Luigi caused a wave of insurance companies to pause killing people for profit for a moment.

Nothing else has ever come close so far.

"Nothing changed."

Killing Brian Thompson had a real, if temporary, effect. They denied fewer claims.

And the shooting of that CEO made health insurance panic to the point that they approved almost every request for care for the first time ever.

There are literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, that are alive today, thanks to the industries panic response to that shooting leading to mass approvals.

Single Payer/Medicare for all is the ideal, but until we get there.. there is a clear mechanism to make the system better and act in the interests of patients.

Ah, so, do many Luigis!

Insurance companies pay exorbitant amounts of money to tell politicians that single payer insurance isn’t a feasible option.

Insurance companies lose a lot of money when they have to hire a new CEO because the other one died.

For several months after the UHC CEO was shot, cases were denied significantly less often and were handled much faster than usual. This cost the insurance companies money too.

In other words, if you’d like your vote for single-payer insurance to ever be heard, you have to quit down the really loud insurance companies and the only way to do that is to burn their pockets.

If 1 Luigi doesn't work, 10 might do the job. Gotta throw enough at it for change to be permanent

let me emphasize here: killing people is wrong, even when the people are health care CEOs

Hard disagree. It's wrong EXCEPT for them and others in their club. In their cases it is a moral imperative that all of us should be called to fulfill by our basic humanity.

You don't know that we won't get universal health care by shooting the CEOs of health care companies.

This is just virtue signaling for capitalism and it's fucking lame.

If we oppose terrorist acts, it is only because individual revenge does not satisfy us. The account we have to settle with the capitalist system is too great to be presented to some functionary called a minister. To learn to see all the crimes against humanity, all the indignities to which the human body and spirit are subjected, as the twisted outgrowths and expressions of the existing social system, in order to direct all our energies into a collective struggle against this system—that is the direction in which the burning desire for revenge can find its highest moral satisfaction.

but we haven't tried yet

One healthcare CEO is dead. UHC promptly replaces him and the system goes on as usual.

This is what Luigi did not know, it is near impossible to go after a corporation because its a machine with legal personhood!