My brother (who just lost his wife in October to liver cancer) and I were just talking about this. My brother is livid with how Sharps Hospital/Healthcare handled her illness and rightly so (I'm not even going into it but what they did shortened her time here and cost them dearly financially).
The way I see it, I think a lot of people have a sense that something is seriously wrong with American society today. It's not just healthcare (which is amongst the worst), but it seems like every institution that we once trusted is turning into what amounts to liars and scammers. We have become a scam nation. Every single morning that we wake up, someone is trying to steal something from us. Every thing I buy has a hidden cost or a bullshit fee. I get a scam phone calls, emails, and scam snail mail or texts every single damn day.
I have come to realize I can no longer trust the press, corporations, the police, our courts, our government (politicians), our banks, insurance companies or even our frigging health care. The damn whole kit and caboodle has been stacked against us. They use government regulations and laws to keep stacking the odds against the average working person and they just keep lying to us and playing bait and switch in the press so we don't realize it's happening. We're like frogs in water that keeps heating up and will eventually boil every last dollar out of us.
My brother mentioned an analogy that I think applies. It's called the 3 boxes. The ballot box, the jury box and the bullet box. When we can no longer trust that our vote is counted we turn to the courts, when we can no longer trust the courts, what recourse do we have left? The bullet box. This is where I think that Mangione was. I don't condone murder by any stretch, but this is where I think he was coming from.
