A Warning Shot

Brian Thompson, who had led the UnitedHealthcare insurance company, was shot to death at point-blank range early Wednesday morning on the sidewalk outside the New York Hilton Midtown ahead of his company's investors' day conference.

Read that again.

An investor's conference.

This is where the CEO brags about how many scores of billions of dollars a year he rakes in based on selling insurance to people when they don’t need it, and denying claims as soon as they do. 

The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered on the shell casings found at the scene where this  CEO was gunned down. The masked gunman remains on the loose.

If the shooter is ever caught, no jury on earth will convict him.

Let this be a warning -- a shot across the bow -- to the politicians who think they can cancel ObamaCare, and privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans health care.

In the era of "stand your ground" gun laws, the folks who jeopardize our health and welfare should have a lot to fear.

Or, as one friend put it, "If we kill and eat one billionaire and one CEO and one politician a year, I'm pretty sure the others will get the idea."