As a 78-year-old President Trump takes over from an 82-year-old President Biden, geriatric leadership still characterises American politics. On the right, there’s 91-year-old Senator Chuck Grassley; on the left, 86-year-old firebrand congresswoman Maxine Waters. Kay Granger, an 81-year-old US Representative from Texas, who was missing from her office during much of 2024, was eventually found living in a retirement home that specialises in memory care. America’s treatment of her elderly, and the nation’s healthcare system in general, again came under the spotlight when the CEO of the giant UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of his New York hotel by Luigi Mangione, 26. The crime was seemingly an act of revenge for some past grievance. Shell casings found at the scene of Thompson’s murder had ‘delay’, ‘deny’ and ‘depose’ written on them, the phrase large companies like UnitedHealthcare use when declining to pay out a...
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