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A healthcare CEO was just murdered and the killer is considered a hero. Many are even referring to the dead CEO as a serial killer because of all the preventab
by OnlineGladiator 2y ago
A healthcare CEO was just murdered and the killer is considered a hero. Many are even referring to the dead CEO as a serial killer because of all the preventable deaths he profited from. You're not paying attention if you think people aren't already introspective about healthcare in this country.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoThe killing could have happened to nearly any CEO and the response would be similar. The issue is of wealth inequality, not strictly healthcare, though it certainly exacerbated the response in this particular case. See the social media response to titan submersible deaths.
- tokioyoyo 2y agoPeople say a lot of things, but given there's no action, it's just... words. It's weird for me to say this, as I consider myself a general optimist. But when it comes to navigating layered political structures that involves trillions of dollars, it's hard to believe that anything of significance will be done.
- int_19h 2y agoThe assassination itself is one hell of an action, though. Also, police has already said that they are concerned about the lack of cooperation from the public at large when it comes to success of the manhunt. The people who usually jump onto that kind of stuff are explicitly disengaging. You can argue that this all does nothing wrt navigating the politics that would actually lead to change. But I think that, at the minimum, it creates some incentive for the people who work with those structures on a day to day basis to do so. If CEOs of healthcare companies are now a socially approved assassination target, apparently, what does it say about healthcare lobbyists?