Major media outlets are giving wall-to-wall coverage to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder while taking millions in health care industry advertising. They’re silent about the real story: how profit-driven health care kills 68,000 Americans every year.
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    7·
    14 days ago

    “There’ll be a lot of hand-wringing over whether or not [Thomson’s assassination] was justified,” Miles Gray said recently on The Daily Zeitgeist podcast. “[But] the real issue is that we have completely normalized and we celebrate this system of squeezing profits out of people to the point of financial and emotional bankruptcy. The real discussion needs to be around whether or not our greed-based system of care is justified.”

    In the USA?

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
    21·
    13 days ago

    Jacobin, as the press, should probably have followed this thought to its conclusion, given people are shooting those complicit in healthcare deaths and Ted K types by definition blame leftists for the sins of the right.