It's extremely difficult to have sympathy for this person, just look at the data. They were the highest by percentage of claims denied of any company. They were being investigated for fraud, corruption, _and_ monopolistic behavior. Many people (including myself) have had family members killed by the state of Healthcare in America. Just last week i was wondering to my friends how things like this don't happen more often!

Healthcare companies are run by their executives and their shareholders. Those people have been actively pushing our passively watching extremely harmful policies get enacted month after month. Another company just announced it'll only pay for the estimated amount of anesthesia for a surgery, and not the actual amount needed (you know, when you live in reality and not on a spreadsheet).

I'll say, personally, i watched my own mother slowly die because:

1) she was afraid to go to the doctor for fear of having to use my father's insurance which i needed very badly and which she had to use after being laid off from a highly profitable corporation in 2009

2) when she did use his insurance (she was right) they fought very very hard to not cover the necessary treatments. The amount of anguish and terror they put my father through was equal to that of watching his wife wither and die, he'll say that himself

3) the _only_ reason she even got what she did was that he was high enough in _his_ work position and there long enough to have significant pull with the tpp guys, who are the only actual human beings in the entire story. They fought for him and the entire company switched health providers because of the cost of one man's wife.

Every human you talk to on the phone will try to help you and genuinely wish you well. All the people in the doctors office and so incredibly kind and helpful and knowledgeable. What we have, is a group of blood sucking number-brained vampires, running these systems. I watched my mother die because she was scared to use a healthcare system that she had worked for, paid into for the vast majority of her life. The system didn't care about her, the system wanted her to die because it would save a couple thousand dollars on a 20 billion dollar balance sheet.

How many of us have seen this happen. I think we Americans tend to kinda forget that we can choose a different system, we can fight for a better reality. And the assassination, practically ritual murder in the eyes of some, of this man, this executive that represents the worst of the worst of the system, his death brings us back to the reality which we actually can change. The high guard of Healthcare aren't invincible, maybe the system isn't either. We all just watched a man die in the street, but most of us have watched people far more important to us die before, sacrificed for people like him. A lot of us have had to fight endless pointless hours to receive something which _every single human around us_ believes and knows is completely necessary, just to eventually be allowed the privilege of being charged impossible amounts for treatment your need. Die or debt, the system says. It's just so nice to not be the one in the system that's scared, even if only for a moment.

Life is not neal breen, most likely this won't trigger a revolution or any lasting change, besides executives becoming harder to kill and more detached from regular life of normal people. But could this work? If our political system is have a hard time making bastard megacorporations treat us like people, we'll executive assassinations work? What kind of fear will happen and is it the kind that will make them want to fix problems? Seems like that might require some kind of movie-esque hacking the tv channels and presenting your demands along with actions to back it up. Will this change anything?