How to Fix America’s Broken Healthcare System
Before it serves up more Luigi Mangiones.
The Luigi Mangione Saga.
Social media has at least partly lionized Luigi Mangione, who walked up behind United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson a month ago and shot him several times, leaving him dead at the scene. When Mangione was captured several days later, not only did he have the murder weapon in his possession but a how-to notebook and a manifesto in which he all but confessed to the crime.
My conclusion: he wanted to be caught, because he saw himself as a man with a mission.
Since the details of the case are well known, I won’t elaborate those further. I’ll just get to the mission, noting those things the case has highlighted.
Such as: America having the most expensive healthcare system in the world but being something like 42nd in life expectancy. Seems to me Mangione’s manifesto mentioned this.
Large numbers of Americans live in fear of being bankrupted by an unanticipated health emergency. For good reason. The healthcare system is the biggest cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S.
“The vast majority of Americans have, if not been personally impacted by denials of insurance, seen it happen to our family members,” states…
