US Healthcare CEO Murdered - Please read mod note at OP

There's a "dress like the shooter" competition in Washington Square in NY.

(A raft of American billionaires get gunned down by random assailants)

Next day on CBS/NBC/Fox:

"Today, Congress has voted to repeal the second amendment…"

Could see the personal security industry getting a shot in the arm.

"Family man"

Go away to fuk with this American nonsense. As if having a family makes you less of a cnt.

Wrong to shoot him but his family status has nothing to do with it.

We don't have the same hang ups about the marital status of people the way the US do.

The country is obsessed with the white picket fence nuclear family when it comes to people in positions of power. Even gay politicians have to portray their family person suburban credentials.

Look at the comments towards female politicians with no kids or the difference between the infidelity of Clinton compared to Hollande.

There's more to Ireland than South County Dublin.

We just had an election and nobody talked about anyone's family status.

I actually don't know the family status of any candidate in Limerick and when it comes to our 2 Taoiseach I only know that 1 has a child because he plays football for Cork.

We do not give a sht about family status in Ireland as a measure of a person.

And this along with how many people have lost loved ones due to UHCs despicable actions is why there's at minimum such shrugging of shoulders and in also many cases even glee at what has happened. Nothing ever happens to men like him when found guilty of corporate greed and what many feel is actual murder by a corporation through denying policy claims, all that happens is the company pays a fine that is neglible when compared to their profits. Many simply view what happen as a glimmer of justice, it may be flawed justice but to them it's justice nonetheless.

For anyone saying well it's murder so it can't be justice you are viewing this from an incredibly myopic and likely privileged standing.

Put simply this is tit for tat, or rather tit for a few million tats.

That's what happens when the social contract is so catastrophically broken.

I agree with much of what you say, but I would just point out that consultants are well paid in France, Germany and indeed the UK. Your analysis is correct but the problem is deeper in the system: it's about the private companies providing healthcare for shareholder profits. That includes but is definitely not limited to, some consultants.

It's a problem everywhere, but is totally out of control in the US because there is no large public healthcare system to counterbalance the excesses of the for-profit part, so that insulin, for example, costs multiples of what it costs in the rest of the world.

It's particularly glaring with insulin which is an old drug and one whose inventor did not try to make a fortune from it anyway, believing that it needed to be available for all, but the issue is the same with all medical developments.