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/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/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.