Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if more of these health insurance CEOs got blasted. You deny the wrong cancer/terminally ill patient and they’ve got nothing to lose by seeking justice through violence.
I’m surprised it took this long
Being sick or being a caretaker for someone who’s sick tends to rob people of the kind of energy and time required to organize an assassination plot
That is very true.
“Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” Warren added. “This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”
Violence is the answer people give when the people asking the questions systematically ignore the correct answer for a literal generation.
Violence is the language of the unheard.
Also, a couple points of order:
- Insurers are categorically not “providing healthcare”. They’re fucking profiteering middlemen making hay in a domain with inelastic, concrete, largely non-deferrable demand. In the medical industry, “payors” (insurers) are an entirely distinct category of entities from “providers” (doctors).
- it’s not dangerous to everyone. It’s only dangerous to medical insurance C-suites.
I swear, Warren has a deeply frustrating habit of getting things 2/3 right, and then just absolutely mangling crucial parts of the thesis.
In the absence of justice, people will begin to settle for revenge.
Either can come from the government or the community.
Eh, let a couple of em bite the bullet. They will learn
Liz is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
She has done a lot of actual good with her time in office. I’d say she is a wolf and a sheep in superposition. Another take is that she is the best of all the pro-establishment Democrats.
Voting trump as president was the first strike. Supporting a CEO killer was the third strike. Is it going to take a third strike before the people in charge wake the fuck up and realize the bread and circus they’ve been providing just isn’t enough anymore?
What was the second strike?
We elected the person the “people in power” wanted us to elect. Hardly a strike in their eyes.
