Ocasio-Cortez Has A Blunt Message For Those ‘Confused Or Shocked’ By CEO Shooting – “Health care in this country has gotten to such a depraved state that people are living with things they should never have to live with,” the congresswoman said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-denied-claims-act-violence_n_675bf527e4b04193d18265ce
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If only the whole party were like her.
So few are making any sense in our federal government. AOC is one who looks to have a common sense head on her shoulders.
From the article:
“Ocasio-Cortez, who noted that Americans’ collective “pain” is being “concentrated” on the shooting, said people go homeless as a result of “the financial devastation of a diagnosis that doesn’t get addressed or the amount they’re going to have to cover with a surprise bill.”
“And when we kind of talk about how systems are violent in this country in this passive way, our privatized [health care](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/health-care) system is like that for a huge amount of Americans,” explained Ocasio-Cortez, who noted that she didn’t have health insurance until she was elected to Congress.
She later continued, “Health care in this country has gotten to such a depraved state that people are living with things they should never have to live with. And this is not to say and this is not to participate in that glorification but we need to understand that extreme levels of inequality in the United States yield high degrees of social instability.””
When you make peaceful protest impossible…..
Some health insurance CEO: *Have those people tried, perhaps…just dying?*
AOC for President in 2028!
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. In the same way those who possess wealth and power in poor nations must accept their own responsibilities. They must lead the fight for those basic reforms which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies.”
-President John F. Kennedy, 1962
The leading cause of homelessness in the US is due to an inability to pay medical bills. Meanwhile, united healthcare made almost 100 billion this year in revenue, while denying over 30% of healthcare claims.
I don’t condone violence, but I cannot be surprised at the turn of events. Either health insurance corporations will find a way to take care of the American people, or they’ll find their own solutions.
She’s gotta get that leadership position.
It’s a shame Dems refuse to embrace the younger more energetie and closer to reality members of their party
AOC without support is a force. Imagine if the Dems actually embraced her
let’s go on and add polio to that list.
We need to be in the streets of DC. what in the fuck are we doing? We need to start planning a general strike **now**.
Soon they can live with polio too!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is absolutely right, and her words come from a place of understanding and compassion. Let’s be honest—our healthcare system is a disaster. It’s broken in ways that force people to live with pain, fear, and frustration they should never have to endure. And when people feel like they’re out of options, when they’re up against a system that values profits over their lives, that anger builds. It doesn’t justify violence—nothing does—but it’s impossible to ignore the desperation that so many Americans feel.
Think about it: how many stories have we heard about people losing their homes because of medical debt? Or being denied life-saving care by insurance companies? Or rationing insulin because they can’t afford it? These aren’t just “flaws” in the system—they’re failures that ruin lives. And AOC is calling it what it is: a depraved system that’s been allowed to put corporate greed over human well-being for far too long.
What she’s saying isn’t about excusing what happened; it’s about addressing why so many people are at their breaking point. She’s not condoning violence—she’s highlighting the inhumanity of a system that leaves people feeling helpless and invisible. And she’s right to do it because if we don’t talk about the root of the problem, nothing will ever change.
AOC’s message is a wake-up call. It’s a reminder that healthcare should be about healing people, not squeezing them for profit. She cares about the people stuck in this system, and she’s demanding that we do better. If we want to stop tragedies like this from happening, we have to fix the system that’s driving people to their limits. And that starts with listening to the truth she’s telling us.
For president! If only ‘murica wasn’t a bunch of mysoginists
This should be the core of any democrats next campaign.
I went a week without my insulin. I should’ve died. The damage from that will lead to an amputation or me going blind.
The CEO of Ely lily did that to me.
Is anyone REALLY shocked? or just pandering. I betting on corporate pandering
I think she is wrong. They aren’t living with their conditions. They are dead because of their conditions.
I know these are companies, and they’re main purpose is to maximize profits, but why does that have to be the case? Why can’t they make enough profit to improve themselves, grow, and have something for a rainy day, but still provide enough quality and quantity of service so their customers can live healthy, fulfilling, productive lives?
I feel like politics are in a depraved state also, so I assume she is okay with that mindset.
And dying from things they should not die from.
AOC’s logical mindset shared by 90% of the country will be labeled as “radical”
Like multiple Lear jets?
It’s almost as if combing healthcare with hardcore capitalism is a bad idea. Nothing will change.
Get out of her way, Pelosi!
The “Governor” of “The State of Canada” would like a word….
When they have nothing, they also have nothing to lose.
The Fox News comment section would say she’s a terrorist for saying that.
She’s not wrong !
Keep up the pressure on these horrible corporate fascists and there elite shareholders. Also press our weak kneed Democratic Party to fights with us vs taking the graft.
Absolutely. But a lot of things have absolutely nothing to do with healthcare. Like Trump for example, MAGA cultists. And that is only the tip of the iceberg called USA, never mind all the other icebergs out there.
The healthcare industry makes BILLIONS year after year by screwing American citizens. They can all burn as far as I’m concerned.
The reason people hate US health insurance is because the dysfunction is so pervasive that it cannot be the result of mere negligence or incompetence. It takes actual malice for things to get this bad. It requires conscious effort on the part of insurance executives to create a system that takes so much, gives back so little, and provides such obviously illegitimate excuses for their failures.
It’s easier to obtain a gun legally than coverage for a health condition in the US.
The Confusion:
“Why are the poors angry at us? Are the politicians dropping the ball on making them fight each other about the browns and the gays?”