The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has revealed a simmering anger with the American healthcare system in the spotlight. William Brangham discussed more with Wendell Potter. He spent decades working for the health insurance company, Cigna, before leaving and dedicating his career to reform.
The people surprised are those that have special policies like government officials that are given preferential treatment with minimal out of pocket costs for almost everything.
Or those that have never been sick enough to have a claim that was expensive enough to get denied automatically by the insurance company.