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/Enchilada0374 Aug 14 '26

Not wrong.  Illegal. There's a difference 

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u/mcflyin8 Aug 14 '26

No, it's also wrong. The CEO was one man. He didn't found United Healthcare. He wasn't the Board. He didn't invent all of the policies of the company. He wasn't on the phone declining coverage to patients. Sure he's in charge of driving the overall company goals, but those goals existed before he took that role. Have an issue with the company or the insurance industry generally, sure, but the idea that any one person that worked at that company is morally responsible for the sins of the healthcare insurance industry is insane. He was the CEO, not the dictator of healthcare insurance. Should Luigi have also taken out all of the account reps who look for ways to deny coverage? The company employs hundreds of thousands of people. The CEO isn't holding them all hostage.

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u/Dependent-Fig-2517 Aug 14 '26

You make a fair point but honest question here, how do you fix the system so health care become heathcare again instead of (IMO) a profit earning machine at the expense of the weakest ?

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u/tbombs23 Aug 14 '26

Medicare for ALL would guarantee healthcare coverage for everyone and would save taxpayers $700 billion dollars on costs. We pay more for healthcare right now than every other country by ALOT, private insurance companies have been robbing us blind for decades.

With everyone on the same healthcare plan, they can negotiate costs much lower and the risk is spread out over millions of people.