Regarding the UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination:
This story won't go away, so I'm choosing to break my silence on the matter.
I find this old proverb says it best, "Two wrongs don't make a right." It's deplorable to say any murder is justified, even in the sense of capital punishment. Perhaps this is a political issue (in regards to capital punishment) yet, morally speaking, I fail to see how wishing this man's death is in good faith/conscious. This man had a family. His family is experiencing the worst grief imaginable. Certainly most CEOs are morally corrupt in their own right, but I can't imagine how I would feel if millions of people found my family member's murder justified for them simply manning their post.
Now, I also empathize with people who are happy this man was murdered, but not because I agree with their ethics, rather due to the US Healthcare system being so backwards and broken. Desperation leads to devolution.
I recall a story put out by Vice News that followed 2 insulin patients who crossed the boarder (into Mexico) in order to purchase insulin at a fair price. They could get a month's supply $15-20. This, of course, is a federal crime, punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison. How ironic that the same time served as a murder sentence is handed to someone trying to prevent themselves from being murdered by big pharma, medical insurance companies, and our elected policymakers who enable their behaviors.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they're still two wrongs, and, sadly, nothing seems quite right. Shame on the people who glorify murder, as well as the pharmaceutical and insurance companies that sit at the same table to fix prices, and, of course, our policymakers who accept lobbyist money and never act in the interest of the people, even when their action could save lives. Regardless of your political affiliation, please recognize both sides of the aisle share in this accountability; for blue and red both see money as green.
