Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that the reaction to the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson shows “people's anger” at the insurance industry. said.
“You can only push people so far, and then they start taking matters into their own hands,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on MSNBC.
Warren later said: “Violence is never the answer. We should have made it clearer that murder can never be justified.”
“Elizabeth Warren clearly understands that killing people and shooting people in the back is totally unacceptable,” Sanders said. But what I think has happened in recent months is that people are increasingly angry with the health insurance industry for making billions of dollars in profits while denying people the health care services they so desperately need. That's it. ”
“But when we talk about health care, we need to ask ourselves: Why is our country the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care for everyone? Why is our average life expectancy so low? I think the question is whether it is significantly lower than the rest of the world.” Why do working class people die 5-10 years earlier than people at the top in other countries? I feel very strongly about this. Guaranteed health care for every man, woman, and child is overdue, especially at a time when we spend twice as much per capita on health care as the citizens of other countries. ”
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