Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain
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It sucks the costs are so high, but their situation does not fill me with the anger and indignation like others I've read, and wonder if this guy was basically angry with life and looking to blame someone.
You might just not have enough empathy and aren’t paying attention to how the entire system is rigged against humans attempting to obtain care.
“If it’s just about money,” we can fix that, money is a fake construct. Policy is, supposedly (but not actually), collectively agreed upon. We choose not to fix this. Some will do nothing about this. Some will do something.
Not at all, my family members have had struggles with crappy insurance.
I'm sure it was tough for them with chronic pain - but I don't see a dotted line from health insurance stupidity to their suffering. Especially given his background, income, and earnings potential, I'm not seeing a reason for him to blame insurance tbh.
Let me know if you want to ride along sometime while I attempt to hack around fuckery.
These treatments are available _now_, and everyone in western Europe can have them, from the poor to the ultra-rich. The fact that someone in the USA paying through the nose (in comparison to how much we pay in Europe) can't, should explain his motivations.
> ...should explain his motivations.
Yes they can - however European medical systems do "ration" these in their own way, but via bureaucracy and waiting.
Reading his manifesto, a big part of his frustration is getting the runaround and misdiagnosis. Given this guys mental state, I'm not confident he'd be fine with European care either. They also were not poor from what I understand.
Not in the two European countries I've lived in. The UK's NHS works without insurance and is admittedly a total shitshow in London, but I've heard that it's okay outside of the major cities. Other countries that have varying levels of subsidised healthcare with insurance don't ration in the way you're describing.