Michael Moore says individuals’s anger over America’s healthcare system and for-profit insurance coverage is “1000% justified” following the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a Substack essay penned after he was name-dropped within the accused killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto, Michael mentioned whereas he doesn’t condone homicide, the healthcare system has extra “blood on their arms than a thousand 9/11 terrorists.”
Michael didn’t cease there — he made it clear the anger concerning the damaged healthcare system was so justified that he was going to “pour gasoline on that anger.”
He insisted the outrage comes from “the bodily ache, the psychological abuse, the medical debt, the bankruptcies within the face of denied claims and denied care and bottomless deductibles on prime of ballooning premiums — that this ‘well being care’ trade has levied in opposition to the American individuals for many years.”
As reported, Mangione allegedly known as Moore the one who “illuminated the corruption and greed” within the healthcare trade in his 2007 movie “Sicko” — and Moore responded, writing, “It’s not usually that my work will get a killer five-star evaluation from an precise killer.”
However Michael insists that, on the finish of the day, his level is that nobody ought to need to die — particularly not due to medical insurance.
As we’ve reported, Thompson’s homicide and Luigi’s arrest have sparked main division, with some individuals really embracing Luigi regardless of the allegations — praising his seems to be and even providing to pay his authorized charges.
Mangione is at the moment going through costs of second-degree homicide in New York.
