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It wasn’t on RM for long. Maybe a few days. Maybe someone married him.

That goes against my own personal experience and that of my entire family and friends and acquaintances. While I read about instances of failures in the system, overall Canadians are attached to our system of public ally funded health care and want to improve it, not dispose of it. In the US, only Bernie Sanders has advocated a system such as ours at the highest level of government.

As the NYT is reporting, the killing of the nation’s largest health insurance provider’s chief executive is provoking an avalanche of hatred expressed about the business. It is inevitable that the individual who is the face of the industry would be the focus of the hatred. Hate speech directed to an individual is to be condemned but when the individual is tied to a hated institution then it becomes problematic to ban the speech. An institution that is widely hated by the general public needs to be held accountable. It is the role of government to address the situation because public health is a government responsibility.

Millions of people are saying what the health insurance companies are doing is wrong as well.

Murder is murder but assassinations are a different thing. If the motive was political, then this was an assassination.

This case has brought out many stories of people in the United States waiting months to get insurance company approvals for their needed surgeries only to be turned down. There was a young man interviewed in Florida who injured his nose last year in a sporting accident and he is still waiting to have his nose fixed properly. His insurance would only cover a partial fix.

I don’t think it’s realistic to think they aren’t going to find him. His face is known. It’s only a matter of time. Reminds me of the Versace murder in 1997. I just looked it up and he was 50 as well. Sort of a weird coincidence.

The US system is also a form of rationing, based on ability to pay. The under or uninsured are left to fend for themselves.

Someone wrote that this harkens back to Bonnie and Clyde who became folk hero’s shooting up banks and killing people during the Great Depression. A movie may come from this.

Yeah, I always thought of it as a sort of anthem for the gays. Even if you didn’t understand too much French. You understood the sentiment.

It was reported today that 27 percent of Fortune 500 companies spend on security to protect their CEOs. Meta spends $23 million on security for Mark Zuckerberg. More are expected to up their security measures now in the light of this murder.

I find it remarkable that if this was a planned and targeted killing, that it was carried out at a very early time in the morning outside the hotel where this conference was occurring , a hotel with 2000 rooms and where apparently the victim was staying. The gunman was standing around outside but how did he know the victim would emerge at that hour to take a stroll? How fortuitous is that? Of course flukes like that have happened before. Archduke Ferdinand was in a car that deviated from its planned route in Sarajevo and into the path of a gunman standing on a side street who thought he had missed his chance of shooting the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

While I feel empathy for the victim and his family, if the reputation of the company he was CEO of is accurate, and given its dominance in the private health care insurance system, then I think the company and its board of directors need to look at themselves in the mirror to see if they like what they see.

As an addendum, if you are interested in hearing another take on Piaf’s classic, Merielle Mathieu’s rendition is also great.

Rightfully so. Weird answer.

Reading this, I am reminded of the Mountbattens, Lord Louis and Lady Edwina. For most of their married life they were each going to bed with others, in their case, of both sexes. And they were quite open with each other that they were doing so. And they stayed together through it all although his career often took him away from her. When he was Viceroy of India, she was bedding Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister. They were a most glamorous couple but all this only became really public after the fact.

In the risk figure of 0.11percent you cite, does that apply to pos partners who have undetectable status or those who have a detectable viral load?

Does this law apply to male sex workers and can they organize legal brothels as I assume the female workers can?

The standard practice in the pharmaceutical industry industry is to list every possible side effect from taking a medication that has been reported. If only one in a million has had a side effect, it is listed. This is why companies are required to give that information when promoting their products. Some people then assume this is a widespread occurrence just because it is mentioned. Statistics!

That’s a difficult thing for a real artist to do. Most wait for public opinion to change, even if it means dying before their work is recognized. There are countless examples in history. The hoi poloi have no idea about art, never having educated themselves about it.

You are sadly misinformed. I’ll leave it at that.

You might ask who was Charles Dumont and why is he noteworthy. I didn’t know who he was either till I read his obituary this morning in the Globe&Mail newspaper. He composed Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien for Edith Piaf. The song revived her flagging career three years before her death, even though she had rejected many of his songs previously. After he played the song for her in her apartment, where she was recovering from a car accident, she rudely asked if he had written the song. She then asked him to play it again 5 or 6 times. She exclaimed, “this is magnificent, it was made for her, and it would be her resurrection.” And it was. He was 95.

Was this in reaction to negative public reaction to the artist’s first effort?

The treatment in the third world is inexpensive, thanks in part to what President George W Bush initiated in financial help to poor countries suffering from the AIDs epidemic.

That’s a gross exaggeration. The drugs used now to treat HIV have been refined and advanced such that negative side effects have been greatly reduced, if not eliminated. Many on ART experience no side effects at all. This is quite different from what was the case in the early days of a drug treatment of HIV.