What’s wrong with the picture above? Anyone? As the graph shoots upward, more people must die or be denied care to achieve ever-increasing profits, which drive the stock price. It’s that simple. And don’t lecture me about free markets and capitalism. When it comes to health care, there is no such thing as a “free market.” Healthy people typically go without health care insurance, if they can, and sick people (especially the chronically ill) must have it. Talk about a captured market where demand is completely inelastic, meaning that “health care” companies can charge whatever they want and the demand for care remains relatively unchanged. And those who become priced out of the market are those who will eventually die. What a fantastic business model: Buy our product or die! (If the insurer doesn’t kill you first.)
Look, it doesn’t take an Einstein to determine this was a targeted murder by someone who himself or has a family member who has (or had) a serious issue with this “healthcare” company. But this is what you get when health care is a for-profit industry in the great, great country of the United States of America. Only in this country do we allow companies to profit off of sick people! Only in ‘Merica! I’m sure that I’m not the only one who feels absolutely zero love loss over this incident. I’m only more surprised by the fact that something like this hasn’t happened earlier. I think all the C-suites and boards of directors in healthcare companies should be on edge. People are fed up with greed at the expense of lives. People are done with profits over people! Just wait until Dictator Don kills the ACA — and he will! You think things are bad now. Ha! Welcome to stupid America!