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This Colorado doctor studies ethics. He has some thoughts about the UnitedHealthcare shooting.

Dr. Matthew Wynia leads the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities. He says violence is a poor solution to systemic problems.

John Ingold3:13 AM MST on Dec 23, 2024

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The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is a tragedy. The weeks since have also shined a light on something people working in patient advocacy know all too well: The tragedies that occur every day when patients struggle to get their health insurers to cover things like medicines or medical devices that they need to live and to thrive.

In this framing of the issue, these delays or denials can also be a form of violence — structural and institutional, instead of vigilante. And that has led in some corners to thinking of this killing as akin to the whacking of a mob boss: Head up a violent business, expect a violent end.

To help make sense of these debates, The Colorado Sun reached out to Dr. Matthew Wynia, an internal medicine specialist who is the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/12/23/unitedhealthcare-shooting-matthew-wynia-qa/