The First Pitchfork

 

   I don’t blame the murdered CEO of UHC for the fucked up health care system in America. It was fucked up long before he came along. 

    Though he didn’t fuck up our system he did intensify how fucked up it could be. The expired CEO of United Health Care used AI to reject claims submitted to his corporation. Money not paid out for medical procedures stayed in the corporate coffers. 

    He even saved money by using robots to do his dirty work. I’ll bet he got a huge bonus for using machines instead of costly humans to condemn people to death! 

    I wonder how Asimov’s three laws of robotics fits in here?

    He was the lowest paid health insurance CEO in America (Only ten megabucks a year) but he was movin’ on up and he was doing it by means of manslaughter: people died because of the decisions he made. 

    He was guilty.

    Would I have given the order to execute the CEO of United Health Care? 

    I would not. 

    Did I celebrate his execution? 

    I did not. 

    Do I condemn those that do? 

    I do not.

    The CEO of a health insurance corporation was murdered. The reaction of the social media universe was odd but not unexpected. Comedians are making jokes about it. 

    Luigi Mangioni killed the CEO of United Healthcare’s insurance division. He printed a gun, printed the words Delay, Depose, Deny on bullet casings found at the crime scene and escaped on a bicycle.

    This execution seemed like the fever dream of a progressive independent voter. It was so perfectly timed as to seem like a reaction to the results of a federal election that would condemn America to four more years of concepts of an overhauled health care system. 

    Is it a coincidence that the murder happened after tyrannosaurus Rump was elected? Hard to say, but the timing fits pretty snugly.

    Is murder the only thing that would trigger the US government into doing something positive for the American people? Would CEOs of health insurance corporations acquiesce, knowing their own lives might be in jeopardy?

    Corporations are not people, no matter what Mitt Romney (a.k.a. rMoney) says. Corporations have no responsibility to its consumers. If someone gets cheated, scammed or killed, no one on the board of directors will go to jail, or even get an upset tummy. If the corporation is found liable it will receive a fine so small as to not be noticed.

    In the day to day lives of the average working stiff, what keeps us from murdering every asshole we come across is our personal liability. If we kill someone there is a damn good chance someone will kill us.

    The United States government is trying to kill Luigi Mangioni. They’re trying to make terrorism charges stick so that he can be prosecuted by the US government, therefore eligible for the death penalty.

    Terrorism? 

    There is no getting around the fact that premeditated murder is a heinous crime, but need I remind you that people who went into schools, movie theaters and night clubs with the intent of killing everyone with a high powered rifle are NOT sitting on death row?

    I’ve long despised corporations for their wanton abuses of power. For buying politicians and escaping liability in the American justice system. But I despise them the most for not being forced to be good citizens. We don’t expect them to pay their fair share in taxes or to tell the truth when they advertise their wares, even if their product has the potential to do harm.

    My biggest issue; my biggest bitch about corporations, is that they don’t have a neck that an executioner can slip a noose onto.

    When the death of this CEO is a distant memory and nothing changes, will it be over? Will there be no other reaction to how corporations are running rampant in the US?

    My advice to any health insurance CEO who fears for their life but wants to keep profiting off the miserable health care system in America, buy a bullet-proof backpack. Just think, if that murdered CEO had been wearing a bullet-proof backpack he might still be alive today.

    You may have to get your bullet-proof backpack altered to fit, because they only make them for school kids afraid of being killed during an active shooter event.

    Good luck!