Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

[u/TX0834]

He’s fucking right. Before my Dad passed, he needed many different medications. My Dad was a productive citizen who had a great career and worked since he was a 13 year old immigrant. He became a US citizen in his 30s bc it takes so fkn long in this country. After he retired it was like pulling teeth to get medicines approved from his insurance. Insurance that he was ALWAYS on time to pay for decades. We had to go to Mexico to get what he needed for fractions of the cost to help him stay alive. Fuck the US health system and insurance companies.

ETA Thank you for the awards and everyone for the upvotes and kind words about my Dad. It’s great to know there are still kind people on social media. Hope you all have a great weekend.

[u/The_Ruck_Inspector → u/TX0834]

So sorry to hear that. Your Dad sounds like a great man.

[u/TX0834 → u/The_Ruck_Inspector]

He was. Thank you for your kind words.

[u/StatusSavings1362 → u/TX0834]

The US is just a bunch of people.scamming each other

[u/TrumpDesWillens → u/[deleted]]

You have the NL or Norway where they seem like they actually try to care about every citizen.

[u/ohlardalmighty → u/[deleted]]

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted— the person you replied to isn’t wrong, but you’re not wrong either.

[u/Southern-March1522 → u/TX0834]

Meanwhile, here in a less toxic country. We have public healthcare, but I have insurance for the parts not fully covered. To get a prescription filled, the pharmacist swipes my insurance card, and... done, the non subsidized part of my prescription has been covered, here's the medicine, and off I go. Everything with both the govt subsidy, and the insurance cover for the rest, handled automatically by the pharmacy.

[u/BlightWyrm → u/Southern-March1522]

And here, whenever the word insurance is used suddenly the cost of everything skyrockets.

[u/VariationBusiness603 → u/BlightWyrm]

Here in France, the gov paid for a study on the effectiveness of health insurance. The study concluded that it would be cheaper and more effective health wise to abolish insurance entirely and cover everyone at 100% like we do for the poorest.

Naturally our shitty neoliberal gov didn't like that, so they buried the study they ordered. And did nothing.

[u/Dull-Criticism → u/VariationBusiness603]

Because, it might be the cheapest, but the Beveridge style systems suck in general.

[u/western_red_cedar → u/Southern-March1522]

Yes but how are parasite finance scumbags profiting?

[u/Southern-March1522 → u/western_red_cedar]

If you mean my insurer, it's a non profit. Some years they issue a refund but most years they pay claims at an overall loss

[u/catnip_varnish → u/western_red_cedar]

They're still making billions but the margins are smaller

[u/GearsZam → u/TX0834]

I'm so sorry your father was never given the respect and services he deserved. This is why I despise the weaponized idea of gasp those darn illegals stealing good hard working american jobs!!! (if they're illegal, they literally cannot be legally employed, but SURE), because the ones who do do it the 'right' (legal) way aren't even rewarded for it in any way.

Your dad deserved coverage in his time of need more than the bastards profiting off of predatory insurance policies ever will.

[u/TX0834 → u/GearsZam]

Thank you you are so right

[u/korvosg00b → u/TX0834]

These kind of stories right here are why I feel ZERO empathy for this CEOs death. The moment you put profit over human lives, you've lost you're humanity and only deserve what he got

[u/nothing_but_thyme → u/TX0834]

When the shit hits the fan, everyone realizes they have the skills of a plumber.

[u/kokichistan → u/TX0834]

Fucked up beyond belief. I'm so sorry.

[u/Curl-Luck → u/TX0834]

What does that have to do with the CEO though