I don't care where he went to school or what his job was. I don't care what philosophy books he was reading on goodreads, or who he voted for, or what podcasts he listened to.
I don't care if he consumed anticapitalist material or right wing material in his teens and early twenties. I don't care because I don't think that actually matters to his story at all.
Here's what's important to me. He was 26 years old (a curious year to be mad at a healthcare official wouldn't you think?). And he lost loved ones to illness and most of all, that he had major back surgery.
No social media post, podcast, or political ideology book can impact a person, especially a young person more than the chickens of these horrible companies coming home to roost in your face. He might have been reading Ayn Rand when this back surgery happened, you think he cared about what she had to say when his insurance denied all his claims and left him to suffer in deep chronic physical pain?
Does it matter what Fox News or Joe Rogan says when your spouse is dying of cancer and you are waist deep in medical debt because insurance found loopholes to resist helping you? Does it matter that you are a registered libertarian when you have to watch your child suffer in pain even though you have insurance, because they won't pay for lifesaving drugs?
"that doesn't mean you kill people!" No, it doesn't. But spare me fake sympathy for a man who profited from the suffering of death of so many others. All these insurance execs know what they are doing. "that doesn't mean you kill people" goes both ways, no? Perhaps insurance execs would do well to remember that same platitude when deciding to deny claim after claim for money...
you don't have to be an avowed anticapitalist or even a leftist to know that something is horribly depraved about our healthcare system. You just have to be someone who has been on the other end of it.