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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:58:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:56:54 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> On 12/11/24 00:53, Charles Packer wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/10/24 13:04, quadibloc wrote:
>>>> A few days ago, I had read in the news that the CEO of a major health
>>>> insurer was gunned down. This was shocking; it seemed to mean that no
>>>> one was safe from crime.
>>>
>>> 	Actually it was a targeted assasination.
>>> 	The killer had suffered a back injury and ended up
>>> with lots of titanium screws holding his spine together.
>>>
>>> 	I do not know exactly the beef he had but the
>>> business of Health Insurance did not help the excutive's case with
>>> Luigi Mangione.
>>> 	
>>>
>>> The solution which is unlikely to happen with the incoming
>>> admiistration is Basic Assured Income and Universal Healthcare.
>> 
>> When that story hit the news I looked forward to the naming of the
>> suspect. Ah, the allegorical aspects. A very English name murdered by a
>> very Italian one. Hasn't there been some kind of beef for a while
>> between the two most ancient institutions of Western civilization?
>> 
>> 
> 	Now from what I hear Luigi had a beef because of a
> painful pre-existing back condition not because of the old opposition
> between Northern and Southern Europe.
> 
>

At least some journalists have gone down an allegorical path
with this story, using the lives of the protagonists
rather than vicissitudes of health care. From the front page of 
the Washington Post: "As Mangione's once-charmed life
seemed to be crumbling, Brian Thompson's fortunes appeared to
be climbing."