Because the US could do a whole lot more?

It’s a popular look!

My point is that he was more than just a cog. He may not have been the sole villain and mastermind, but he was more than just a cog - he was a driver.

He could have done a number of other things. He wasn’t just a cog, he actively drove many of the problems with the health insurance industry today, as the person in control of the most egregious offender.

I’m sure he’ll be replaced with someone similar, and I’m sure he had plenty of encouragement; but that doesn’t make him any less culpable.

It kinda sounds like he did this with at least the bones of a plan. And aren’t silencers relatively easy to improvise, if you don’t need it to last?

Died, disabled, or went through other unnecessary, avoidable pain and suffering. It’s… quite a pool of candidates.

It sounds like he was receiving regular death threats and considered it par for the course.

If the CEO disagrees with the directions of the board, the CEO has a number of options. They can easily be considered culpable.

Per NPR, an annual investor’s conference for their parent company was scheduled to start this morning - https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5215881/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-new-york