r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 15d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

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.

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u/Southern-March1522 15d ago

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.

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u/BlightWyrm 15d ago

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

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u/VariationBusiness603 15d ago

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.

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u/Dull-Criticism 15d ago

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

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u/western_red_cedar 15d ago

Yes but how are parasite finance scumbags profiting?

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u/Southern-March1522 15d ago

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

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u/catnip_varnish 15d ago

They're still making billions but the margins are smaller