I'm really surprised that we don't see violent action like this from terminal patients who have nothing to lose.
I think it's a really good open question as to why more unhinged Americans do school shootings than healthcare insurance executive shootings.
I'd love to read a sociology paper on it.
When you have an event like this, with the overwhelmingly positive reception by regular people, and within 24 hours BCBS rolls back a plan that has been years in the making to limit anesthesia during surgery, it shows two things:
1) murdering people who themselves murder people is not really socially unacceptable
2) direct action works in ways that the system does not
Maybe that changes the status quo a little, who knows?