Assassins.
1/1/2025, 2 pages
Trigger warning.
Violent murder is shocking.
This post is going to be about the healthcare CEO that was assassinated and his assassin.
I’m surprised that a song about an assassin that I stumbled onto could cover what’s taking place in our nation so well. Here’s a sample of the changed lyrics the musician Martin Kerr did to the song Delilah. “Profits over people is their game. They have no shame. … but they’ve already replaced him and the kids will keep on dying just the same.” To me he’s singing about the futility of assassinating a CEO or really any leader.
Give it a listen. Let me know what you think.
It’s that “but they’ve already replaced him” phrase that has the impact. It’s why I believe that violence isn’t going to resolve issues as a general rule. There’s a replacement waiting in the wings. Had Trump been assassinated he would have been the martyr and a long line of MAGA fascist replacements are waiting in the wings.
Their bench is deep.
Up close and personal.
The way the murder took place is dramatic. The CEO was shot at close range from the back. The guy probably never knew what hit him. There’s video available of the murder. It’s all the more shocking because we can watch it. His family can see it. Because it was a CEO there are plenty of headlines already with more to come as his assassin moves through the judicial system.
The assassination brought to the forefront the problems that we have with the healthcare system we have in the United States. People are upset because of the support that the assassin is receiving and that he is being portrayed as a martyr by some. But the focus will remain on the assassination. That’s where the headlines are.
It was up close and personal.
Numbers and words.
All the thousands of people that are dying, being injured, being devastated financially, living with pain that are being killed with deny, delay, defend. The assassins bullets had deny, delay, depose written on them. Words are written on paper or electronically when insurance companies deny claims, medications, services, procedures, doctors, tests, rehabilitation, life saving measures whose end results are just as deadly. Their names won’t make the headlines except perhaps as a number representing something.
Young women are dying today because of a MAGA law that denies pregnant women lifesaving medical procedures provided by MAGA government. Desperate women will die from botched abortions thanks to MAGA government.
Medical expenses also account for over 66% bankruptcies in the United States. That’s two thirds people. (Are numbers or words more dramatic?) Thank MAGA Republicans for that. BTW that’s over a half million people a year. That’s families and individuals having their lives upended and, in some cases, destroyed. Numbers and words. Numbers and words.
Here are some more numbers.
Insurance companies deny from 17% to as much as 80% of all claims. Using Artificial Intelligence has made electronic bulk denials even easier for companies. Meanwhile people die waiting for medical issues to be approved or not being able to afford a procedure or medication. Crap! 45,000 people a year die from the lack of having insurance. Thanks again MAGA Republican government.
With all this medical expense going on you might think that the wealthiest nation in the world would have a long life expectancy. Noooo sirrreeeee Bobby. We’re number 48. Thanks anti-science MAGA. Good job killing men, women and children. (BTW I’ve already passed by my expiry date.)
Remember the movie, Erin Brockovich? It was about her suing and winning against the utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company for polluting ground water that was killing people and causing all sorts of illnesses. The movie takes place in the 60s.
Remember exploding Pintos back in the 70s? Cars not horses. The Ford company knew that they had a problem with the gas tanks that $11 would fix. The company executives decided that fixing the problem would cut into profits and that the cost of any lawsuits would be less than what the repairs would cost. They put profit before people’s lives.
To many, if not all, big healthcare corporations humans are just numbers on pages. There aren’t any graphic videos of people dying from being denied healthcare. Nothing so up close and personal as being shot at point blank range. Just death. Death in hospital room. Death at home.
During the 9/11/01 terrorist attack Boeing executives made the decision to start laying people off before the Twin Towers had even fallen and people were still jumping off the buildings. Suits call that forward thinking. I call it cold-blooded.
Back in the 60s the Cuyahoga River that feeds into Lake Erie was so polluted that it caught fire. That wasn’t the first time either. Cleaning up all of the toxic pollution everywhere is an ongoing problem all over the country. All this pollution kills people. Lots of men, women and children.
What does that have to do with the healthcare CEO that was assassinated and his assassin? It’s going to take the actions by the government to sort things out. The government is going to have to see to it that we have universal healthcare. The government is going to have to cut the profiteers out of the equation. Affordable healthcare should be treated as a basic human right.
That’s pro-life.
NOTES
Martin Kerr song about the assassin, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OqiVZgKTWOo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_(film)
https://spendmenot.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics/
https://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/dying-from-lack-of-insurance/
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