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The thing is, most people aren't celebrating this as "murder", they're celebrating it as self-defense.
Imagine someone walks into your home and starts waving a gun around, threatening to kill your kids. It's completely uncontroversial that in that situation, you have a right (perhaps even an obligation) to defend yourself and anyone else in immediate danger.
Now imagine instead you're in a hospital room, and your kid has an autoimmune disease that's shredded their lungs. A ventilator is the only thing keeping them alive while they wait for a lung transplant. The same guy comes in, but instead of waving a gun around he says he's going to unhook the ventilator. Why is this different? Why do you have a right to defense in one situation and not the other? Sure, CEOs aren't literally walking into hospital rooms and pulling plugs, but Charles Manson didn't walk into homes killing people and we all agree he deserved to be convicted of murder. They're directing subordinates and directing systems to kill people, on purpose.
The working class is under siege by people who are willing to sacrifice our lives in the interest of corporate profits. We have a right to defend ourselves.
Did his act prevent the imminent death of another who was being threatened by the man he killed? That's what self defence is about.
If you believe something strongly enough to sacrifice for it that's fine, but to go around pretending that everything popular should be consequence free is childish. If you want to get involved in such serious matters, you ought to be a hell of a lot smarter than people are acting.
Honestly most likely at least some due to the mass outrage sparked by the killing, yes. It is at least likely that some in the health insurance industry are reconsidering the level of shit they can get away with. For example, immediately after the killing:
I had a doctors appointment earlier this week and stuff I've been trying to get treated for years got approved