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How exactly will targeted assassinations of stuffed suits running healthcare companies lead to progress towards universal healthcare?

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Well, today BCBS rolled back their plan to limit anesthesia, which is a similar policy to one UHR recently launched: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/blue-cross-blue-shield-anes...

tbh I'm more interested to see if it changes the arguments around gun control.

It won’t because it’s cheaper to hire security than to lobby for gun control.

I don’t know if you remember this story [1] but that didn’t do it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shoot...

Because 1 executive is gunned down? How many poor unknowns out on the streets get gunned down routinely? Is his life worth more?

In terms of being able to affect political change, yes. If the wealthy were targeted in assassinations using firearms, the 2nd amendment would mean very little. When the political will of the country is reflected in a small group of people it becomes increasingly possible to affect politics by affecting that group.

This is a bizarre take, pretty clearly out of step with who cares about the 2nd amendment.

I'm referencing this paper[1]. Once a problem affects this group, it has a much higher chance at changing policy.

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

This is what I was thinking. You can kill thousands of schoolkids and nothing will change, but gun down a few CEO's and suddenly there'll be hard conversations about control.

Electoral politics haven't worked, so here we are. Healthcare bankruptcy is the leading form of bankruptcy in the United States.

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