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Of course they are. They have been! And then they go out and vote someone in who’s going to enrich these healthcare executives and shareholders like never before.

The line between voter sentiment and candidates/policy is completely busted, twisted by bubbles and feeds, and it’s going to get exponentially worse now. So I hate to sound cynical, but I don’t see what good this sentiment does unless these candidates get in the dirt and play the propaganda game.

We need to stop the needless CEO killings by switching to universal healthcare! Think of all the CEO lives we could save by doing this!

Wake up, grab your brush and put a little makeup

Agree, though we've had so many wake up calls lately...none seem to land.

Progressive lawmakers view the online praise for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a sign of deep public frustration with the U.S. healthcare system.

It’s not just the healthcare system

Is it though? Cause a lot of progressives vote like they are asleep. (I say this as a progressive mind you...)

Lies. This is just “give them news to calm them down” keep deposing!

I’ve lost all faith in the media and even stories like this. It feels like controlled opposition.

Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy, and the new patsy didn’t kill the asshole CEO who murdered grandmas and grandpas and made people’s lives a living hell by denying claims with AI.

They’ll release a mountain of evidence against him and find every way to discredit this “suspect” in public opinion. They’ll silence him and discredit him with their bully pulpit. That’s what they do. Meanwhile, the available evidence suggests strongly that he didn’t do it. Wrong guy.

Great, if we need any slightly miffed letters sent to people we disagree with, we'll call you.

Useless virtue signallers.

If only a bunch of people hadn't stayed home a month ago.

Snooze

Ok so what are they going to do about it? Rant on twitter? Wake up call for what? To do what? What’s the message? What’s the call for action?

When you’re in politics all the solutions awfully tend to look like politics as usual it seems.

We know how much will get done in healthcare with the next administration. I’m looking for someone to call for a general strike over this. Some actions that is not just some hope and prayer bill that will never get passed.

Unless lawmakers get their heads out of their asses and do something useful, the only change that will come from this "wake-up call" is that companies will try to obfuscate their executive roster and those executives will travel with a security detail paid for by denying more insurance claims.

Unfortunately, nothing will ever happen. Especially since Republicans have no interest in universal healthcare and hold every position of power now. It's all about money.

Calling for anything less than universal healthcare and the abolition of private, for-profit insurers means they still side with them.

There isn't any quagmire, we're the only "developed nation" that chooses not to have universal healthcare coverage in some form.

We choose not to solely because there's a booming industry profiting off selling us a fake guarantee of care, a con, and then killing us instead and keeping the premiums we paid them, score, and that industry pays politicians to be against it.

You show me a politician against universal healthcare, and I'll show you someone who either took the money, or a coward legislating by path of least resistance.

It’s nothing unless it happens directly to them, meaning the CEOs/wealthy. One death is a one-off. They’ll review or “enhance” their corporate security procedures which will consist of: telling already abused and overworked front line workers to watch some corporate security video and who to report suspicious people to. Tell middle managers to keep an eye on employees for suspicious behavior. Upper management will create the plan and worry unnecessarily it might be them targeted because they’re this close to actually being important. And the C-suite might actually get an occasional bodyguard, guard at home, or block access to the c-suite unless approved by said guard. Maybe. Most of them won’t GAF except a minor twinge of worry washed away by their next $75 glass of fine wine at a Michelin starred restaurant.

Who's waking up? We're already seeing the end of this news cycle. People are pre-occupied with the stupid drones in NJ and losing interest over this. I would nearly guarantee we see no long-term changes to our health care system. The public operates in 2 week outrages. It would take a longer attention span to actually fix something. Someone'd have to dismantle the corrupt lobbying system in DC. Reminder: this year ALONE companies spend more than $130 million on lobbying in DC. The politicians don't work for us, the people, they work for the health companies and their lobbyists. This is business as usual.