THE REAL VILLAINS

THE REAL VILLAINS

Dec. 5, 2024

WILLING SLAVERY - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

The CEO of health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was gunned down by a masked assailant on Wednesday, much to the delight of Americans who've been suffering under their nation's abusive healthcare system and the sociopathic profiteers who make their fortunes exploiting them through it.

UnitedHealthcare has an unusually high rate of claim denials, even compared to its fellow predatory health insurance companies, and as CEO of the company Brian Thompson was personally raking in $10.2 million a year.

The casings on the bullets used to murder Thompson reportedly had the words "deny", "defend" and "depose" written on them, an apparent reference to the "delay, deny, defend" tactics notoriously used by health insurance companies to avoid payouts.

This really nails home the point that the legal system is not intended to protect ordinary citizens from the worst people in our society, it's there to protect the very worst in our society from ordinary citizens. You can see this just by watching the frenetic police manhunt that's underway for Brian Thompson's killer while Thompson himself was walking around a free man, and an obscenely wealthy one at that, despite his having made his wealth via profits reaped from corporate policies designed to deprive sick and injured people of healthcare as frequently as possible.

None of the world's worst people are in prison. Our society is fed a steady diet of movies and shows depicting heroic protagonists fighting villains who abuse and murder people in illegal ways, when in real life the actual villains of our society murder people in ways that are completely legal. None of their abuses are against the law.

Reading by Tim Foley

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