DEAR EDITOR:

President Trump’s recently signed Big, Beautiful Bill promises to disenroll up to 17 million Americans from Medicaid, according to reputable sources.

Accused killer Luigi Mangione had a booster club erupt about him that called his alleged murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson “acceptable,” “completely justified” and “deserved.”

How is it that the American health care debate seems always stuck in a weird, antinomian world so like the topsy-turvy evil in the Bizarro comics some of us read as youngsters?

President Trump and the Republican Congress’s Medicaid cutoff isn’t threatening severe diabetics with coma and death in their Bizarro world; they’re empowering sick people to revisit the dignity of work. Mangione’s fans aren’t endorsing murder in their Bizarro world; they’re promoting killing of insurance executives as pre-emptive justice to achieve health results they feel they’re entitled to.

Isn’t getting health care for sick people a good thing? Isn’t murder a bad thing?

JACK LABUSCH

Niles