Sharing Responsibility for Health Care Successes and Failures

AJMC December 10, 2024
A. Mark Fendrick, MD

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people—to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.” —William Arthur Ward

Many of us in the health care sector have been devastated by the news of the horrific murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. As we try to comprehend the unjustifiable loss related to this tragedy, we’re simultaneously seeing an outpouring of social media posts celebrating or seeing some sort of poetic justice in his death. Even those people who condemned the murder were quick to contemplate a motive—that the US health care system is broken.

While people have reason to be angry at many aspects of our nation’s approach to coverage and care, this justified...

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