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What can we learn from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson?

Last Updated: 27.06.2025 01:56

What can we learn from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson?

Health insurance only works on a scale of mass solidarity. If insurance is segmented in a competitive market then companies will seek to cut costs, for example, they won’t want to insure people with preexisting conditions or only up to a certain amount. A lot like veterinary insurance for people.

These profits don’t go back into the system but to anonymous shareholders, who buy shares on international financial markets, and billionaires keep their wealth in tax havens like the Cayman islands, etc.

It’s not difficult to imagine a motivation. The trauma of grief from losing a loved one who was denied care, or a family pouring their hard earned financial security into paying overwhelming medical costs, these collective experiences are the real solidarity in this system.

If I get served by someone else's papers, am I legally required to inform the person that they got served, or the court that they served the wrong person?

Money goes up..

If poor people can’t afford insurance then insurance overall becomes more expensive. Less people = less money flowing into the system.

The commercial - profit seeking power of doctors - who need to pay a lot in legal fees, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals in America is enormous.

Now that Nigel has imploded his centre right U.K. Reform Party, in a fit of capricious impulse, do we have a credible alternative other than the RIGHT WING Rupert Lowe M.P. to save the impoverished British from the multicultural `benefits hugging`?