A vile CEO of a private health insurance company, assassinated.
Let’s be honest about what private health insurance really is: a predatory system that routinely chooses profits over human lives. Every day, insurance executives make calculated decisions to deny life-saving care to desperate people, knowing their choices will lead to death and devastation for countless families.
The numbers reveal the savage reality of this industry. Last year alone, 70,000 Americans died because insurance companies decided their lives weren’t worth the cost of treatment. Think about that – the entire population of a small city, wiped out by boardroom decisions. The company at the center of recent events actually tripled their denial rate from 8% to 22%, essentially signing death warrants for thousands while their profit margins soared.
The private insurance industry has perfected the art of legal killing. They hire armies of analysts whose sole job is to find reasons to deny care. They employ teams of lawyers to defend their right to let people die. They spend millions lobbying Congress to protect their ability to profit from human suffering. And they do all this while paying their executives millions in bonuses – blood money, earned through the systematic destruction of American families.
Medical debt now drives 40% of all bankruptcies in America, and most of these people actually had insurance. This isn’t failure – it’s their business model working exactly as designed. The industry creates policies deliberately full of loopholes, waiting periods, and exclusions, knowing that when people are at their most vulnerable, they can deny coverage and protect their profits.
While I cannot condone violence of any kind, the recent events force us to confront an uncomfortable truth: we’ve normalized a system of institutional violence that dwarfs any individual act. Every denial letter is an act of violence. Every rejected claim is an attack on a family’s survival. Every premium increase is an assault on Americans’ basic right to live.
The private insurance industry has built an empire on human suffering. They’ve turned emergency rooms into profit centers and transformed medical decisions into business calculations. They’ve created a system where a child’s cancer treatment is judged not by its chance of success, but by its impact on quarterly earnings.
When we talk about healthcare violence, we must acknowledge the daily brutality of a system that forces parents to choose between life-saving medication and feeding their children. A system that pushes families into poverty for the crime of getting sick. A system that has convinced us that letting people die for profit is somehow normal business practice.
The tragedy isn’t just in the numbers – it’s in the fundamental immorality of an industry that has perfected the art of monetizing human suffering. Every year, insurance executives earn millions in bonuses for finding new ways to deny care. They celebrate increased denial rates as “efficiency improvements.” They toast their stock prices while families plan funerals.
This isn’t healthcare – it’s systematic extortion backed by the threat of death. The private insurance industry has more in common with organized crime than with healthcare, extracting payments under duress and delivering nothing but paperwork and denials in return.
While violence can never be the answer, we must confront the blood-soaked reality of what private health insurance truly is: an industry that has turned death into a profit center and suffering into a business model. Until we acknowledge this fundamental truth, we cannot hope to build a healthcare system that actually serves human needs rather than corporate greed.