Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. The murder of a health

insurance CEO being met with widespread approval and the risk of going backward on life-saving

vaccines in the country pretty much sums up the current state of our approach to health care

in the U.S.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes

today includes straight white American Jesus, serious inquiries only, the majority report,

the readout, and the lever. Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show,

there will be more in four sections.

Section A, RFK Jr., section B, Luigi Mangione,

section C, United Healthcare, and Section D, Healthcare History.

So we are going to talk about Luigi Maggione and the killing of the United Health CEO Brian Thompson. We're then going to talk about Pete Higsef and the military

and also just the general target that Trump's nominees and Trump himself have put on

immigrants and queer folks, including and especially trans folks.

So we will go there too with some updates in that whole arena.

But we are going to start today with Maggioni.

And I think the story that has really captivated the nation this week.

I think, Dan, in a media landscape that we have now where everyone is so fragmented, it's hard to think of a story basically being universal, like reaching every corner of the internet and broadcast news and everything else.

But this one really has. And I feel like I haven't done story time in a while, and there's going to be a part of me

here that wants to really get moving. But I feel like we're also going to have a chance to dissect

an article that came out in the last two days and do something we haven't done in a while,

which is kind of our grad seminar. Let's look at key quotes and break them down mode of operating, which, Dan, I really

miss. If there's something I miss about grad school, it's that, right? Sitting in a room,

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