Mega-podcaster Joe Rogan has suggested that the lack of public sympathy for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is due to the “dirty business” he was involved in.
Rogan, 57, spoke with director Quentin Tarantino and producer Roger Avary on Tuesday's episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” during which they talked about CEO killer Luigi Mangione's We started the show briefly by discussing photography.
“I don't think this guy is a professional,” Rogan said in an episode recorded Monday, about a week before assassination suspect Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a five-day manhunt. I spoke inside.
“If I had to guess, I would say this guy was a fucked up guy,” the UFC commentator said. “Apparently, that company is very bad at denying claims.”
Next, Mr. Avary and Mr. Logan pointed to the staggering denial rate of health insurance claims that UnitedHealthcare allegedly makes to its policyholders.
“I don't think anyone would cry over something like this.” [Thompson]” Avary said.
“Maybe his family, but that's all,” Logan replied.
“It's a dirty, dirty business. The insurance business is very messy. It's awful. Especially health insurance. It's awful.”
Mangione is accused of fatally shooting 50-year-old CEO Thompson as the latter was heading to a Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealthcare's parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor meeting. has been done.
He was reported missing by a family member of a prominent Maryland real estate company last month after he underwent back surgery and became unreachable.
The bright 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate was arrested at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania after a five-day manhunt and was found with a ghost gun, a mask, a U.S. passport, and a rambling text related to the ambush. discovered.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
- Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said.
- Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company targeted by the Justice Department.
- Thompson's wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed.
- The Thompson shooting sparked an online frenzy and even sparked a tasteless lookalike contest in New York.
- A dignitary was arrested by police inside a McDonald's store in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
- The suspect has been identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland. He was a former Ivy League student who hated the medical world.
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He was charged with murder in New York on Monday night after authorities in Pennsylvania indicted him earlier in the day on charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police.
Law enforcement agencies are investigating a three-page manifesto-style document in Mangione's possession.
The alleged manifesto included blistering remarks against “parasitic” health insurance companies and expressions of disdain for corporate greed and power.
The Ivy League graduate also reportedly wrote that the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world and that “our average life expectancy” has not increased while profits for big corporations continue to increase.
A handwritten document allegedly found with Mangione included a line claiming Mangione acted alone.
“Dear Fed, I will keep this brief because I respect the work the Fed does for our country.To save you a lengthy investigation, I am not cooperating with anyone. We state this clearly,” the document says, sources said.
Details emerged as police continued to investigate the motive for the cold-blooded killing, including whether Mangione, who suffered from chronic back pain, was motivated by revenge against the medical industry.
Mangione is being held in a Pennsylvania jail while he fights extradition to New York.
