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Please tell me why this guy is your hero? I really do not understand why he's in that position after a murder. He even shot him in the back, cowardly so. You want to make a point, write a letter. Killing of a human being is not something that should be used to protest a bad decision on your health care ffs. Are you saying this is the way we should deal with matters like this?
ah yes, writing a letter. just like the millions of people that UHC ~~murdered~~ wrote letters to.
UHC and many other health insurance companies in the US will and do let people die in order to keep profits. Brian Thompson was complicit in this process. His murder is fully justified.
I don't want a future where murder and violence is the only way to bring issues to light, but when governments, regulations, and other protections fail us, people get desperate. They are left with no other choice.
I admit I'm not aware of the problems in the US specifically related to insurance claims being refused. Links to actual cases would be nice. It's just that where are we going to stop? A gate has been opened and now maybe someone is plotting to execute some oil exec. because of the price of gasoline, or the price of food, high taxes... it kind of creeps me out that many people arrive to your conclusion in todays society; where we expect to be safe from exactly that sort of thing.
Oh there is a very good chance that most oil and food execs have done MUCH more evil than just overcharging.
Execs for either have a pretty good chance of being responsible for mass death and disease. Their victims might just not be in Western, 1st world countries.