Filmmaker Michael Moore backed the anger towards insurance coverage firms following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson final week.
“After the killing of the CEO of United HealthCare, the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the health insurance industry. Some people have stepped forward to condemn this anger,” Moore wrote in his Substack article revealed Friday. “I am not one of them.”
“The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger,” Moore continued.
Moore’s remarks come because the filmmaker is reportedly talked about in suspect’s manifesto for calling out the “corruption and greed” throughout the healthcare business, as highlighted by Newsweek.
Thompson was shot and killed final week outdoors a midtown Manhattan lodge the place UnitedHealth Group was holding its annual investor convention.
Luigi Mangione, the person suspected of killing Thompson, faces 5 counts together with homicide within the second diploma, in accordance with an arrest warrant. He additionally faces two counts of felony possession of a weapon within the second diploma, one rely of felony possession of a weapon within the third diploma and felony possession of a solid instrument within the second diploma.
Police mentioned a ghost gun, silencer and writings expressing “some ill will toward corporate America” have been discovered on Mangione, which linked him to the crime. Mangione has claimed he acted alone.
Moore in his article defined that he doesn’t see the anger as being associated to the killing of Thompson.
“It is about the mass death and misery — the physical pain, the mental abuse, the medical debt, the bankruptcies in the face of denied claims and denied care and bottomless deductibles on top of ballooning premiums — that this “health care” industry has levied against the American people for decades,” Moore wrote.
He known as for the entire reform of the well being care system, suggesting the present one is thrown “in the trash.”
“The solution is simple. Throw this entire system in the trash, dismantle this immoral business that profits off the lives of human beings and monetizes our deaths, that murders us or leaves us to die, destroy it all, and instead, in its place, give us all the same health care that every other civilized country on Earth has: Universal, free, compassionate, and full of life,” Moore wrote.
Moore’s sentiments echo what some lawmakers have highlighted as tensions between Individuals and medical insurance companies within the wake of Thompson’s loss of life.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mentioned denied claims from a medical insurance firm may very well be interpreted by folks struggling to afford health-related prices as “an act of violence” in opposition to them. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) additionally mentioned in a latest interview that the capturing may very well be a warning “to everyone in the health care system,” including that “people can be pushed only so far.”
