Accused killer Luigi Mangione has been hailed online by Americans frustrated with their broken health insurance system

Murder is seldom an appropriate response to anything. Yet the thousands of gloating online comments about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, though indecent, are understandable.

The shots were fired early on the morning of Dec. 4, striking UnitedHealthcare CEO and 1997 valedictorian of the University of Iowa Brian Thompson as he walked toward the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

A TikToker is being praised for their 'spot on' explanation as to why Gen Z are feeling 'especially numb' to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death

Among wealthier countries, Americans “die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths” despite spending almost twice as much on health care as others, a recent Commonwealth Fund Study found.

Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s richest

Because the United States still doesn't have a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. On December 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare's 50- year-old CEO.

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One particular American's death has driven that point home. On December 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare's 50-year-old CEO. The bullet casings from the shooting read "deny," "defend," and "depose." Those three words neatly sum up the ...

On Dec. 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s 50-year-old CEO ... “To most Americans,” agreed the New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino, “a company like UnitedHealth represents less the provision of medical care than an active obstacle ...

Call it the empathy gap or empathy deficit, a landmark study of college students highlighted the issue in 2010 when it found a steep decline in empathy among young people between 1979 and 2009. Empathy is the ability to share and understand the feelings of another person.

Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care system that