Summary
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has reignited debates over the U.S. healthcare system, with Americans sharing stories of denial, delays, and exorbitant costs despite having insurance.
Many report fighting insurers for coverage of essential treatments, facing hidden costs, and taking drastic steps like career changes to secure health insurance.
Critics blame corporate greed for worsening access and affordability, while others note the system’s complexity discourages seeking care.
Though some find employer-provided plans satisfactory, the overall system is described as profit-driven and increasingly inaccessible, leaving many financially strained or avoiding medical help altogether.
Let’s be honest. Agree with it or not, it is difficult to argue against the effectiveness of that assassination. Three bullets have brought true discussion about the cluster fuck that is American healthcare further than over a decade of Bernie screaming about it every chance he got. Will something come of it? We shall see.
Discussion doesn’t help much when everything is controlled by the billionaires. To be honest I don’t think anything will, corruption in the system has gone way too deep.
Damn, I expected your account to have been created in the last month.
The OG guerilla marketing tactic…
If anything tangible and lasting actually does come of it you might be right, but so far the “discussion” seems to center around either cheering for Mangione or raging against him, intellectualizing about morality, louder unfocused wealth hatred, and tons of overgeneralized memes. We’ve had anecdotal reports of more insurance claims being approved, but that’s at corporate whim and can change back any time. Are any Congressional bills in the works? Granted, I’ve mostly been ignoring the news since the fucking election and it’s very possible that I’ve missed something.
Way to prematurely overstate this while shitting on Bernie
They are not necessarily shitting on Bernie, it’s just that the US is at a point where opposition from within the system (Bernie) can safely be ignored by the rich.
The rich need to be reminded, that seeking a compromise with the working class through the system is preferable to the alternative. That it is - in fact - unsafe to ignore that the working class is increasingly fed up with a system that always screws them over.
The language “he has been screaming about…” seems pretty critical and dismissive typically.
That’s your own interpretation…
And yours is that it was flattering to Bernie (or anyone else) to claim they “scream” about [vague concept]?
See, that’s what I’m saying - you assign a negative connotation to “scream”. Why do you think that is?
Because not only have I seen that used by conservatives trying to discredit Bernie, I’ve seen it used by everyone to discredit anyone they disagree with. It seems like you’re saying connotations are an individual problem that billions of us need to just get over. I don’t agree, they are a standard part of human communication that need to be considered.