Evidence suggests that the killers motive was related to the health insurance industry.
UnitedHealthcare, the nations largest health insurer,made$16 billion in profit last year.
AsRolling Stonerecently noted, the company helps explains why Americas health care system isunusually expensive and produces poor outcomes.
A view outside the UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota.Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Corporate parent UnitedHealth Group is the fourth-largest company in America by revenue.
UnitedHealth is an insurer, a major health care provider, and a middleman between patients and pharmacies.
It alsooffersits allegedlyvery faultyAI claims-handling software to other insurers.
Sixty-seven percent said profits made by health insurance companies played a great or a moderate role in his killing.
However, 78 percent said that the shooter played a great deal or a moderate amount in the killing.
Some respondents reported having negative experiences with health insurance themselves.
Fifteen percent of Americans said they had had a claim denied by an insurance company in the past year.
Sixteen percent said they had a problem finding a suitable provider within the insurance companys online grid.
Respondents reported similar numbers for friends and family.
In the weeks since Thompsons killing, the conversation around health care reform has been reinvigorated.
