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Are there worse people than a health insurance company CEO? Yes

A new poll of Americans found that 41 percent of young voters are OK with the cold blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling said:

While 68% of voters overall reject the killer’s actions, younger voters and Democrats are more split — 41% of voters aged 18-29 find the killer’s actions acceptable (24% somewhat acceptable and 17% completely acceptable), while 40% find them unacceptable; 22% of Democrats find them acceptable, while 59% find them unacceptable, this compares to 12% of Republicans and 16% of independents who find the actions acceptable, underscoring shifting societal attitudes among the youngest electorate and within party lines.

It’s no secret that with what some families pay in health insurance, they could be buying the equivalent of a new car every year. But Americans live in a healthcare casino now. You can roll the dice and go without insurance, but you face the possibility of a six or seven figure medical bill. Or you can get insurance, pay the monthly premiums, and still get stuck with a big bill, but maybe only four or five figures.

Honestly, that system is sick and twisted. So someone picked up a gun and shot a health insurance company CEO, to which a surprising percentage of people are nodding in approval. But if we follow the rocket of justifiable homicide to its logical apogee, are an insurance company’s claims adjusters, accountants, and clerks also murderable? After all, they’re all in on the racket, too.

What about hospital executives who come up with inexplicable charges for every procedure and pill? Or Big Pharma companies, whose clients are expected to remain on costly pills for the rest of their lives? Do the employees of processed food companies, and the stores and restaurants that sell their products and contribute to the pestilence pipeline deserve summary execution? Could one also arguably target the politicians and bureaucrats who keep this system of bad foods, bad medicine, costly insurance, and costly healthcare in place?

When does healthcare homicide become unjustifiable?

Something else jumps out at me when looking at the Emerson College polling results seen below:

Less than 50 percent of respondents aged 18-39 were able to say that a person’s cold blooded murder was completely unacceptable. For the 18-29 group, two thirds of respondents said the murder was, at best “somewhat unacceptable,” or at worst, “completely acceptable.”

The American healthcare/insurance borders on evil. Are there worse people than a health insurance company CEO? Yes: the people who cheer the murder of a man because he happens to work in that system.