American Guillotine

Fred-Rick
4 min readDec 12, 2024

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How the murder of a Healthcare Provider CEO is revolutionary?

Brian Thomson, CEO UnitedHealthcare. Source: Wikipedia

Murder is never the answer; murder is the symptom of a sick assessment, with one person taking the right to murder another person because he was perceived/recognized as having too-much-power over the perpetrator.

Let there be no mistake! No one should die for this reason because murder is a bestial act, not a deeply human reaction to a real problem.

That said, many people ‘applauded’ the perpetrator, and — sick as this may seem — these ‘supporters’ actually had reasonable arguments for their ‘applause’.

  • The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world, but it does not perform at that high level. Stacked against others, the USA is not even in the top 40 nations with providing its own people good healthcare.

Something is obviously extremely fishy.

Understand that something fishy is not a good reason to kill someone else.

What follows is not about the murder itself.

The essence of what follows is about an industry not providing the maximum of what it can (or should) provide.

What follows is about an industry having become like a French elite, late in the 18th century.

When an industry is left to regulate itself, and then does not regulate itself in light of the common goals of that industry, but rather organizes itself around taking in large amounts of money, then that fish is obviously rotten.

  • What is also rotten is the government not stepping in to regulate this industry better.

In effect, there are two rotten fish— not just one.

Next to nations with national healthcare, there are also nations in the world that have the exact same capitalist healthcare system that we have — with private companies running the show, competing with one another. Just the way we like it.

Yet these nations have something we do not have:
A government that patrols the industry, sets prices for services, establishes minimum guarantees.

That may sound strict if you are a purist libertarian, but these companies are actually making good money. They are not anemic companies.

  • Prices are controlled but not in a restrictive kind of a way, services are allowed to differ in quality. The rich will get better treatments (of course), but the poor will not be dumped onto the street. No Skid Rows in these other capitalist nations.

To some it is really a surprise that pure capitalist nations need not have National Healthcare like, for instance, the UK, and still delivering so much better healthcare than the USA.

Yet these capitalist nations have governments that are smart and who work for all involved.

A smart government sees all colors and acts accordingly.

Every government has a role to play and should use its power to keep everyone happy (as much as possible).

When the voting system is limited, however, then the eyes of the government end up being color blind. Meaning, the eyes do see colors, but they do not see all colors.

  • In the USA the eyes are forced to adhere themselves to Red and Blue.

The United States has a voting system that gives voters the option to pick from two parties. When both parties are in bed with big business, then the voters cannot express themselves, voting-wise, if and when they dislike what both parties are doing.

Both parties can ignore the larger needs of the people because they can sit on their thrones without risking being taken off their throne.

Both parties focus on the ones that can deliver them the win. They can ignore everyone else, and that will show up in the results.

And then… there is the French Revolution.

When enough is enough, meaning when enough is far beyond being enough, then people can start to riot.

  • People do not riot just for pleasure. The straw (nothing special by itself) that broke the camel’s back is not what motivates people. The abuse that was ongoing for far too long is the issue.

This is then similar to the French Revolution in which the French elite was truly disconnected from other people’s reality. They had no idea what their decisions were (not) accomplishing for ordinary people.

Contrary to popular belief it was actually a relatively small group of people that stormed the Bastille. A relatively small group of people started the French Revolution.

A straw is all it takes to break the camel’s back.

And that is why a single person could have started the American Revolution anew.

  • The French guillotine, however, is then replaced by the ubiquitous American gun!

My wish is that the only victim of this revolution will be the CEO taken down already.

Let there be no other bloodshed.
Let all folks in the healthcare industry start regulating themselves, so the USA ends up in the top five of nations with good healthcare.

They owe it to us. They owe it to themselves. They owe is to the reason their industry is here in the first place.

If they do not, then we may need to reform our voting system.

Political Red and Political Blue are in bed with big businesses. The voters are systematically made incapable to vote for Green, Yellow, or Orange in any significant way.

  • Politically, we are censored. They have us by the balls.

Green, Yellow, and Orange can show us the way to what is really going on in our healthcare system. Politically, we need to get access to Green, Yellow, and Orange to stop the bleeding.

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