The website in California where consumers can shop for and enroll in health insurance plans that comply with Obamacare sent users’ personal health information to LinkedIn.
Covered California, the state-run marketplace for Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), had a website on which consumers were asked about whether they were blind, pregnant, or used a high number of prescription medications, CalMatters <a href="https://calmatters.org/health/2025/04/covered-california-linkedin-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “Kelly Donohue, a spokesperson for the agency, confirmed that data was sent to LinkedIn as part of an advertising campaign. &#8230; Visitors who filled out health information on the site may have had their data tracked for more than a year, according to Donohue.”
Covered California sending data to a company such as LinkedIn is “concerning and invasive,” Sara Geoghegan, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said, calling it  “wholly irrelevant” for LinkedIn to have the information. “People don’t expect that their health information will be collected and used in this way,” she added.
“LinkedIn is already facing multiple proposed class-action lawsuits related to the collection of medical information,” CalMatters noted. “In October, <a href="https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/lawsuits-accuse-linkedin-tracking-users-health-info-a-26668" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three new lawsuits in California courts alleged</a> that LinkedIn violated users’ privacy by collecting information on medical appointment sites, including for a fertility clinic.”
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), a former candidate for governor, wrote on X, “This is incredibly disturbing. California&#8217;s Obamacare website tracked users&#8217; personal health information – such as pregnancy and prescription drug use – and sent it to LinkedIn for a &#8216;marketing campaign.&#8217; We are asking Secretary Kennedy to investigate for HIPAA violations.”
“Covered California has identified that some sensitive data was inadvertently collected by the tags, including first names, the last four digits of Social Security numbers, and other sensitive health information like pregnancy status. To our knowledge, access to this data was limited to Covered California credentialed users for the limited purpose of managing Covered California’s account,” the agency <a href="https://www.coveredca.com/newsroom/news-releases/2025/04/28/statement-on-data-and-information-sharing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a>.
“Covered California is now the largest state-based health insurance marketplace in the country,” the organization boasts on its <a href="https://www.coveredca.com/marketing-blog/what-is-covered-california/">website</a>. “Over the last decade, we’ve helped reduce the percentage of uninsured adults under the age of 65 from 19.4 percent to just 7.5 percent — well below the national average.”

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Former Washington Post and New York Times tech reporter Taylor Lorenz repeatedly refused to offer outright condemnation of vigilante violence like that allegedly perpetrated by Luigi Mangione against the late UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Lorenz, who faced backlash for her initial reaction to the broad-daylight execution of the insurance executive, joined Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday — and every time he pressed her on the issue, she tried to qualify Thompson&#8217;s murder by suggesting that insurance company policies provoked violence.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenzs-horrible-take-on-suspected-murderer-luigi-mangione-just-got-ten-times-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lorenz</a> sparked outrage when, during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Donie O&#8217;Sullivan, she laughed off the idea that people were becoming &#8220;fans&#8221; of the alleged murderer, saying that he was seen as a &#8220;revolutionary, who&#8217;s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find.&#8221;
She tried to explain her assessment in greater detail to Hannity.
&#8220;What I&#8217;m describing, and if you watch the full segment, not just the clip, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;m just describing the mentality of these fangirls [who] show up outside Luigi&#8217;s court and show up outside his jail cell. Those girls are not me, OK? We have very separate belief systems. But I was describing how they believe,&#8221; she said.
But when Hannity pressed her, several times, to either condemn Mangione&#8217;s alleged actions or others&#8217; calls for assassinations, Lorenz deflected — and at one point, she joked, &#8220;Gosh, you&#8217;re gonna ask if I condemn Hamas next. This is insane!&#8221;
Hannity repeated his prompt several times, but Lorenz continued to pivot, complaining, &#8220;You want to talk about the assassination of innocent people? I believe that the tens of thousands of Americans [who] die each year because of the lack of health insurance. That is, to me, a violence in itself. That is assassination.&#8221;
Hannity tried once more, asking if those cheering on the death of another human being — a husband and a father — lacked &#8220;a soul, a conscience and a heart.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what I will say, Sean, once again, is that I believe in free speech. I don&#8217;t believe in things like, you know, religious things like souls and all of these things.&#8221;

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Taylor Lorenz Refuses To Condemn Luigi Mangione: ‘Gosh, You’re Gonna Ask If I Condemn Hamas Next’

Taylor Lorenz Refuses To Condemn Luigi Mangione: 'Gosh, You're Gonna Ask If I Condemn Hamas Next'

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Former Washington Post and New York Times tech reporter Taylor Lorenz doubled down on her previous comments regarding Luigi Mangione, the man who is charged with the broad-daylight slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Lorenz, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-wapo-reporter-taylor-lorenz-says-united-healthcare-ceos-murder-brought-her-joy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously blasted</a> for saying that she&#8217;d felt &#8220;joy&#8221; when she heard that Thompson had been gunned down — and then, while attempting to walk that back slightly, simultaneously argued that insurance companies that delayed or denied coverage were guilty of murder. &#8220;Maybe not joy, but certainly not — certainly not empathy,&#8221; she said, shocking show host Piers Morgan and her fellow guests.
Lorenz followed that up with an appearance Sunday on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;MisinfoNation&#8221; with host Donie O&#8217;Sullivan, where she laughed off the people who seem obsessed with Mangione and claimed it was because he seemed to be a &#8220;morally good man&#8221; — and mocked the people who were shocked that anyone would look at an alleged murderer as a hero.
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Tonight on MisinfoNation: Extreme American 8p ET and PT on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://t.co/gMKMhdRmnr">https://t.co/gMKMhdRmnr</a> <a href="https://t.co/JZJAJSMcnh">pic.twitter.com/JZJAJSMcnh</a>
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&#8220;To see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America. As if we don’t lionize criminals, as if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows,&#8221; Lorenz began. &#8220;There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.&#8221;
O&#8217;Sullivan pressed her to elaborate, mentioning the women who had even showed up outside the courthouse when Mangione was there.
&#8220;You’re going to see women especially that feel like, Oh my God, right? Like, here’s this man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who is young, who’s smart. He’s a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find,&#8221; Lorenz claimed.
Instead of pushing back, O&#8217;Sullivan joked, &#8220;Yeah, I just realized women will literally date an assassin before they swipe right on me. That’s where we’re at.&#8221;
One point of agreement, for both O&#8217;Sullivan and Lorenz, was their belief that the people raving over Mangione and supporters of President Donald Trump were no different.
&#8220;I totally agree. They want somebody to take on this system. They want someone to tear down these barbaric establishment institutions,&#8221; Lorenz explained.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh was among those who called out both Lorenz and O&#8217;Sullivan, saying, &#8220;Psychotic wench Taylor Lorenz gushes over Luigi Mangione, calls him a &#8216;morally good man,&#8217; and brags that fan-girling a murderer has led to the biggest audience growth she’s ever had. The CNN &#8216;journalist&#8217; sits and laughs along. Just an utterly depraved display all around.&#8221;
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Psychotic wench Taylor Lorenz gushes over Luigi Mangione, calls him a “morally good man,” and brags that fan-girling a murderer has led to the biggest audience growth she’s ever had. The CNN “journalist” sits and laughs along. Just an utterly depraved display all around. <a href="https://t.co/EJkaZNSGEy">https://t.co/EJkaZNSGEy</a>
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Taylor Lorenz’s Horrible Take On Suspected Murderer Luigi Mangione Just Got Ten Times Worse

Taxpayers footed duplicate payments for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid patients across the United States in recent years, totaling up to at least $4.3 billion in waste, according to a Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicaid-double-payments-insurers-states-1c091b41?mod=hp_lead_pos7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> published on Wednesday.
Some of the largest insurance companies in the country — such as Centene, Elevance Health, and UnitedHealth Group — received hundreds of millions of dollars each in duplicate Medicaid payments, the WSJ reported. The duplicate payments occurred after Medicaid beneficiaries moved and began receiving coverage in their new home state without being disenrolled in their previous state. Between 2019 and 2021, states, which are primarily responsible for Medicaid, made duplicate payments for around 660,000 patients each year.
According to the WSJ, over 270 insurers received duplicate payments. In all duplicate payments from 2019 to 2021, Centene received $620 million, Elevance got $346 million, and UnitedHealth Group received $298 million. The massive taxpayer waste uncovered by the WSJ was highlighted by Trump senior adviser Elon Musk, who has focused on cleaning up excessive government spending and slashing the budgets of numerous federal agencies.
&#8220;These are examples of medical fraud that the @DOGE team will fix,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905067621445497050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X, sharing a link to the Wall Street Journal article.
A spokeswoman for the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency told the WSJ that the feds are working with states to address the wasteful spending.
“Paying for a beneficiary’s Medicaid coverage in one state when that individual is already enrolled in a different state is a prime example of taxpayer dollars being mismanaged,” the spokeswoman said.
Duplicate payments drastically increased following the COVID pandemic when the federal government instituted new rules making it harder for states to disenroll Medicaid beneficiaries. In 2019, duplicate payments totaled $814 million, and in 2021, that amount increased to $2.1 billion. While states are in charge of administering Medicaid benefits within the federal guidelines, a spokeswoman for the Florida Medicaid program told the WSJ that the federal government is the only entity that has &#8220;full visibility&#8221; into duplicate enrollments.
Insurance company Centene said that it is required to continue coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries until a state disenrolls them. A message sent from a Centene supervisor to staff in February stated, “Please DO NOT close cases when you learn a member has moved out of state. If the member shows eligible and are out of state, they can still can [sic] utilize some of the benefits.”
States with some of the highest duplicate Medicaid payments included Florida, Georgia, and Indiana. In Georgia, six out of every 1,000 Medicaid payments went to cover the costs of someone who was already getting their medical bills paid for in another state.
Musk, though technically not the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, is widely viewed as the one calling the shots for President Donald Trump&#8217;s cost-cutting initiative. The DOGE team has already accessed systems at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where Musk <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-health-data-cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that &#8220;big money fraud is happening.&#8221;

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Popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God weighed in on the recent murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and the lack of sympathy that followed from a number of his critics — and said that he couldn&#8217;t wrap his brain around the people who were celebrating Thompson&#8217;s death.
Charlemagne noted that whatever problems there are in the health insurance industry in the United States, very little was likely to be done to fix them because of this one brutal execution-style murder — and that in addition to the people suffering because of those problems, Thompson&#8217;s family would now also suffer as his children were raised without a father.
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Charlamagne discussed the topic on Friday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Breakfast Club,&#8221; and he reached a simple conclusion: &#8220;It&#8217;s just weird to what where we are the people.&#8221;
&#8220;All I see is a father walking in New York City to go his job,&#8221; Charlamagne said. &#8220;He got gunned down.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t understand why people are celebrating him being killed because at the end of the day, like I said yesterday, he’s dead. His kids don’t got no father,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That 26-year-old Luigi or whatever his name is, he gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. And the healthcare system is still the same today. The health companies still denying claims and everything today. So what did that accomplish, and why are you happy about him being gunned down like that?&#8221;
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Former Washington Post tech reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-wapo-reporter-taylor-lorenz-says-united-healthcare-ceos-murder-brought-her-joy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Lorenz</a> was among those effectively celebrating the broad-daylight assassination, shocking host Piers Morgan when she said on his show that she had actually felt &#8220;joy&#8221; upon learning of Thompson&#8217;s demise.
&#8220;I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that’s why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know because —” Lorenz said.
“Joy?” Morgan interrupted at the time, his voice incredulous. “Seriously? Joy at a man’s execution?”
“— it feels like … maybe not joy, but certainly not — certainly not empathy,” Lorenz continued. “Because again, this is a man responsible —”
Lorenz went on to justify her response by claiming that Thompson was responsible for the deaths of &#8220;tens of thousands of Americans — innocent Americans — who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people.&#8221;

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A woman in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> was charged by police this week for allegedly threatening her health insurance company after they denied a claim.
The Lakeland Police Department was contacted by the FBI on Tuesday about the threat that 42-year-old Briana Boston allegedly made to BlueCross BlueShield after they denied a recent claim.
WFLA <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/lakeland-woman-threatens-insurance-company-says-delay-deny-depose-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that at the end of the recorded phone call, Boston could allegedly be heard saying: “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.”
&#8220;Delay, Deny, Depose,&#8221; were the same words that an assassin allegedly wrote on the shell casings of the three 9mm bullets that were used to murder UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.
The arrest affidavit noted the words have quickly come to be widely recognized as a threat “directed against insurance companies.”
“She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” said Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.
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When law enforcement questioned her at her home, she allegedly admitting to making the statement and said that “healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil.”
She admitted to using the phrase “because it’s what is in the news right now,” but claimed she was not a danger because she did not own firearms.
“She readily admitted that, ‘Yeah that’s exactly what I said but I didn’t mean anything by it,’” said Taylor. “Well, you don’t get to pull that back after you say it.”
She was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.
The judge in the case set bond to $100,000, citing &#8220;the status of our country at this point.&#8221;

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Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, was not insured by Thompson&#8217;s company, according to the health insurer&#8217;s owner, UnitedHealth Group.
UnitedHealth Group, the largest healthcare organization in the U.S., said it has no record of 26-year-old Mangione being a client, NBC News <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/suspect-in-ceo-s-killing-was-not-insured-by-unitedhealthcare-company-says/ar-AA1vLW3U?apiversion=v2&amp;noservercache=1&amp;domshim=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The suspected assassin allegedly mentioned &#8220;United&#8221; in a manifesto raging about the health insurance industry before Thompson was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan on December 4. New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told NBC News that Mangione &#8220;possibly&#8221; targeted UnitedHealthcare because of its size.
“We have no indication that he was ever a client of United Healthcare, but he does make mention that it is the fifth-largest corporation in America, which would make it the largest healthcare organization in America,” Kenny said. “So that’s possibly why he targeted that company.”
According to Kenny, Mangione seemingly sustained &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-member-targeted-company-size-influence-nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a life-changing injury</a>&#8221; in July 2023, which caused him to go to the emergency room. After turning 26, Mangione would have been forced off his parents&#8217; health insurance if he was not already covered under his own plan. Fox Business <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-member-targeted-company-size-influence-nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Mangione&#8217;s mother was also not a member of UnitedHealthcare.
&#8220;He posted X-rays of screws being inserted into his spine,&#8221; Kenny said. &#8220;So, the injury that he suffered was, was a life-changing, life-altering injury, and that&#8217;s what may have put him on this path.&#8221;
Reddit posts reportedly authored by Mangione in 2023 convey that the suspect was pleased with a back surgery he said he underwent, and said that it relieved him of his chronic pain, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-back-surgery-mental-health-35086d2e01089f53db7b95e7b6c683e4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. In the posts, Mangione even encouraged others struggling with similar issues to consider surgery. Mangione reportedly lost touch with family members and friends around six months ago.
The suspected assassin&#8217;s mother filed a missing persons report with San Francisco police just weeks before Thompson was killed in New York City, the San Francisco Standard <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/09/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-sfpd-missing-person-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Mangione worked in San Francisco for a short time before moving to Honolulu, Hawaii. In social media posts, he also referenced visiting Japan earlier this year. San Francisco police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-police-identified-suspect-in-brian-thompson-murder-days-before-he-was-caught" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> Mangione as the person of interest sought by the NYPD four days before he was identified after his arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, sources told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/luigi-mangione-sfpd-identification-19976578.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
A spiral notebook authorities say was found on Mangione when he was arrested. It includes a passage where the writer mentions taking out “the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention.”
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“It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” Mangione allegedly wrote in the notebook.
Shell casings found at the scene of the assassination had the words &#8220;delay,&#8221; &#8220;deny,&#8221; and &#8220;depose&#8221; written on them. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Wednesday that a water bottle and Kind snack bar wrapper recovered by police near the crime scene contained fingerprints that match those of Mangione. Tisch also noted that three shell casings recovered at the scene of the crime matched the homemade gun found on Mangione when he was arrested.

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San Francisco police identified the man accused of assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week several days before he was caught at a McDonald&#8217;s in Pennsylvania.
The news comes as authorities claimed that 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was not previously on law enforcement&#8217;s radar when he was arrested on Monday after a customer at the fast food restaurant recognized him based on photos that had been released by police last week.
Sources <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/luigi-mangione-sfpd-identification-19976578.php">told</a> the San Francisco Chronicle that an officer in the San Francisco Police Department&#8217;s Special Victims Unit recognized Mangione on December 5 as being the person in the photos released by law enforcement.
The officer recognized him because his family contacted the department to report that he had gone missing after they had not heard from him for several months.
The unit reported his identity to the FBI on December 5, the report said, the very day that the photos were released.
It was not clear how the information was passed to the FBI or if the FBI received or acted upon it, the report added.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/luigi-mangione-gunman-united-healthcare-shooting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g04.hAiC.LxJNptYsw1fr&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">reported</a> late on Thursday that the suspect disappeared from family and friends over the summer after deciding to go on a lengthy trip to Asia.
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During the trip he reportedly expressed alarm over how people have become over reliant on things like smart phones and social media, the report said. He also bemoaned capitalism and loved the writings of terrorist Ted Kaczynski, commonly known as the &#8220;Unabomber.&#8221;
Authorities found a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/notebook-found-on-luigi-mangione-describes-assassination-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-reports">notebook</a> on him after he was arrested that included a passage where the writer mentions taking out “the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention.” Thompson was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan on December 4 while he was on his way to the UnitedHealth Group’s Investor’s Conference.
“It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,” Mangione allegedly wrote in the notebook. The suspect considered using a bomb but wrote in his notebook that it “could kill innocents,” CNN reported. According to authorities, Mangione was also in possession of a 262-word manifesto where he allegedly called out “United” and wrote, “To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone.”
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Wednesday that a water bottle and Kind snack bar wrapper recovered by police near the crime scene contained fingerprints that match those of Mangione. Tisch also noted that three shell casings recovered at the scene of the crime matched the homemade gun found on Mangione when he was arrested. The 9mm shell casings from the scene of Thompson’s assassination had the words “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” written on them, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. It was initially reported that the words on the shell casings were “defend,” “deny,” and “depose” before police clarified.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed this week that the denying health insurance claims was &#8220;an act of violence&#8221; similar to the health insurance CEO who was assassinated in New York City last week.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks on Capitol Hill while speaking to a reporter from CBS News about the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
&#8220;I think that this collective American experience — which is so twisted to have in the wealthiest nation in the world — all of that pain that people have experienced is being concentrated on this event,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s really important that we take a step back — this is not to comment, and this is not to say that an act of violence is justified — but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.
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&#8220;People go homeless over the financial devastation of a diagnosis that doesn’t get addressed or, you know, the amount that they’re gonna have to cover with a surprise bill and things like that,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And when we kind of talk about how systems are violent in this country in this passive way, our privatized health care system is like that for a huge amount of Americans.&#8221;
She then claimed that she did not have health insurance until she got elected to Congress as she complained about having had to &#8220;sit in a free clinic&#8221; in the past for medical care.
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AOC to <a href="https://twitter.com/BrownJaala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrownJaala</a> on the murder of Brian Thompson
“This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that ppl interpret and feel &amp; experience denied claims as an act of violence&#8230;” <a href="https://t.co/52aIINUDlH">pic.twitter.com/52aIINUDlH</a>
— Alan He (@alanhe) <a href="https://twitter.com/alanhe/status/1867274875859349565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>

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I used to enjoy Bill Burr’s work.
On occasion, I still do. He&#8217;s a comedian, which means he&#8217;s very hit or miss. Once upon a time, I was such a fan that I actually bought tickets for me, my wife, and two of my friends to go see him.
It turned out to be one of the worst shows I have ever seen in my life because Burr has become woke. Over time, I think he became embarrassed that many people on the Right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.
The show I saw was so bad that he got frustrated with the audience. The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes were basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti-gay racists. And Floridians reacted badly because that&#8217;s not true. There are a lot of gay people who live in Florida and many Hispanics, blacks, and Jews live there as well.
He ended up cutting his show early and walking off the stage. The reason was, he was totally disconnected from the audience.
That disconnect has continued. Not long ago, he appeared on Bill Maher&#8217;s show where he declared solidarity with the pro-Hamas students on campuses.
Now, he is proclaiming he is very happy that CEOs are walking around in fear for their lives.
We tend to give comedians more leeway to say edgy things because they’re trying to be funny.
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But it&#8217;s not clear to me that Burr is attempting to be funny. This week, he explained that he is perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full-time security because they fear they might be shot. Because, after all, they are murderers too.
Burr openly cheered the murder of the UnitedHealthcare executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don&#8217;t act in the way that he would have them act — in a system that he has no fixes for, by the way.
He <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/bill-burr-explains-why-hes-ok-with-ceos-fearing-for-their-lives-after-ny-shooting-a-lot-of-you-are-mass-murderers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
<blockquote>You know what’s annoying me about this kid who killed this CEO? None of these news programs are talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they at their most vulnerable, after we’ve all given them our money every f***ing month, and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us…
You know, I gotta be honest with you, OK? I love that f***ing CEOs are fucking afraid right now. You should be! By and large, you’re all a bunch of selfish greedy f***ing pieces of s***; and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just don’t pull the trigger. That’s why it looks clean.</blockquote>
What he said is truly evil. He&#8217;s saying you should live in fear if you&#8217;re the CEO of a company that does things that Burr deems to be bad or wrong.
Now, we have laws on the books, for example, that prevent crimes like fraud and embezzlement. We have laws on the books that punish criminal activity. If you don&#8217;t like the system, and many people don&#8217;t, the proper response to that system would be legislation. In a democratic republic, the way to fix problems is to have open discussions of the details of those problems and then craft regulatory or legal fixes.
You do not say that it is a good thing that CEOs should live in fear of their lives because Burr deems them morally inferior.
Bill Burr’s blue collar class routine act is a bunch of horses***. The man is worth $14 million, and he makes his money creating crap movies for Netflix at this point. If we&#8217;re going to have a functioning country, you can&#8217;t justify the murder of people who run their businesses legally in ways with which you disagree.
It is one thing to disagree with executives. You can call them whatever you want. But to start justifying that they should live in fear or suggesting that they should be murdered? What is the limiting principle here?
The alleged shooter in this case was echoing Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The Unabomber suggested that if you were, for example, an oil executive, maybe you should be murdered, because after all, there were externalities to the oil industry.
Why not the banking industry? Maybe Burr doesn&#8217;t like the banks. After all, that bank denied grandma her loan. So, with his logic, maybe the CEO of the bank should be tracked down and murdered.
This is full-stop evil. It is evil. I don&#8217;t care what complaints exist with the health insurance company, the notion that the solution to those complaints is the murder of the executives is sick. If you were living in a tyrannical society with no legal correctives or alternatives in terms of Medicaid — which does exist — and no alternatives in terms of other health insurance programs, then an argument could be made for there to be a full-scale monarchic tyranny.
But that&#8217;s not the system in which we live. And promulgating that lie leads to greater violence. It leads to justification of all violence.
It&#8217;s not just Bill Burr. It is also Jimmy Kimmel, who decided last night to devote an entire segment celebrating the good looks of the alleged shooter. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-laughs-shares-staffers-texts-about-ceo-killer-being-hot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, 
<blockquote>So many women and so many men are going nuts over how good-looking this killer is. There’s a huge wave of horny washing over us right now. It’s like when one of the guys you work with says, ‘I had a dream about you last night.’ When it’s the FedEx guy with the big muscles and the rolled-up sleeves, you’re like, ‘Ohh.’ But if it’s the bald IT guy wearing Crocs with black socks, you’re on the phone with HR.</blockquote>
He continued:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s kinda that same dynamic. … I have never experienced anything like this. These are screengrabs of actual exchanges between our members of our staff and their friends, relatives, whatever.
I&#8217;ve changed the names to protect the guilty. Lorraine C. asks, “Do you guys think the United Health Care Co killer is hot?” Friend replies, Yes, I love Luigi. I think he&#8217;s gay though. … And one more from a young woman in our segment department. “Texting all my friends in New York that I hope they get called to jury duty.” “God, I want to do jury duty so bad.”</blockquote>
Hilarious, hilarious stuff. Glorifying the alleged murderer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
What a delight these people are.

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sunny-hostin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> appeared to excuse the violent, execution-style murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, arguing that the United States was &#8220;built on violence&#8221; and claiming that the violence, at least in this case, was &#8220;justified.&#8221;
Hostin joined her cohosts on Wednesday’s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, and while they all agreed that there is room for improvement in the health insurance industry, the others at least were adamant that violence was not the best way to address the problems in the system.
“The vast majority of Americans want the healthcare industry fixed. But I got to tell you, murdering someone is not the way to do it,” Whoopi Goldberg said.
Joy Behar agreed, saying, “Doesn&#8217;t justify killing anybody to me anyway. I think it&#8217;s a very stupid idea, bad idea&#8230;Voting good, murder bad.”
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Behar goes on to claim that it&#39;s part of the &quot;American idea that only rich people can afford to get sick.&quot; The View doesn&#39;t address that UnitedHealthcare in the largest insurer through ObamaCare. <a href="https://t.co/iplRTGu9VJ">pic.twitter.com/iplRTGu9VJ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866879376760942710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines also roundly condemned not only the alleged shooter, but those who were cheerleading his actions and suggesting that Thompson deserved what had happened.
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“Check in with someone&#8230;you need to look at yourself,” she said.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin rips the shooter and says he didn&#39;t provide a solution anywhere in his 2-page manifesto. She calls out liberals who denounce they system while being part of it and not doing anything. It triggered Behar: &quot;Why go after 2 liberals?!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/vyu0Y9fOr0">pic.twitter.com/vyu0Y9fOr0</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866881884875043041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It was Hostin who went all in to excuse the alleged shooter’s actions, complaining that she expected no different from a country that was “built on violence.”
“Only about 31% of Americans trust our healthcare system,” Hostin said, adding that the current system is bad for doctors as well as patients.
She then pivoted to push back on people who said that violence was not a reflection of America, adding, “This country was built on violence. We&#8217;re a very violent country … And so, I&#8217;m not, unfortunately, surprised people are celebrating the use of violence … violence is justified right now.”
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Whoopi flaunts her profound ignorance of how health insurance payouts work. She whines: &quot;If I don&#39;t go to the hospital for a whole year, where is my money? Why don&#39;t you give me the money back?&quot; Where do you think the money to pay for customers&#39; bills comes from Whoopi? <a href="https://t.co/czH4jn6BlR">pic.twitter.com/czH4jn6BlR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866885417103950196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg concluded the segment with a complaint about how the system works, arguing that if she didn’t use the benefits, she should get her money back from the insurance company.

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'Violence Is Justified': Sunny Hostin Excuses CEO Killer, Says 'This Country Was Built On Violence'

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a &#8220;warning,&#8221; suggesting that such action would not be isolated if things did not change.
Warren spoke to HuffPost about the execution-style murder that took place in New York — for which Luigi Mangione has been arrested — and she addressed the fact that many had expressed support for the alleged killer and no sympathy for the victim.
&#8220;The visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system,&#8221; Warren told the outlet.
&#8220;Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.&#8221;
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POLITICO&#8217;s Jonathan Martin called Warren out in a post on X, saying, &#8220;Maybe don’t use murder as opening for your political messaging and leave it at &#8216;answer,'&#8221; he said before sharing her direct quote: &#8220;Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far. This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in …&#8221;
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Maybe don’t use murder as opening for your political messaging and leave it at “answer”
“Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” she said. “This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in… <a href="https://t.co/h2kP1jSgZV">https://t.co/h2kP1jSgZV</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Martin (@jmart) <a href="https://twitter.com/jmart/status/1866864427451949127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Massachusetts Dem. Sen. Elizabeth Warren makes an excuse for the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. I do not believe one Democrat not named Fetterman has condemned this murder,&#8221; conservative pundit Carmine Sabia added.
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Massachusetts Dem. Sen. Elizabeth Warren makes an excuse for the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
I do not believe one Democrat not named Fetterman has condemned this murder. <a href="https://t.co/OkZ793Rmh3">https://t.co/OkZ793Rmh3</a>
&mdash; Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1866889937578328547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-sewer-is-going-to-sewer-fetterman-rips-social-media-cheering-unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) called out the violence, condemning it without equivocation or qualification. &#8220;He’s the a**hole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer &#8230; Remember, he has two children that are going to grow up without their father… It’s vile. And if you’ve gunned someone down that you don’t happen to agree with their views or the business that they’re in, hey, you know, I’m next, they’re next, he’s next, she’s next.&#8221;

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