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[quote=Anonymous]There have been some great articles written over Americans’ reaction to this event.

[quote]On this point, though, everyone’s really in agreement. It’s just a matter of where you locate the decay—in the killing, or in the response to it, or in what led us here. The only way to end up in a situation where a C.E.O. of a health-insurance company is reflexively viewed as a dictatorial purveyor of suffering is through a history of socially sanctioned death. A person who posted on Reddit’s r/nurses forum, whose profile describes her as an I.C.U. nurse, wrote, “Honestly, I’m not wishing anyone harm, but when you’ve spent so much time and made so much money by increasing the suffering of the humanity around you, it’s hard for me to summon empathy that you died. I’m sure someone somewhere is sad about this. I am following his lead of indifference.” Reading this, I thought about the statistic, from 2018, that health-care workers account for seventy-three per cent of all nonfatal workplace injuries due to violence. Nurses, residents, aides, specialists—they are asked to absorb the rage and panic induced by the American health-care system, whose private insurers generate billions of dollars in profit and pay executives eight figures not despite but because of the fact that they routinely deny care to desperate people in need.[/quote]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-america?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_120724&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=605e19465e21076df11f41e5&cndid=64346213&hasha=a31568615a84b1897343c7dc6267fc64&hashb=b31b71f376dc8c5668be73d91056260bbf70ea66&hashc=39161f5e4c382b1a9b18b15861941dd9b7e04ffa8ce1ba3b375ca468f5f21036&esrc=

Our for profit healthcare system is horrible for the average working American.

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