The big news that everyone is talking about this week is the smiling accused assassin, Luigi Mangione. The young man has been charged with assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week outside a hotel in Manhattan.
You’ve probably seen the video a hundred times by now. Everyone in the media is trying to divide this up into a liberal-conservative argument now. That’s not accurate if you go on social media, however. Even right-leaning media outlets seem wildly out of touch with most Americans commenting on this case. Let’s talk about Luigi Mangione.
I’m just going to issue a blanket statement up front. Luigi is innocent until proven guilty. He might simply be a patsy with an unfortunate set of eyebrows, for all we know.
That being said, the media is shocked that so many people are showing sympathy for Luigi and scorn for Thompson. It’s safe to say that most people view Luigi as a new folk hero (whether he’s guilty or not). Conservative media is oblivious to this. They wring their bow ties and screech, “Well, I never!” anytime someone makes a snarky comment on X or TikTok about it.
The corporate media types with multi-million-dollar salaries and the best health insurance that money can buy can’t seem to fathom the fact that millions of Americans have good reasons to hate the health insurance industry and anyone associated with it. When Luigi (or whoever the shooter was) stepped out in front of witnesses in Manhattan and triple-tapped Brian Thompson with a homemade firearm, he had to know he was going to get caught. New York City is saturated with surveillance cameras. Yet the shooter thought the consequences were worth it compared to taking the life of a health insurance CEO.
Here’s a very personal story about my own experience with the wicked healthcare industry in America. I collapsed from heart failure in January 2022 (and no, I never took the vax). When I got to the hospital, they ushered me into a triage tent outside the hospital. It was January, so it was about 40 degrees inside the tent.
Early blood work showed that I was clearly dying from cascading organ failure. My kidneys and liver had shut down completely and my heart would probably be next. Unfortunately, they didn’t have an ICU room for me inside the hospital yet. There were just too many COVID patients.
Even though I was clearly dying, I sat in a plastic chair in that triage tent that smelled like piss for 14 hours in the cold before a warm room inside the hospital opened up for me. During those 14 hours, my brother kept me on the phone the whole time to keep me awake. They were afraid I would die if I fell asleep.
As I was sitting there trying not to die, I watched as dozens upon dozens of younger people showed up at the triage tent with the sniffles. The hospital staff immediately shuffled them inside and put them in a room with a nice warm bed. Every COVID patient represented a government bounty worth tens of thousands of dollars to the hospital. I was just some poor guy dying from organ failure, so I was worth much less money to the hospital and the insurance companies.
When I was finally admitted to a room, the hospital would not allow my wife or kids inside to see me. Because COVID. My youngest daughter, age 11, was afraid that I would die. She wanted to come hold her daddy’s hand and read to me. She wasn’t allowed to and she’s traumatized about it to this day.
Brian Thompson is part of the system that put me, my wife, and my children through that. All the bounties that the federal government paid to the hospitals and insurance companies during COVID caused the inflation that we’re experiencing right now. Every American family has lost $14,000 a year in purchasing power because of the COVID bounties that Thompson was a part of.
Close to a million Americans were killed by COVID protocols that they all knew didn’t work (ventilators, remdesivir, etc.). The stock price of UnitedHealthcare has gone up 20X since the passage of Obamacare. Are you getting 20X more value on your health insurance since then? Has the quality of care you receive at the hospital gone up 20X? Obviously not.
Before you condemn someone for celebrating Brian Thompson’s death, just remember that he was part of a system that has harmed millions of American families for money. Thompson supposedly implemented an AI program that automatically rejects all insurance claims the first time they come in. Many people won’t go through the cumbersome process of appealing, so they just give up.
The insurance companies do this deliberately to save money, and the politicians do nothing about it. We can’t vote our way out of this problem because the politicians on both sides of the aisle are in on it. It was inevitable that someone would turn to force when that system continued long enough.
I don’t condone what Luigi Mangione (or whoever) did, but I get it. I’d offer prayers to Brian Thompson, but that would require preauthorization.
Speaking of prayers, sometimes God sends an assassin to carry a message to the people. Read Judges chapter 3 in the Old Testament for just one example. The question is whether the people will choose to listen.
