You have probably heard by now that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in cold blood on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday. It was a heinous crime, committed apparently without empathy for the victim. That would be just as true had Thompson been the janitor rather than the CEO. 

Theories abound as to his killer's identity and motive. The leading theory is he was someone angry about denied health insurance claims. The coolness with which the shooter carried out his crime has led some to suggest this was a professional assassination made to look like a crime of resentment. We'll have to wait and see if the police eventually make an arrest and assess whether they have the right man.

Almost as disturbing as the crime itself has been the reaction on social media by the political left. They ranged anywhere from "killing people is wrong, but..." to "we're off to a good start," the latter apparently referring to a murder spree a la a 20th century communist revolution. 

All of this hatred towards insurance companies is completely misplaced. Health insurance is ridiculously expensive because the underlying healthcare being insured is ridiculously expensive. And that is 100 percent due to government interference in the healthcare marketplace, each intervention overwhelmingly supported by the public when first proposed.

I talk about how government has destroyed the healthcare marketplace and made healthcare prohibitively expensive on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom.

Incidentally, I have begun releasing my podcasts in video form on YouTube. You can find a link to the video on the show notes page of each episode with the text, Watch Episode on YouTube. 

And, of course, the audio is still dropped to all major podcast apps as well. 

Listen to Episode 188 here...

Tom Mullen is the author of It’s the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? 

 Tom