Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm Wajatli, and I have health insurance through my wife. I am a poor writer. I want

everyone to know that. I am a very poor writer. Thank God for health insurance through my wife.

Just randomly wanted to say that,iel and uh and let me say that um i don't have a wife anymore and so my health insurance

is paid for out of my own pocket costing quite the pretty penny every, every month.

I have said many times, Wash, that I believe that the health care system in the United States is the Ponzi scheme.

And you are paying in to a health insurance company, however many, if you are independent, you're paying this yourself.

If you are a company, you are paying to cover your employees with health insurance,

however many thousands of dollars a month, only for the health insurance people to turn around,

take your money and then tell you that they're not going to cover you when you're ill.

And so that brings us to one of the most interesting, unfortunate, wild stories out of this week.

And so of the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare.

And folks, what we're showing you right now is his final post on LinkedIn, where it reads,

we work every day to find ways to make hashtag healthcare more affordable,

including reducing the cost of life-saving prescription drugs.

I'm proud of the work chief affordability officer, Matthew Veslidal,

and his team are doing to reduce costs for members.

So this is his last post.

Then this is the responses to those posts.

And I will read it so that you all can actually see.

You're doing a great job cutting your costs, not having a single anesthesiologist in network in the entire state of Montana is a great policy to save you money. Number two,

Hey, Brian, I just spent an hour on the phone battling to get general information for my wife with stage

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