This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue with part two at our look at the outrage over the state of health care in the United States.

This after the murder of the CEO of United Health, Brian Thompson. Police have just arrested

26-year-old Luigi Mangione and Altoona, Pennsylvania. While many offered condolences to

Thompson's loved ones, his killing sparked outrage over the state of health care here. Some turn to social media to share

their experience with health insurance companies. I started my day with another denial

letter from United Health Care for one of our patients who deserve. Hello, my name is

Yizana and I am a board certified internal medicine doctor and I'm here to share

our stories trying to bridge the gap between us and the public as much as I can.

One of the suckiest part of our jobs is getting all these denial letters from insurance companies.

A lot of times these denial letters are completely baseless.

Unfortunately, we don't have even the evidence or the reason for why they denied such letters.

That's a doctor posting online his experience with denials for health care, for his patients.

For more, we continue with our two guests.

In Washington, D.C., Derek Crowe, is

with us, with the Nonprofit People's Action Institute, which has a care over cost campaign

focused on the health insurance companies, quote, systemic practice of refusing to approve care

through prior authorization denials or pay for care through claim denials.

And in Philadelphia, Wendell Potter is with us, former executive for the health insurance

company, Cigna and Humana, executive editor of Health Care Uncovered.

He's the author of Deadly Spin, an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is

killing health care and

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