A number of high-profile progressive figures have hedged on the homicide of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson after he was shot and killed in New York Metropolis, saying violence is unsuitable however conditioning their remarks with statements concerning the woes of the U.S. well being care system.
Luigi Mangione was arrested Monday after a manhunt and charged with Thompson’s homicide, which was dedicated exterior a lodge in Manhattan final week. Mangione has turn into a folks hero to some far-left figures who really feel Thompson’s demise is a deserved backlash towards medical health insurance giants like UnitedHealthcare that deny protection or cost excessive premiums.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., condemned the homicide this week however mentioned that Thompson’s demise also needs to function a “warning.”Â
“Violence isn’t the reply, however folks might be pushed solely thus far,” she informed HuffPost. “This can be a warning that in case you push folks laborious sufficient, they lose religion within the capability of their authorities to make change, lose religion within the capability of the people who find themselves offering the well being care to make change, and begin to take issues into their very own palms in methods that may finally be a risk to everybody.”
ELIZABETH WARREN SAYS KILLING OF UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO WAS A WARNING: ‘YOU CAN ONLY PUSH PEOPLE SO FAR’
Elizabeth Warren, Pleasure Reid and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Getty Photographs)
Warren made comparable feedback to MSNBC host Pleasure Reid about Thompson’s homicide.Â
“Persons are very indignant about well being care, I believe for good motive, denying care, and the entire system … killing a CEO isn’t the way in which you alter,” Reid mentioned. “It’s a must to regulate them.”Â
“We’ll say it again and again,” Warren mentioned. “Violence isn’t the reply. This man will get a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care], however you’ll be able to solely push folks thus far, after which they begin to take issues into their very own palms.”
Warren later walked again her feedback to Fox Information Digital.
“Violence isn’t the reply. Interval,” she mentioned. “I ought to have been a lot clearer that there’s by no means a justification for homicide.”
Journalist Piers Morgan additionally clashed with left-wing journalist Taylor Lorenz over her obvious sympathy for Mangione throughout an episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that aired Monday night. Throughout this system, Lorenz admitted she felt “pleasure” over Thompson’s demise.
Piers Morgan unloaded on Taylor Lorenz on Monday for claiming she felt pleasure over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s homicide. Lorenz claimed she was referring to feeling pleasure about there being extra of a debate concerning the well being care business. (Screenshot/PiersMorganUncensored)
When a shocked Morgan confronted Lorenz for her feedback, saying Thompson is a “husband and father,” Lorenz replied, “So are the tens of 1000’s of Individuals that he murdered! So are the tens of 1000’s of Individuals, harmless Individuals, who died as a result of grasping medical health insurance executives like this one push a coverage of denying care to probably the most susceptible folks.”
She later mentioned she by no means felt “pleasure over that man’s demise” however reasonably as a result of extra persons are listening to the systemic issues in American healthcare.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin learn out feedback final week mocking Thompson’s demise on social media, saying that the celebration from among the American public is “reflective about how persons are feeling about their well being care.” At one level she mentioned, “Is not that one thing?”
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“Our nation is among the solely international locations that doesn’t have common well being care, and we don’t deal with our aged and persons are feeling the pinch,” Hostin mentioned. (Screenshot/ABC)
“Our nation is among the solely international locations that doesn’t have common well being care, and we don’t deal with our aged and persons are feeling the pinch,” Hostin mentioned. “We discuss that on a regular basis and I believe persons are actually indignant on the well being care system and, sadly, it’s translating to this father.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has additionally spoken out following the homicide of Thompson, saying violence wasn’t “justified” however folks view medical health insurance denials as their very own act of aggression.
“This isn’t to say that an act of violence is justified, however I believe for anybody who’s confused or shocked or appalled, they should perceive that individuals interpret and really feel and expertise denied claims as an act of violence towards them,” she mentioned this week.Â
Fox Information’ David Rutz and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.Â
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