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2024-12-16 06:10:05 UTC
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew backlash online over remarks he made over
the weekend about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Sanders made the remarks during a Sunday NBC News interview with Kristen
Welker on Meet The Press when asked about remarks from Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-MA), who responded to the assassination by saying you can only
push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own
hands.
Is this the right time in the wake of this horrific murder to be talking
about health care policy? Welker asked.
Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting
somebody in the back is totally unacceptable, he said. But what I think
has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up
is peoples 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.
So, killing anybody, shooting somebody in the back who was the father of
two, is outrageous. And its unacceptable. Nobody, nobody should applaud
it, he continued. I know Senator Warren did not. But 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 10 years shorter than the
people on top?
He said that he felt very strongly about this and that it was long
overdue for us to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child,
especially at a time when were spending twice as much per capita on
health care as the people of every other nation.
The goal of health care is not to make drug companies and insurance
companies phenomenally rich, it is to guarantee quality care to all of our
people, he added.
Republican strategist Matt Whitlock fired back on X: The shooter had
severe mental health issues he was practically foaming at the mouth
screaming at the courthouse.
That wont stop Democrats from trying to use him to make a point, he
added.
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., responded to the clip by highlighting the far-
left extremist who shot up a congressional baseball practice in 2017.
Remember that it was Bernies rhetoric that helped motivate the
Congressional baseball shooter, he wrote. He still has learned nothing.
Republican strategist Steve Guest said that Sanders remarks were part of
a pattern of top Democrats justifying murder.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-insurance-ceo-murdered-
because-of-anger-at-companys-profits
the weekend about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Sanders made the remarks during a Sunday NBC News interview with Kristen
Welker on Meet The Press when asked about remarks from Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-MA), who responded to the assassination by saying you can only
push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own
hands.
Is this the right time in the wake of this horrific murder to be talking
about health care policy? Welker asked.
Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting
somebody in the back is totally unacceptable, he said. But what I think
has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up
is peoples 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.
So, killing anybody, shooting somebody in the back who was the father of
two, is outrageous. And its unacceptable. Nobody, nobody should applaud
it, he continued. I know Senator Warren did not. But 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 10 years shorter than the
people on top?
He said that he felt very strongly about this and that it was long
overdue for us to guarantee health care to every man, woman and child,
especially at a time when were spending twice as much per capita on
health care as the people of every other nation.
The goal of health care is not to make drug companies and insurance
companies phenomenally rich, it is to guarantee quality care to all of our
people, he added.
Republican strategist Matt Whitlock fired back on X: The shooter had
severe mental health issues he was practically foaming at the mouth
screaming at the courthouse.
That wont stop Democrats from trying to use him to make a point, he
added.
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., responded to the clip by highlighting the far-
left extremist who shot up a congressional baseball practice in 2017.
Remember that it was Bernies rhetoric that helped motivate the
Congressional baseball shooter, he wrote. He still has learned nothing.
Republican strategist Steve Guest said that Sanders remarks were part of
a pattern of top Democrats justifying murder.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-insurance-ceo-murdered-
because-of-anger-at-companys-profits