81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.”
In related news, 81 percent of diners at Michelin star restaurants rated their own food security as "excellent" or "good".
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81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.”
In related news, 81 percent of diners at Michelin star restaurants rated their own food security as "excellent" or "good".
Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero One of the more moving stories in The Times this week is an account of the life of Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare chief executive who was gunned down on Dec. 4 outside of a Midtown Manhattan hotel. Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.” Those details are worth bearing in mind as some people seek to cast his killing as a tale of justified, or at least understandable, fury against faceless corporate greed. One ex-Times reporter, Taylor Lorenz, said she felt “joy” at the killing. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator, offered that “violence is never the answer” but “people can only be pushed so far.” Pictures of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of Thompson, have also elicited a fair amount of oohing and ahhing on social media over his toned physique and bright smile. But if Mangione’s personal story (at least what we know of it so far) is supposed to serve as some sort of parable, it isn’t one that progressives should take comfort in. He is the scion of a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, was educated at an elite private school and the University of Pennsylvania and worked remotely from a nice apartment in Hawaii. And while Mangione, like millions of people, apparently suffered from debilitating back pain, excellent health care is not generally an issue for Americans of great wealth. All this suggests that Mangione may prove to be a figure out of a Dostoyevsky novel — Raskolnikov with a silver spoon. It’s a familiar type. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, was a lawyer’s son whose mother moved him to London before he went on to become an international terrorist. Osama bin Laden came from immense wealth. Angry rich kids jacked up on radical, nihilistic philosophies can cause a lot of harm, not least to the working-class folks whose interests they pretend to champion. As for the suggestion that Thompson’s murder should be an occasion to discuss America’s supposed rage at private health insurers, it’s worth pointing out that a 2023 survey from the nonpartisan health policy research institute KFF found that 81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.” Even a majority of those who say their health is “fair” or “poor” still broadly like their health insurance. No industry is perfect — nor is any health care model — and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers. Thompson’s life may have been cut brutally short, but it will remain a model for how a talented and determined man from humble roots can still rise to the top of corporate life without the benefit of rich parents and an Ivy League degree. As for the killer, John Fetterman had the choicest words: He’s “going to die in prison,” the peerless Pennsylvania senator told HuffPost. “Congratulations if you want to celebrate that.”
The NYT's true colors are showing more obviously every day.
Its an editorial bro... Why are you shitting on genocide apologist of record?!
Bullshit.
Absolutely. Shit from a very unwell bull that has been refusing to eat anything except for the shit of other bulls for a week.
It belongs here for sure. What in the world ?
I had to look up who Brian Thompson was.
Yeah, who gives a fuck about what his parents did for a living, he fucked over people's health and lives for profit.
You know the rags to riches story is the best rock of owner class narrative...
If you work hard enough, you can join the club! I'd you are not in the club, you clearly didn't work hard enough, peasant.
Obviously other rich people, like the chucklef who penned it
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Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”
is true... then he's a class traitor; not a hero. he made his money fucking over the working class. that's not heroic.
he made his money fucking over the working class. that's not heroic
I mean, of course it isn't, but nobody told the NYT or their opinion writers who are currently tripping over each other trying to normalize Trump, Thompson, and other monsters..
you really think someone would do that? just go on a once-respected publication and tell lies?
But they're not lying. It's pretty reasonable to believe both that his parents were working class, and that him becoming a class traitor on such a level does make him a hero in capitalist eyes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Just".... ? no. There's a certain vetting process that makes sure they tell the right lies.
the precipitous fall of print media over the past couple decades is something that would one day be written about in the history books if they weren't also full of shit.
Thank you for your service...
More people need to understand how media whores for the regime
Not sure if you didn't get it, but that's a reference to an Arthur meme.
There are two jobs where you can go on national TV, lie and not get fired. President and weather man.
Paywall removed https://archive.is/DxLk8
People paid to read this crap? Lol
Fixed the post link right before seeing your comment, but thanks 🙂
I don't care to read any article with THAT headline! Even with the paywall removed. I appriciate your efforts to fuck over the concept of paywalls, but this is one article I won't care to read.
Fuck you, NYT!