How the murder of one of the largest health insurers reveals Americans' anger against the system

It took the assassination of one of the executives of the largest health insurance company in the United States to reopen the debate on the growing dysfunctions of the American health system.
Beyond the numerous anonymous messages of support on social networks, for Luigi Mangione, the man who committed this murder on December 4 in the middle of Manhattan, American elected officials and senior business leaders in the sector are speaking out. While hundreds of Internet users send the 26-year-old young man contributions to pay his lawyers, a few voices are still raised to recall that the cold-blooded execution of Brian Thompson, boss of one of the largest subsidiaries of United HealthCare, is obviously a heinous crime.

However, politicians and senior officials from private players in the world of health admit that the tragedy unfortunately reveals a growing anger. The revolt has been brewing for months. It seems urgent to understand it, or even to remedy it… More than 66 million Americans over 65 are not the most directly concerned, because they are relatively covered by Medicare, the federal public program which resembles French Social Security. In addition, more than 72 million poor households, generally with children, covered by Medicaid (the other public insurance plan reserved for the disadvantaged and the disabled) are also escaping the worst of the American health crisis.

On the other hand, the most outraged are the self-employed workers, on whose backs “Obamacare”, the derogatory name of the health reform desired by Barack Obama in 2010, was made. This category of taxpayers cannot benefit from the subsidies that grant companies to their employees to pay their compulsory health insurance premiums…