Source: Inequality.org
by Sam Pizzigati
“Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s richest nation — still does not have in place a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. … On December 4, a gunman murdered the chief executive of a corporate insurance powerhouse that regularly registers hefty profits denying health help to sick people who desperately need it. That chief exec — UnitedHealthcare’s 50-year-old Brian Thompson — died on a Manhattan sidewalk after a short hail of bullets from a still unidentified assassin. The bullet casings from the shooting carried their own message. They read, according to police sources, ‘deny, defend, and depose,’ a clear reference to the profit-first gameplan America’s giant insurers ever so relentlessly follow: deny the claim, defend the lawsuit, depose the patient.” (12/09/24)
https://inequality.org/great-divide/a-murder-on-the-streets-has-fear-rising-in-the-suites/