The Luigi Mangione manifesto

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“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
 

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He actually misidentified the problem.

The deeper issue is lack of a strong central government able to fix things properly, things become overly bureaucratic and inefficient.

Still the health insurance model as it exists in the US is pretty bad so i can see why a lot of people are frustrated and private insurance companies are likely to face a lot of the blame even in cases where it isn't even their fault to begin with.

While private health insurance companies do make money it's only a few percent in terms of profit margin.
 

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I was always hesitant about getting health insurance,
because I know how these companies pile patients with bureaucracy toilet paper, to get what they are owed.

the doctors are pretty stupid, and I always end up researching my illness and curing myself.

for example, doctors told me I had asthma, but I figured out it was just side effects of eating dairy.

when I broke both my hands, I had to pay 300$ just for painkiller injection, and wait a long time and get treated very coldly. I ended up fixing it by studying physiotherapy videos online.

I was drinking threw a straw cause I couldn't use my hands, but the hospital just sent me away, not caring what will be of me.

I do think a painful slow death as a result of an injury or illness is not as bad as dealing with the paperwork.
 

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The medical system in general is mostly about helping the elderly.
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Young people tend to be treated very disrespectfully.


And very often they don't even have any good treatment to offer anyway.
 
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Luigi may be the only legit manifesto guy. May be. One can never be sure. he also picked a "victim" that made sense to pick given the complaints of luigi.
 
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