Like many people, I suspect, I’ve felt uncomfortable about the reaction to the arrest of Luigi Mangione for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Of course the act of cold-blooded, calculated murder is evil. And there are no “justifications” for taking a life.

And I think Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Rogan etcetera are plain wrong for giving wishy-washy caveats. “Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” said Elizabeth Warren. Rogan has said health insurers are “fucking gross.”

But Luigi Mangione wasn’t pushed – at least not specifically by UnitedHealthcare. There is no evidence he was ever even a member of United.

Further, I’d argue young Mangione (and the tragedy here, is that he is per his manifesto, clearly young) was wrong in his assumption that single payer systems, like the one we have in my native Britain are better. Reportedly he talked to the British writer Gurwinder Bhogal months before the murder and “complained about how expensive healthcare in the US was, and expressed envy at the UK’s nationalized health system.”

I’m a dual citizen: British and American, so I have experience of both systems.

Neither, I have to tell you, is perfect. It’s a case of pick your poison.

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