Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) defended his colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over her remarks about UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s homicide and the nation’s well being care system, calling it “outrageous” Thompson was killed.
Sanders joined NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the place he was requested about Warren’s feedback final week that the “visceral” response to Thompson’s loss of life is a “warning” about how People view the trade. Warren later clarified and famous all violence is fallacious.
“Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting somebody in the back is totally unacceptable,” Sanders stated, in remarks highlighted by Mediaite.
“But what I think has happened in the last few months is that, what you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit,” he continued.
Thompson was shot and killed earlier this month exterior a Manhattan resort the place his firm was internet hosting its annual investor convention. The suspect fled and a days-long manhunt ensued.
Twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania final week because the suspected assassin. He was arrested on gun expenses in Pennsylvania and been charged with homicide in New York however is preventing extradition.
Mangione has seen a flood of on-line sympathy and assist, with many on social media expressing grievances with the U.S. well being care system.
Warren argued in an interview with HuffPost final week that violence isn’t the reply however acknowledged that “people can be pushed only so far.” She stated the killing was a warning that if persons are pushed far sufficient, “they lose faith” in authorities to make change and lose religion within the well being care system.
Sanders agreed, noting it’s “outrageous” to kill anybody and “nobody should applaud it.”
“I think what we need to ask ourselves when we talk about health care is why we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people, why we have a life expectancy which is significantly lower than in other countries, why working-class people die five to ten years shorter than the people on top,” Sanders stated.
The Vermont senator stated he feels “very strongly” in regards to the subject and stated it was “long overdue” for the nation to ensure well being look after its residents.
The “goal of health care is not to make drug companies and insurance companies phenomenally rich, it’s to guarantee quality care to all of our people,” he stated.
