Bernie Sanders says CEO homicide got here amid individuals’s anger ‘rising up’ over medical health insurance denials | EUROtoday

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Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who has campaigned for a nationwide healthcare system, has stated the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s capturing underscores individuals’s frustration with the business.

Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, made the remarks on Meet the Press on Sunday morning.

“What I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry, which denies people the health care that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit,” the senator informed the present’s host Kristen Welker in response to a query about whether or not now’s the proper time to be discussing medical health insurance coverage.

Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the homicide, allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4 in New York City. He was arrested days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. At the time, police stated they discovered a handwritten manifesto on him outlining his motive.

“Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy,” Mangione allegedly wrote. He’s been charged with second-degree homicide in New York and gun-related prices in Pennsylvania.

While condemning Mangione’s homicide, Sanders, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, reiterated a few of the factors made within the alleged manifesto.

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“We need to ask ourselves when we talk about health care is why we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, why we have a life expectancy which is significantly lower than in other countries, why working-class people die five to ten years shorter than the people on top,” he stated

“I think the time is long overdue for us to guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child, especially at a time when we’re spending twice as much per capita on health care as the people of every other nation.”

Other Democratic lawmakers have lately highlighted issues with the healthcare system. In a TV interview earlier this week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren stated “you can only push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”

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She later stated: “I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Congresswoman from New York, stated the capturing revealed a “mass bubbling of resentment.”

“Of course, we don’t want to see the chaos that vigilantism presents,” she informed Business Insider. “We also don’t want to see the extreme suffering that millions of Americans confront when your life changes overnight from a horrific diagnosis.”

UnitedHealthcare denies extra claims than different insurers, in line with a report from Forbes. After Mangione’s arrest, his supporters donated tens of hundreds of {dollars} to his protection funds, surpassing $100,000. He’s at the moment being held in a Pennsylvania detetion facility whereas he fights extradition to New York.