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Recent news and our reactions to it says awful things about us.
A healthcare CEO, the father of two and chief executive of a company that denies healthcare to sick people to maximize profits, was shot to death in Manhattan.
I understand that this was a brazen act, and dramatic video of it was caught by security cameras. This is a story. But this is not the only story.
What happened to people denied healthcare is also a story. We don’t have video and don’t know the names of these people. But it’s a very, very important story.
So is the story of how the United States, alone among major industrialized nations, is the only one with for-profit healthcare.
And what about OTHER stories, one’s that were lost in the dramatic Manhattan murder mystery? I see that a gunman in California shot and wounded two elementary school kids, and those kids are in critical condition.
Do you even know that happened? I barely heard about it. I haven’t seen much about it in the news and I don’t know what happened to those children. I don’t hear any calls for gun control, even though the United States has incredibly weak gun laws and effectively guarantees the proliferation of deadly weapons. And it’s the only country with mass shootings so common that most of them don’t even make the news.
