, and you couldn't be having free healthcare for all because all the rest of the country were chancers who would never work if they weren't forced to.

On the same day that this guy was executed another health insurance company, Blue Cross announced that in three states they would no longer be providing for the cost of anesthesia for surgeries that went beyond certain durations. I saw a lot of people split screening that news with the news of the execution of this CEO.

Anyway, a few days later Blue Cross announced they were reversing this policy.

It is possible that the reversal had nothing to do with this murder. It is also possible that the members of the board had second thoughts about pushing the limits of profiteering at all costs after seeing this news.