I think non-Americans need to calm down on the ‘respect the dead health insurance CEO’ policing of Americans who are forced to live in a system where they have to pay for healthcare.
Like there’s always going to be a bit of a “Violence is never the answer” throwaway line, but that’s not really true, is it?
Very fun that people think I’m writing this as an American citizen.
As if its not just a universal truth that when you push people past the point of sheer desperation that they then think they have nothing to lose and start hitting back however they see fit.
I’m going to call it now: When they catch the shooter (and they eventually will; he shot a very rich person) it’ll turn out that his wife or child (or both) died because UHC denied care…but then billed him a zillion dollars anyway.
This is easy to predict because it’s their entire business model and they have an army of lawyers and lobbyists to make sure they’re never, ever held accountable for it. So the guy fell back on the only thing America can’t give up: Cheap and easy access to guns.
And we’re going to see copycats.
This is in fact so predictable that we had an entire long-range (5 seasons, plus a spinoff with three seasons) where one of the main characters is driven to crime BECAUSE he was an exec at a major insurance company and they denied coverage for his son, who had cancer. It’s called Leverage.
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