From the International Left we call for the organization of a large international campaign demanding the freedom of Luigi Mangione accused in New York of having murdered Brian Thomson, former CEO of the health insurance company United Healthcare and Briana Boston accused of making telephone threats against the health insurance company Cross Blue Shield .
Both have been accused based on their positions against the phenomenal fraud perpetrated by health insurance companies on workers, retirees and the dispossessed, exactly the same as the opinion of a large part of the entire American population.
These companies are perverse businesses, whose only objective is to multiply their profits at the expense of the population, acting without the slightest scruple for the health of their members, permanently reducing benefits, leaving thousands in the most complete defenselessness, going so far as to actually practice euthanasia, by abandoning crucial assistance and adequate treatment.
It is no coincidence that this is happening while the income of the majority is falling at the same time, increasing job insecurity and unemployment in a world power that boasts of having the largest number of multimillionaires on the planet, but which lacks a universal, comprehensive, free and quality health system for all its citizens, allowing shameful profiteering over the needs of the population.
We have reached this point because Democrats and Republicans, far from changing this, have given these companies more and more freedom to defraud the population. President-elect Donald Trump announced a few days ago that he would cut government spending on health even further, so we can already know that things will get even worse in the future.
It is time for the millions of Americans who suffer from this to organize and mobilize to stop the current state of affairs. We call on unions, community and student organizations to promote a major campaign that begins with the defense of those arrested and the demand for their immediate release, in the face of a judiciary that has historically been arbitrary against workers, the poor, blacks and all minorities, and that has imprisoned thousands of innocent people protecting the interests of companies and their obsequious and millionaire politicians.
Once again, we unconditionally defend the right of the people to confront the ruling class as they see fit, whether or not we agree with the methods used , and we oppose any kind of reprisals by the regime and government against those who rebel.
From there we must fight for a new health system, leaving out business and prioritizing the health and integrity of the American people.
• Immediate freedom for Boston and Mangione.
• Stop treating health like a business.
• Opening and publication of balance sheets and accounting books of these companies.
• For a state-run, universal, comprehensive, free and quality health system.
• Creation of a tribunal composed of relatives of patients harmed by insurance companies with the support of independent health professionals to determine the damage caused by them and sanction their executives .
• Immediate expropriation without payment of insurance companies that deny necessary treatments to their members.
• By an independent monitoring body made up of representatives of health workers and patients.
12/16/2024.