CEO killing and our for-profit health care system
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A person of interest in the killing of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson was arrested today. We’ll get into the public’s reaction to the killing and what it says about our for-profit health system. Plus, we discuss the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in U.S. history, which is projected to take place over the next 25 years. And, Dick Van Dyke has us smiling as he waltzes into his 99th birthday.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Live Updates: Police Identify ‘Strong Person of Interest’ in C.E.O.’s Killing” from The New York Times
- “Suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ID’d as Luigi Mangione, an ex-Ivy League student” from New York Post
- “Manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Meets Unexpected Obstacle: Sympathy for the Gunman” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Dick Van Dyke, Approaching 99, Dances in Coldplay’s Latest Video” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Mondays, I'm all right. |
| 0:03.6 | There we go. |
| 0:06.9 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Amy Scott. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:13.0 | Kai and Kimberly are both out today. |
| 0:15.5 | So Matt Levin is here with me. |
| 0:17.6 | We're going to hold down the fort today if we can. |
| 0:23.9 | Hey, Matt. Hey, Amy. Very excited to be chatting with you today. It is Monday, December 9th. It is. So on the Monday, |
| 0:31.0 | as you know, we do some news and then we do some smiles. Matt, you want to go first? Tell me |
| 0:35.6 | what caught your eye today. You know, I was actually |
| 0:38.3 | thinking yours, your selection is definitely the news of the day. So let's go with yours first, |
| 0:45.2 | if you don't mind. Oh, sure. Fair enough. So yeah, today police arrested a strong person of |
| 0:52.3 | interest in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. |
| 0:56.8 | I don't know if you've been following this case, but I have been riveted. |
| 1:01.9 | It's fascinating for so many reasons. |
| 1:04.8 | But the New York Post, as far as I know, the New York Post first reported that a man named Luigi Mangione from Towson, Maryland, |
| 1:12.6 | just up the road from me here in Baltimore, was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, |
| 1:18.0 | this morning after an employee recognized him. As we went into the studio this afternoon, |
| 1:23.6 | he had not been charged yet, but I expect there's going to be some more information coming out |
| 1:27.4 | in the next few hours. |
| 1:29.6 | So, you know, check your sources. |
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