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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ro Khanna: Brian Thompson killing was ‘horrific’ but people ‘aren’t getting care they need’

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Ro Khanna questions witnesses during a roundtable on supreme court ethics in Washington DC earlier this year. Photograph: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Progressive congressperson Ro Khanna has sympathy for the murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson – yet at the same time is not surprised that the killing reignited a national dialogue about inequities in the US healthcare system, he said in an interview on Sunday.

“It was horrific,” the California Democrat said on ABC This Week with respect to the slaying of Thompson, whose survivors include his widow and two sons ages 16 and 19. “I mean, this is a father we’re talking about – of two children, and … there is no justification for violence.

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