Mind Fog Revealed by the Murder of Brian Thompson

Much remains to be known about the murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. I don’t know what “brain fog” is and whether Mangione, the young man charged with the murder, suffered from it as was reported. But there is certainly much mind fog in the support he received after his arrest and, more generally, in ideas about health insurance that lie around in the zeitgeist.

For many people, health care and health insurance are special goods because they deal more directly with life, death, and bodily integrity.