Anger toward health insurers reflects people's 'pent-up pain'
In the aftermath of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's fatal shooting, an outpouring of rage at the U.S. health care system has risen to the surface.
Social media posts have ranged from mournful to apathetic to joyful, including morbid celebrations of Thompson’s death. That deluge has forced people across the country to grapple with two heavy subjects at once: the callousness of a slaying, and an undercurrent of deep-seated anger at a health care industry that makes a lot of money by exploiting Americans.
“People feel there is an inherent unfairness in the way that the system works,” one advocate said. “That someone who has health insurance gets sick and then it’s a company, a business, that can be the barrier to them accessing the care they need to sometimes save their lives.”