'Deny, Defend, Depose: They Eat Off Your Family Member's Grave'

"Exposing 'the rotten core of American health care,' the shooting of United Health's CEO/ mafia kingpin sparked a flash flood of long-simmering fury at the 'legalized murder practiced by all the Brian Thompsons' of a universally despised system run by 'heartless vampires' who routinely refuse care in exchange for bloody profit. The pitiless response by tens of millions of their victims: Wanted posters, judging the shooter 'too hot to convict' and grimly declaring, 'Thoughts and prayers are out of network.'"

"Early last Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was en route to an investor conference at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, reportedly to collect his massive Christmas bonus, when he was shot in the back and killed, allegedly by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. The action, both shocking and deeply unsurprising, was widely met with 'a morbid sense of inevitability' from a wrung-dry populace; Elizabeth Warren spoke for many when she asserted, 'Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far.' Citing the brutality of a much-hated, for-profit system run by rapacious executives getting rich by denying (sometimes lifesaving) healthcare to sick people who often subsequently either die or go bankrupt trying not to, Maureen Tkacik of The American Prospect wryly noted, 'Only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO.'"

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