Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore calls out “pouring gasoline” on anger directed at the health insurance industry after Luigi Mangione allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. declared.
The documentarian, who has criticized gun violence, health care and the war on terror in his films, condemned the cold-blooded killing but said the unbridled anger targeting health insurance companies was “long overdue”. He continued to declare.
“After the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare, one of the largest multibillion-dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate outpouring of anger against the health insurance industry. Some people have come forward to denounce this outrage. “I'm not one of them,'' Moore said. I wrote it on his substack. Friday.
“That anger is 1000% justified. It's been a long time since the media picked it up. It's not new. It's been boiling over. And I'm not going to quell it or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”
Moore bizarrely claimed that insurance companies and their executives have “spilled more blood than 1,000 9/11 terrorists.”
This brazen murder has sparked outrage at the health insurance industry, with many outrageously praising the suspected shooter and reveling in the tragedy on social media. A lookalike contest was also held in the Big Apple last weekend before Mangione's arrest.
The Oscar winner's post came days after police recovered a handwritten manifesto-type document from the 26-year-old assassination suspect that appeared to refer to Moore, and was filed by UnitedHealthcare and health insurance companies. Corporate greed was also criticized.
Mangione wrote that “there is much that highlights the corruption and greed” in the medical industry.
Moore's 2007 film “Sicko” attacked the American health insurance industry and contrasted it with that of other Western countries.
“It's not often that my work gets the highest five-star reviews from actual murderers,” said Moore, who released his documentary on YouTube.
“People across America are not celebrating the brutal murder of a Minnesota father and his two children. They are crying out for help, saying what is wrong, saying this system is not about justice. They want retribution. They want health care.”
The director of Bowling for Columbine called on lawmakers to instead “dismantle” the system and provide free universal health care to Americans.
Mangione, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, was shot and killed by Thompson on Dec. 4 as the 50-year-old CEO walked into the Sixth Avenue Hilton Hotel, where UnitedHealthcare's parent company was holding its annual investor conference. He is being indicted on suspicion of doing so.
The suspect led police on a five-day manhunt that ended on Monday when he was taken into custody after an employee at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania recognized him and called police.
Mr. Mangione faces murder charges and is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on gun and forgery charges, but has pleaded not guilty.
