Dem senator slams healthcare industry that mostly doesnt give a st, urges lawmakers to listen to visceral anger after Luigi Mangione accused of executing UnitedHealthcare CEO

Democratic Sen.Chris Murphy slammed the “health care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s–t” about ailing patients and urged fellow lawmakers to heed the “visceral anger” of Americans after the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.“I’m never going to condone violence.

I don’t here,” Murphy (D-Conn.) began in a video posted to X on Sunday, before adding: “What I see happening in this country though, is a real visceral anger, that the outrage of Brian Thompson’s death, or the outrage of the death of any powerful person, isn’t matched by the anger over the anger of the thousands of people who die often anonymous deaths every single day at the hands of a health care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s–t.”“People in America today feel ignored, they feel scared, they feel alone that intentionally grinds them down.A system where profit matters more than life,” he said.

“My colleagues need to listen and we need to do something about it.”Political flacks and pundits immediately piled on Murphy for what they saw as a grotesque response to the violence, with Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Jeremy Redfern firing back: “You don’t have to listen to murderers, actually.”Thompson, 50, was executed in broad daylight on the streets of Manhattan while heading to a conference.Some Americans critical of private health insurers have celebrated accused shooter Mangione, combing through the 26-year-old’s public posts and pictures and even creating merch about other “most wanted CEOs.”But Murphy and other Democratic senators have sought to channel the rage of Americans against private health insurers in the wake of the shooting.“Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life,” Murphy said in his video post.

“But these companies are.”“The business model of the health care industry is to deny care, necessary medical care to people who need it and force them into bankruptcy, or w...