So, this is where we’re at now. A 50-year-old husband and father of two gets gunned down on a Manhattan street, and, among many others, internet sleuths who normally jump into action are sitting on their hands and saying “absolutely not,” when asked if they’re going to help look for leads. And it’s because the victim was CEO of United Health Care, apparently the face of Big Health, some sort of ogre, a target, a symptom of… what?
It’s no secret that America’s health care system is in serious need of not only a makeover but some sort of total revamping, restructuring, refocusing, and a bunch of other words. So, some angry yet quite methodical Robin Hood(?) decides to take matters into his (are we sure it’s guy?) own hands, and the general public is suddenly indifferent to a violent, cold-blooded killer.
He shot the guy in the back from close range. In one of the most highly surveilled places on earth. With a silencer.
To many, apparently, he’s become some sort of hero. To many, this will not be troubling. In this nation of itchy trigger fingers and short tempers and outsized grievance and a growing list of “things that aren’t working for me”, no big surprise.
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