MedCity News December 5, 2024
Brian Thompson’s murder was chilling, but the social media response of this tragedy was equally shocking, if eye-opening. It shows a massive collapse of public trust in our healthcare system, a system so broken that it bankrupts families, denies life-saving care, and treats death as an acceptable cost of doing business.
When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel this week, something chilling happened: thousands of Americans responded not with horror, but with dark jokes and scathing comments about the health insurance industry. People shared stories of being denied coverage by the company and drew parallels comparing the CEO’s death to the ways they’ve been mistreated by America’s healthcare system.
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