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Certain denizens of elite precincts are celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. They see Thompson’s murder as a blow against the system of health care and health insurance to which the left itself has contributed. Their celebration seems crazier than Mangione. The sick streak running through our elites grows wider every day.

At Healthy Skeptic my law school classmate Kevin Roche undertakes an autopsy in “Health insurance and murder.” Kevin is former UHC general counsel and then founder and former CEO of its Ingenix division. Since leaving UHC he has invested in and sat on the boards of a number of health care companies. Not that you need it, but his post is an antidote to the insanity.

Brian Thompson worked his way up at UHC over the course of some 20 years. By contrast, Mangione was a child of privilege. He came from a wealthy family. He attended a prep school and proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania. Somewhere along the way he turned into a cold-blooded assassin driven by some derangement. He should be the object of revulsion rather than admiration. That admiration reveals a sick streak at large among us.

Mangione has put me in mind of Richard Speck. Speck was not a child of privilege. He grew up on the other end of the economic spectrum. In July 1966, he went on a rampage in Chicago. The rampage culminated in the murder of eight nursing students who worked at the South Chicago Community Hospital. It took the authorities a couple of days to track him down. His “born to raise hell” tattoo” gave him away.

The Chicago History Museum recalls Speck as “The first mass murderer.” Speck was a premature barbarian. Today he could have fashioned his rampage as a statement against the system. Among our elites, he could have made himself a hero for our time.