In her opinion piece about the murder of the CEO of United healthcare, Ms. Gaines writes βof course I do not condone murder.β Yet, throughout her piece, she writes about the ills of the health insurance industry, as an implied stimulus for the murder. As a retired physician, I know many of the faults are real. However, her implication that someone could be upset enough to murder an executive in the Health Care industry is wrong. There is, and was, no justification to murder the father of two children in cold blood. Mangione is a murderer, pure and simple. Perhaps he is deranged, perhaps not. He is no folk hero. Ms. Gaines gives herself away again at the close of her piece when she writes, βWe should be surprised that this did not occur sooner."
Donald Jeck
Foothills
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