Has CEO Killer Luigi Mangione Become American Hero? - Thom Hartmann

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CEOs across the nation are doubling up on security in the wake of Brian Thompson’s assassination.

It’s not an exaggeration to point out that Americans’ hatred of health insurance executives today is right up there with my mother’s generation’s hatred of bankers in the 1930s.

There’s barely an American family that doesn’t have a horror story of being denied essential healthcare because a giant insurance company refused to pay a claim or authorize a procedure, test, or medication.

Which explains why Luigi Mangione is now a folk hero: He’s the John Dillinger of this generation. - Aired on 12/12/2024.