‘Doesn’t Give a S—t About People’: Dem Senator Chris Murphy Shames Health Care System in Response to UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder
17th December 2024
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D.) slammed the health care industry’s “immoral system” in response to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying “thousands of people” die every day at the “hands of a health care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s—t about people.”
“What I see happening in this country is a real visceral anger that the outrage at Brian Thompson’s death, or the outrage at the death of any powerful person, isn’t matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die, often anonymous deaths every single day in this country at the hands of a health care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s—t about people and only cares about profits,” Murphy said in an X post over the weekend.
“Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life, but these companies are,” Murphy continued. “The business model of the health care industry is to deny care, necessary medical care to people who need it and force them into bankruptcy or worse let them die in order to grow profit, … that’s an immoral system.”