US Healthcare CEO Murdered - Please read mod note at OP

Unless there is contagion. But even then slim chance.

Not sure about the 15 mins. Being pissed at healthcare insurers is the one thing that probably unites the US.

I have a friend in the US. Her husband has terminal cancer. She quit her job to be with him. Her healthcare covered him while she was working. She still paid in the high tens of thousands in deductibles in that. The insurance lasted for something like 6 months after she quit. Then it rolled over to medicare. And she had to start filing all the different treatments and stuff with a different group. And the deductibles grew.

He's still alive. He's still terminal. And at the end of it all, he'll die and she'll have to live with the debt. The other option is to refuse life extending and quality of life treatment and die sooner.

They are both IT professionals and had good jobs.

The USA sucks if you're sick. It especially sucks if your poor and sick. The best change they've had is Obamacare. And even under that, it still sucks. And even Obamacare was an effort to get through. And half the country want to get rid of it.

But they all hate insurers. Unless you're filthy rich, getting sick is costly and they have to fight with insurers to get basic treatments paid for. It can cost 18,000 to give birth, and thats WITH insurance.

If anything he'll make it worse. He seems to have the horn for repealing the ACA for no other reason than because Obama brought it in. He'll likely face resistance there though because it's got something like a 60% approval rating so cuts across partisan lines.

If he is found guilty he will be incarcerated for the rest of his life and people will lose interest. Even killers of famous people like the killer of John Lennon only get in the news when their parole is revoked.

Definitely an evil industry but its protected by politicians. Just look at senator Rick Scott over there, a successful senator after defrauding Medicare for years.

Do people actually think Thompson is some kind of poor kid that done good kind of a guy, he got to a top poistion in one of the most toxic, money grabbing, ruthless industries out threre. There is no doubt he was an absolute piece of **** of a man who had blood on his hands. This is why people could not care about him.

I wonder will Mangione fall into obscurity? He's obviously seen as a folk hero by a lot of people. If he can write a book from prison it could be a launching pad for a major campaign against an industry that people there seem to widely believe is rotten.

The chap is nothing but an out and out scumbag to do what he did. He deserves the death penalty, and failing that (not sure Penn) has the death penalty, he deserves 100 years sentence….just to be sure

Its scary that people want to portray this cap as a hero….he's an absolute menace

its new yark lad, it doesnt have the death penalty because its not a backward hole

and anyone calling for the death penalty is just that

what he has been charged doesn't automatically come with a life sentance

the lad he shot was a scumbag

the public reaction isn't wrong

As I said in the other thread, there was no execution in that case. Non whatsoever.

Is that really the right reaction?

He should be tried for his crimes and should see whatever the appropriate sentence is. Bringing the hammer down harder on him just reinforces the idea that justice, like health and pretty much everything else, is only for the rich in the US - and could cause further unrest.

chicago hope, er, US shameless, all dealt with Medical costs inability to get treatment

I'm sure others have

People have already forgotten the CEOs name, but interestingly the trial may become memorable if the killer was motivated by healthcare iniquities.