UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Manhattan [breaking news: 2024-12-04]

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Reminder, this is the breaking news thread.

@Broomstick

50 years ago - “Medicare for all” was proposed as far back as the Nixon administration (then Watergate derailed a lot of stuff that might have otherwise happened).

@Zoobi

Ad long as Republicans exist and keep getting voted into office, universal health care will never ever ever happen. If you voted Republican or supported Republicans in your past you can look at yourself in the mirror when trying to find someone to blame.

Your bloodthirsty fantasies aren’t going to do anything.

@RickJay

Look, if you want murders to just be a thing people encourage because they don’t like some element of public policy, I wish you well. It’s not going to turn out the way you were hoping

@LSLGuy

As mentioned upthread, Nixon of all people was in the process of extending Medicare to everyone when Watergate intervened.

Republicans then and now are very different parties. Dems too, but the R’s have had a brain-ectomy and been turned into Beelzebub, while Ds now are simply much of what Rs used to be then.

These would all be better in the companion political thread.