I hope that was a mugger

United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on Wednesday in New York City. Written on the shell casings left by his killer were the words "Deny," "Defend," and "Depose," which suggests this was not a random killing. NYC police have been investigating the fact that UnitedHealthcare has been under attack recently from People's Action Institute — a leftist organization with a leftist name whose website describes their goals thusly: "Advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people's lives." Why can't leftists just come out and say what they want? I can think of only one possible explanation, and it's not good.

Anyway, People's Action Institute released the following statement recently about Medicare patients getting denied coverage. They mentioned no specific cases, but said:
"Despite having health insurance coverage, people are experiencing barriers to receiving care. The largest barrier to receiving care is the private health insurance corporations themselves refusing to authorize or pay for care."
These people have apparently never heard of Canadian or British healthcare systems. They have also never heard of Obamacare, apparently, in which millions of people have health insurance but can't get health care. They're shocked. SHOCKED!

Leftists demand that government pay for health care. So we get Medicare. Today, Medicare has a $1 trillion dollar budget, 75% of which is deficit spending. And even with that, Medicare can't come close to meeting the health care needs of elderly Americans. So it allows them to buy secondary insurance, to help cover that which Medicare just can't afford. And even with that, the private insurance companies can't cover everything, either. We eventually run out of other people's money. And guess who leftists get mad at? Private insurance companies.

That really is amazing. If Medicare worked, we wouldn't need private insurance companies to be involved at all. Medicare begs them for help, and hands them a problem which they can't solve. But leftists still love Medicare. Even though Medicare doesn't work. Because it can't work. Medicare borrows 3/4 of a TRILLION dollars a year, and it's not enough. Perhaps Medicare doesn't work? Because it can't work?

And that's the fault of private insurance companies.

Imagine private insurance companies seeing this and thinking, "This is not worth the trouble. We're not going to do Medicare plans." Imagine Medicare without secondary insurance. It doesn't cover anything. The Canadian system sort of works because when Canadians get sick, they come to America.

Where would we send our sick people? Mexico?

Government programs don't work because they can't work. If that inevitable outcome leads to violence from its proponents, then this becomes a Mobius Strip of resentment and destruction.

Was this killing in NYC the act of a left-wing organization that blames private companies for the problems that result from their own irrational faith in government?

I really hope not. Because if that's true, then this is just the beginning.

Political violence nearly always comes from the left. Were the Black Lives Matter riots just a sample of things to come? Is American society actively tearing itself apart? Has our government and its supporters developed an open adversarial relationship with the American people?

I really hope not.

This could get ugly quickly.

I hope that was just a mugger on a NYC sidewalk.

Because if this was a politically targeted killing, planned by angry leftists, then this could get ugly really, really quickly.