Monday, after an intense manhunt, police in Altoona, PA arrested the man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson the previous week.

‘The killing has captured the attention of the country, with many people expressing more outrage about the way United Healthcare treats its customers than about the murder itself.

All health insurance companies deny coverage to insured patients as part of their business model. But UHC has a denial rate more than double that of its competitors. We know the alleged murderer had serious medical issues over the last few years, but we don’t yet know if he felt personally harmed by UHC.

My family has experienced UHCs mistreatment firsthand. But we didn’t 3D print a gun and stalk its CEO. Being treated poorly by a company is not a justification for murdering its executives. If it were, we’d have dead execs everywhere we turn, because someone, somewhere has an ax to grind with just about every company on the planet.

The American health care system has serious problems. Too often, people treated for serious illness wind up in bankruptcy because of exorbitant bills they can’t pay. Even worse, people die—not because their illness is untreatable, but because their insurance company refuses to approve the medical care that would save them.

The solution is not to kill the executives and extoll the murderers, but to use this as a chance to shed light on the problem so it can be properly diagnosed and treated. Otherwise, we are likely to see the problem of violence grow and metastasize. And that cures nothing.

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