Murdering a CEO is wrong

First and foremost, let me say that murdering the CEO of a Healthcare company, or any company, is wrong. Full stop.

However...

Healthcare companies have done some shady things they should have known would upset people. Actually, they did know, but they didn't care. Healthcare insurance is a business; like all businesses, it maximizes profits. The way to do that in America is to deny insurance claims or at least fight them to deny people reimbursement or preapproval for as long as possible. And they have lawyers to fight. And agreements you must sign in order to get insurance requires you to go to their arbitrators.

In fact, Anthem Healthcare just updated their policies so that they will pay for an anesthesiologist ONLY AS LONG AS THE OPERATION IS SUPPOSED TO LAST. This means that if you are in an operation where something goes wrong, and you still want anesthesia, you have to pay for it. Say you are having a baby, and you have a breach birth. Well, the birth didn't require anesthesia, so if you want it when they have to cut your abdomen to save the child, no anesthesia for you. Unless you pay for it yourself.

It shouldn't have taken this action, but the murder of Blue Cross' CEO did lead the company to reverse itself after this.

 Tens of millions of Americans have had coverage denied or delayed simply because more profits mean more CEO compensation. Mr. Thompson made $10.2 million dollars last year, and over $9 million in each of the two years before that. $30 Million would pay for a lot of anesthesia. 

The response of the Healthcare companies is to take the CEO's name off the web. Not to address underlying problems but to remove any prospect of accountability.