Reason Magazine
•The people cheering Brian Thompson’s murder can’t have the medical utopia that they want
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Police arrested Luigi Mangione in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson .
The haters want a single-payer medical system that satisfies every desire.
The problem, no matter how health care is delivered, is that it requires labor, time, and resources that are available in finite supply.
Canada 's single-payer system famously relies heavily on long wait times to ration care.
Cato's Singer : "Key to 'affordable health care' is not to increase the role of health insurance in peoples' lives, but to diminish it.
Thompson : Making people more responsible for their own health care is far better than cheering murder of people who stand between us and an imaginary medical utopia.
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