Use non-violent means to address our health care woes
A simple statement from Hank Abrons, published in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 9:
“The assassin who shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to death on December 4 aimed at the wrong target, used the wrong weapon, and wasn’t the right person to do the job.
The target should be United Healthcare’s profit-seeking business model.
The weapon must be legislation to replace private health insurance with universal health insurance through a fair publicly financed program.
The right folks to do the job are the voters and our elected legislators.
We must remove health insurance CEOs by nonviolent political action. Let’s go on the offense to establish single payer health insurance (AKA “improved Medicare for all”). We know how to do this. We’ve done the research, developed the policies, written the legislation, shown the cost savings, and more.
It’s up to all of us to help abolish private forprofit health insurance, may it R.I.P. Then we can rejoice and enjoy the health we deserve.”
Healthcare for All Maine 