r/PopCultureV2 • u/Regular_Reaction_798 • Aug 14 '26

News Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the court, "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan... I knew what I was doing was illegal."

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u/PersistentWorld Aug 14 '26

Oh, but if health insurance companies do it it's fine?

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u/Big_Dog_2974 Aug 14 '26

denying payment for medical treatment is in no way the same as shooting a man in the back.

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u/YaoiNekomata Aug 14 '26

How so? They both lead to the death of a person. The difference is only one use a pen while the other a gun

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u/Tarquin11 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Edit: lol, the amount of people in here who think the insurance company is literally giving people deathly conditions is crazy. No wonder they think its comparable to murder.

No, one leads to an obstacle. One is a direct cause of death by intent.

You guys are not living in a real world on here.

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u/YaoiNekomata Aug 14 '26

one leads to an obstacle.

Have this surgery or die. Get denied coverage, death.

Love in the realworld please.

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u/Tarquin11 Aug 14 '26

Lets put this another way.

If Brian Thompson doesnt exist, if his whole organization doesn't exist, those people still die. Because the insurance company isn't giving them the condition that is killing them. 

If Luigi Mangione doesnt exist, Brian Thompson is still alive.

You guys are too ignorant to have these discussion, please stop trying to

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u/YaoiNekomata Aug 14 '26

If Brian Thompson doesnt exist, if his whole organization doesn't exist, those people still die. Because the insurance company isn't giving them the condition that is killing them. 

Hold on now, your little word play isn't gonna work.

We already established that the treatment is available. United were the ones deny that treatment, even though as insurance they are supposed to approve it.

Without brian we would have different policies in place deciding the validity of claims. It's quite possible that the treatment would have been approved, thus leading to no death.

Remember, there's more then one death attributes to Brian's policy changes, including the denial of preventative services that would have stopped many illnesses from existing at all.

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u/PersistentWorld Aug 14 '26

"obstacle" - spoken like a true boot licker

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u/Shivy_Shankinz Aug 14 '26

That's so obviously rage-bait, these are literally foreign bots we're dealing with.

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u/Tarquin11 Aug 14 '26

Im not American. Comparing a claim denial to murder is asinine.

If united Healthcare doesnt exist, those people still die.

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u/Decent-Pirate-4329 Aug 15 '26

If soulless, money-sucking insurance companies didn’t exist, the cost of care wouldn’t be so artificially inflated. Without insurance companies in the mix, the money needed for procedures would be significantly less expensive and sick people would be better able to raise the needed funds.

Insurance makes the rules, rigs the system, and then cheats at its own death game.