Healthcare Reform

I hope you're correct. But when I say this is being celebrated in left spaces, I mean it. 


This guy is the professor of Columbia University, and frankly, represents everything that's wrong with the Progressive wing of the party. He is not alone in celebrating this in Left wing spaces, it is currently everywhere. 
He's not celebrating the death but instead pointing out that there are other deaths that we should pay attention to. I don't agree with the way he's going about it, but at least this tweet doesn't celebrate anyone's death. let alone Brian Thompson.

 
Exactly. It's also why Bernie Sanders is currently cozing up to certain elements of the Trump coalition. He's a populist politician who senses an opportunity.
This is some of the craziest stuff you've posted. Sanders has been saying the same things for decades. And what possible reason would he have for being opportunistic now? He's been winning his elections by large margins for a long time and isn't running for higher office. This seems more like you have an ax to grind with Sanders and are grasping at straws.

He's also my least favorite politician, if you can't tell. Nobody is more annoying than Bernie Sanders.
Have you been living under a rock for the past decade? Bernie Sanders is more annoying than Trump, MTG, and their ilk? Laughable.

All this being said, the reality is that the insurance industry is a low-margin business. UHCs margins are ~6%, their record profits are the result of massive scale and not corporate greed, and that healthcare costs are next to impossible to lower because the population is old and getting older. 
You conveniently left out where UHC leads the industry in rejecting claims. Perhaps most ironic is that your least favorite politician has been championing the solution to this for decades.

 
He's not celebrating the death but instead pointing out that there are other deaths that we should pay attention to. I don't agree with the way he's going about it, but at least this tweet doesn't celebrate anyone's death. let alone Brian Thompson.
With the exception of him saying "I am celebrating his death", it is pretty clear that he is, at the very least, using the death as a positive/celebration type tweet.  

 
I hope you're correct. But when I say this is being celebrated in left spaces, I mean it. 


This guy is the professor of Columbia University, and frankly, represents everything that's wrong with the Progressive wing of the party. He is not alone in celebrating this in Left wing spaces, it is currently everywhere. 

This is yet another misinformation tweet used to further inflame populist on the left. Companies agreed to limit Anesthesia and pay for it at the same rates as *MEDICARE*. It's a cost control effort because it's widely known that anesthesiologists vastly over charge. But Anesthesiologist Groups successfully lobbied, used left wing populism by flaming misinformation and now this cost control measure was killed. 

Exactly. It's also why Bernie Sanders is currently cozing up to certain elements of the Trump coalition. He's a populist politician who senses an opportunity. He's also my least favorite politician, if you can't tell. Nobody is more annoying than Bernie Sanders.

All this being said, the reality is that the insurance industry is a low-margin business. UHCs margins are ~6%, their record profits are the result of massive scale and not corporate greed, and that healthcare costs are next to impossible to lower because the population is old and getting older. 
I feel like me and you are the only people that post like normal humans.  

 
With the exception of him saying "I am celebrating his death", it is pretty clear that he is, at the very least, using the death as a positive/celebration type tweet.  
He's being callous and dismissive of the UHC CEO's death but not positive or celebratory. Again, I disagree with how the tweeter is making his point and have no problem with calling him out for it.

But Strangelove is trying to paint with a broad brush from a single example when even that example isn't saying what he claims. That's what I'm pushing back against.

 
He's being callous and dismissive of the UHC CEO's death but not positive or celebratory. Again, I disagree with how the tweeter is making his point and have no problem with calling him out for it.

But Strangelove is trying to paint with a broad brush from a single example when even that example isn't saying what he claims. That's what I'm pushing back against.
Yeah, I get what you are saying.  I think when you are callous and dismissive of someone being killed that you didn't "like" it is kind of being positive or celebrating.  

In the end it doesn't matter, the guy is dead and that tweet could have done without the first part.  

 
Yeah, I get what you are saying.  I think when you are callous and dismissive of someone being killed that you didn't "like" it is kind of being positive or celebrating.  

In the end it doesn't matter, the guy is dead and that tweet could have done without the first part.  




I think it's pretty clear that there's a difference.

We've seen people actively celebrate the deaths of others. Even in recent memory, with the left, we've seen celebrations regarding Rush Limbaugh and Henry Kissinger. I'm sure there are people actively celebrating this guy's death as well, but I imagine most fall somewhere in the realm of not caring at all and not being particularly sad or happy about this specific guy that we didn't know or know of.

 
I think it's pretty clear that there's a difference.

We've seen people actively celebrate the deaths of others. Even in recent memory, with the left, we've seen celebrations regarding Rush Limbaugh and Henry Kissinger. I'm sure there are people actively celebrating this guy's death as well, but I imagine most fall somewhere in the realm of not caring at all and not being particularly sad or happy about this specific guy that we didn't know or know of.
Well it really depends on what you think "celebrating" is, right?

Unless there is just one method of celebrating. 

 
You're overthinking this.
I think that is the issue, right?

I mean, if anyone at all thinks it looks/sounds/smells like celebrating or looking at it as a positive, that is the problem.  

Dude could have totally just said "What happend to the CEO if f#&%ing horrible and I hope the dude that killed him is hunted down and executed, like all killers should be.  I also feel so bad for people that pay their insurance and get denied coverage". 

How is that hard?  Nothing there to overthink, right?  But he clearly and carefully picked his words and he picked them for a reason.  I don't blame him at all, it got him clicks and probably followers.  Good for him.  But he knew what he was doing.

 
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