“In New York, “Wanted” posters with the faces of CEOs have appeared on walls. Websites are selling Mangione merchandise, including hats with “CEO Hunter” printed across a bull’s-eye. And some social media users have swooned over his smile and six-pack abs.”
There certainly appears to be a large number of NYC’s population who need professional help.
JWK
The Democrat Party Leadership has turned NYC into a crime, garbage, rat and illegal alien infestation.
Indeed it is but I don’t think it’s just limited to NYC as there are a lot of sicko’s out there. Then of course there is the disgusting Alvin Bragg and if he gets a whiff there is some woke/leftist support for this killer, he may not press charges.
Poetic justice would be street justice visiting Alvin Bragg. He has destroyed many lives by refusing to lock up criminals, leaving them free to pray upon honest, law-abiding NYC, citizens.
Don’t take this as a glowing endorsement of the shooter.
But in many ways I think it’s healthy for insurance companies to be reminded that there are real lives on the other end of their policies. Put the human element back in their equation.
I doubt if many people would disagree with that. But here we are talking about the un-American and hateful racist Black Lives Matter lunatic types who populate NYC, and that includes Alvin Bragg.
What he did was objectively wrong, but I will say how everyone reacts to this is fascinating. Health care insurance companies destroy thousands of lives every year, with people either dying or having their entire financial livelihood completely obliterated from denied claims. So one CEO gets offed because this dude was clearly angry. The first situation I just mentioned isn’t really talked about, even though its a form of violence too and the perpetrators are never held accountable by society.
The idea that insurance or even a doctor is the difference between life and death is very misguided and wrong. They may be able to help and that is all. Nobody gets out of here alive.
The troubling (to me) reaction is certainly a wake-up call. I hope the right people in the insurance companies take notice.
In a sicker way it’s like what Bud Light marketing learned with Dylan Mulvaney. Nobody died in that one, but the blowback changed Bud Lite marketers (and others) in their tracks.
This time it’s a tragic event, and the surprising reaction out there should be a statement to the insurance companies. (And not just life insurance! Maybe it will flow over to homeowners insurance, where lots of people ended up getting hurricane claims denied. And we have a whole ambulance-chasing legal industry in response to claim denial for car accidents.)
Of course, to honor more claims, we should expect premiums to rise.
I see a lot of people pointing fingers at the insurance industry and granted I agree that they definitely share part of the blame, however; I am old enough to remember what health insurance was like before Obamacare and Obama decided to stick his nose in and force people who neither wanted insurance nor needed health insurance to get it through his obamacare web page.
Once the government decided to impose a minimum coverage requirement upon the industry then guess what? The minimum is all you are going to get.
That and obamacare also instituted the office of review which has become the office of denial.
So the state of our health insurance industry is due partially to insurance companies seeking bigger profits but I believe the bulk of blame for the state of the insurance industry falls directly at the feet of government interference.
There is my 2 cents.
One other thing. Regardless of the problems in the health insurance industry there still is absolutely no justification for the murder of another person.
Yes, I met a doctor who quit after Obama care because he was basically an employee now with lots of paper work. And you can’t actually practice the 'art of medicine".
