The Killing of Brian Thompson and the Human Cost of Healthcare with Jia Tolentino
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it's morgan the ep of the show filling in for nicole this week while she's on mat leave today we're going to talk about health insurance we're talking about this today because on december 4th brian thompson was murdered in midtown manhattan at 6 44 a.m he was 50 years old he played golf and wordle He had two sons. He was also the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance company with the highest rate of claim denials in the industry. So Jia, at what point did you think to yourself, I have to write about this. That's a good question. That's Gia Tolentino. Gia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the New York Times bestselling author of a collection of essays titled Trick Mirror. In an interview on the podcast, We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle, Doyle said that if the news is ever dark or complicated, she asks herself her own version of what would Jesus do, which is what will Gia write about this? And I find myself doing the same thing in moments like this. Gia wrote a piece in The New Yorker about what Brian Thompson's death means to America.
It's an amazing piece, and I linked it in the show notes so you can read it if you haven't already. Here she is on why she wrote it.
I think this has been an incredibly interesting story in part because I don't know if you have felt this within your own sort of group chats versus professional networks, but there's a big difference in the way people are talking about this in private and the way that they're talking about it in public. And that always strikes me as the right situation for someone to try to step in and merge them. I mean, I remember I was covering sexual assault, like, the couple of years pre-Me Too and afterwards, because that felt like, you know, another thing where there was this large social understanding of something being the way that it is, and then with the sort of public discourse lagging behind it, and then an explosive event that tried to merge the two.
And I was interested in that, you know, the mainstream media, of which I am a part, and politicians, everyone was giving these very sort of performatively somber and reverent sort of like, this is an appalling, inexplicable, devastating loss of human life. And then, you know, social media is just full of, you know, the UnitedHealthcare had to close comments on Facebook. And there were thousands and thousands of like, ha ha, cry laugh emoji. It just struck me as really interesting that the reaction was so sharp. Were there any of the sort of memes or...
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