A masked gunman shot and killed the CEO of the country's largest health insurance company

A masked gunman shot and killed the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Healthcare , the country's largest insurer, on a public street in Manhattan and escaped.

The Left 's obsession with federalizing healthcare was the root cause of the killing, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Until Barack Obama came on the national scene, the healthcare issue was significant, but no practical solution had emerged.

The Left engineered the creation of bureaucratic monopolies in the healthcare industry obsessed with regulating products and an addiction to deficit spending, throwing money away to keep the Obamacare boondoggle alive.

The Left has no moral standing to protest high prices and poor service and denied claims for the vast majority of people - because they caused the problem.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was at entrance to residential block when device hidden in electric scooter went off.

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