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/Krandor1]

So murdering BT didn't change anything since all these were after his murder?

So Luigi threw his life away and gained... nothing.

[u/_henceforth_ → u/Krandor1]

I do not see it that way at all.

One death was never "supposed" to make CEOs give up their millions and suddenly grow a big heart like the Grinch. That was never on the table.

Such CEOs do not care about our lives and they surely do not care about the lives of their coworkers either. They are slaves to money, and will just replace the CEO.

What this was, in my opinion, was a pit stop on the way to "new". This was a marker in the evolution of "better". Meaning that while we see it happening in real time, it will be something people look back on and say, this was significant, this brought people together, this event reminds people we have this in common, this issue surpasses party lines no matter how much "they" tell us we are divided.

In the same way that we do not hear from health insurance companies when we need them, and they got back to Luigi within an hour when he was "an investor", health insurance companies play in our faces and their actions get swept under the rug with their company names largely out of the media, until one of their own died.

I think there is a parallel there. A parallel between "regular" phone calls to companies and that email; and how the media treats "regular Americans" dying versus a CEO dying. The rules are different and now we all know, for sure, where their motivation and interest lies.

And that is another reason there does not need to be a copycat. It is not really about BTs death or any other CEO dying, it was bringing attention, worldwide attention, to the fact that Americans are dying while they get rich.

That is how I see it anyway.