A father-of-two is shot in cold blood and yet the alleged shooter becomes a folk hero. Is this the new class warfare and, if it is, is Australia immune?
The murder last week of 50-year-old Brian Thompson, CEO of US health insurer UnitedHealthcare, at dawn on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan was greeted with – no other word for it – glee by many.
That may not be how the alleged murderer saw it, evidently. Engraved on the bullet casings, from a so-called ghost gun, were the words too often found in correspondence from health insurers to their customers : deny and delay. Those words echoed the title of an influential 2010 book about predatory insurance company practices by Rutgers emeritus law professor Jay M. Feinman:
ACOSS chief executive Cassandra Goldie says the government must understand the system affects hundreds of thousands of people who are at risk of deprivation, suicide, and poverty. Ben Spies-Butcher, associate professor of economy and society at Macquarie University, promises me that the US situation, where money is extorted from those in very precarious situations under the guise of insurance, is much more extreme than what we experience in Australia.
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