US Healthcare CEO Murdered - Please read mod note at OP

Tragedy for the estranged wife and kids and wider family yes, no question, but also a blow for the common man against the elite.

Whether it achieves anything, other than a few data centres of speculation etc, is debatable, but he needed to start somewhere.

Am not condoning it but I can relate to it, especially after formative years of bullying and physical violence in school, with no redress at that time.. but I did balance the books somewhat over the years, have one more score to settle.

Much of the hand wringing here is by folk who have no idea what its like to be at the coal face of this sort of stuff.

this is literally the definition of condoning murder.

I’m absolutely baffled as to how being bullied in school is the same as the US heath insurance model.

Balancing the books can mean outgrowing a trauma.

You're projecting a meaning onto it.

As a rich kid i would say it is likely he is not affected by health insurance industry. Not like lthe plebs suffering from medical bankruptcy. To throw your life away like the killer has you do have to be looney but he has shown how hated that huge company is and brought to light some of their dirty practices

Just because one of the suspects is killed doesn't mean the case is dropped for all. Like many famous assassinations in america it just shows how hard it is to protect famous people from lone wolf attacks.

It appears they have their man. Only question is how he knew where brian Thompson was staying. There is no evidence yet that there is any greater conspiracy involved.

Ya,I can think of loads of ways off the top of my head. Could just have called and said he had an appointment to meet him at his hotel but had forgotten the hotel.

What makes sense. Quite clever.

No I’m saying it’s a false problem. He’s been made into a folk hero in the media because enough people decided that’s how they wanted to see him/portray him. No money needed.

If the American people really wanted their healthcare system to change there’d be similar numbers of posts and mainstream media articles and as many enraged responses to all the tragic personal experiences that various people have had.

Instead like gun violence there’s little interest most of the time. But lots of people ready to jump on the bandwagon of calling a murdered CEO “scum” and a worm (and oddly, nobody has been sanctioned for that, unlike my ban for being rude about President Higgins).

So it seems like people are mainly thrilled at the idea of getting one over on Da Man, rather than in effecting social change. Shockingly that includes Irish posters who have no skin in the game but are still eager to express delight at the murder of a man, apparently just because he was too successful for their liking.