I don't agree with celebration of this man's execution. People are using him as a totem for all their anger and frustration with the medical insurance industry. The real culprits are the lawmakers who are responsible for this system, not the for-profit companies that are occupying the space those lawmakers created.

These companies are legally obligated to maximize profits, and their actions and decisions are in service of that legally compelled priority. This CEO wasn't doing anything other than abiding by the law and the rules established by the lawmakers. And I don't think he deserves to be made the boogeyman.

Whatever you think of him, his company, and his industry, he was a human being with a family who loved him, and I just think these celebrations and jokes are a shameful response to his extrajudicial execution. I think about how his family must be feeling in this moment, and how these expressions of joy are effecting them.