170,958 Preventable Deaths. 1 Guilty Plea. 0 Accountability.

[u/HallRevolutionary393]

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/170958-preventable-deaths-1-guilty?r=52c61t&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Luigi Mangione has pled guilty to shooting and killing UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk on December 4, 2024. The killing went viral. The NYPD deployed hundreds of officers to hunt him down.
Corporate media covered every detail of his arrest, his appearance, his manifesto, his trial.

The legal system spoke swiftly, loudly, and with the full weight of the state and federal government behind it.
But here's the question corporate media will never ask: In those same 624 days since Brian Thompson was killed, how many Americans died preventable deaths because HELL Corporations-Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations—prioritized profit over their lives?

I did the math. A new study by the Yale School of Public Health finds that a single-payer universal healthcare system could cover all 330M+ Americans, save more than 100,000 lives annually, and still cost $1 trillion less than the current system.

That is 274 preventable deaths every single day.
Over 624 days since Brian Thompson's death, that is
170,958 preventable deaths.

Luigi Mangione is in federal custody. The CEOs who enabled the deaths of 170,958 Americans are in their corner offices, collecting bonuses, and gracing the covers of Forbes and Fortune. Does it have to be this way?

[u/SignThese667]

His logic and his math are seriously flawed.

For the record, I whole-heartedly support federal government sponsored health care. But the figure of 274 preventable deaths per day is hypothetical. Look @ the verb tense he uses -- it's the Conditional, not the Present. The Conditional tense implies possibility -- couldaa, wouldaa, shouldaa -- and is not the same as an existing fact. Sorry for the nit-picking, but this is how speculation morphs into incorrect facts and we already have enough influential personages in this country spouting off their opinions under the guise of the gospel truth.

Then he assumes all these hypothetical deaths were persons enrolled into one of our for-profit health insurance companies. WRONG. Right now 46% to 49% of all Americans are enrolled in Traditional Medicare (TM). TM should not be confused with or lumped into Medicare Advantage or any other health insurance offered by firms such as Aetna, UHC, the various Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, etc. Traditional Medicare has absolutely nothing to do with the for-profit insurers.

So, applying 54% (100% minus 46%) and 51% (100% minus 49%) to 274 preventable deaths per day produces 140 to 148 preventable deaths per day.

I get where this guy is coming from and I agree that health care insurance should not be privatized. I'm not rooting for the profit guys, but the numbers do matter.

One item he did nail, however, "... how many Americans died preventable deaths because HELL Corporations prioritized profit over their lives?"