The person of interest nabbed in the in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is reportedly a left-wing Unabomber fan from Maryland with an intense hatred of the medical community.
Thompson was assassinated in cold blood outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.
The gunman used a suppressor-equipped firearm to shoot Thompson at point blank multiple times before fleeing.
“Tech whiz” Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, “with a ghost gun that uses 9mm bullets, a silencer, a US passport, four fake IDs with names” and a manifesto “critical of the healthcare industry” the New York Post reported.
The manifesto consisted of two-and-a-half handwritten pages that mirrored the quotes that Mangione posted on his Goodreads account from wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by planting deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996, sources said.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
“Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.’’
The manifesto said the suspect acted alone, sources said.
A suspect matching Mangione’s appearance was seen on surveillance images near the crime scene.
According to law enforcement sources, Mangione’s online footprint indicates an interest in anti-capitalist and climate-change causes.
The suspect was valedictorian of his 2016 graduating class at an all-boys prep school in Baltimore, according to the Post. Tuition at the Gilman School, where Mangione played soccer, is nearly $40,000 a year.
He said at the time of graduation that he planned to seek a degree in artificial intelligence, focused on the areas of computer science and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania, according to an interview with the Baltimore Fishbowl.
The tech hotshot graduated cum laude from the private Ivy League institution in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer and Information Science in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He also completed a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, his profile states.
His LinkedIn suggests he is a data engineer at a car company based in California, although he lists his current home as Honolulu in Hawaii.
Mangione reportedly founded a student-run video game development club, now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.
The suspect allegedly despised the medical community because of the way an ailing relative was treated at the hospital.
The problem is not United Health Care or any other medical insurance company. It is the Affordable Care Act, known as Obama Care, which has made medical insurance and medical care both unaffordable and insensitive.
Insurance companies are no different than any other corporation where profit is the goal. That is what investors expect and most investors are the stock or shareholders. In a real free market economy, that provided services tailored to what the insured needed and wanted, the policy costs would come down. Insurance costs, since the advent of Obama Care, have risen 250%. Hospitals charge what they need to charge to survive and since America has become an entitlement society with open borders the cost of services by those who pay have to also absorb the cost of those who don’t pay.
Prior to the Biden Administration the Obama Administration set the ground rules for lying. Everyone assumed that the price of insurance would go down and you could keep what insurance you had along with your doctor and pay less. Did Americans learn anything when it came to the vaccine (jab) scam? No, they still drank the same Kool-Aid.
Private insurance availability in a real free market, minus government dictums and free care for all of the indigent, would cause costs to drop dramatically and affordable services to rise exponentially because insurance companies and doctors would be in competition with themselves.
If anything government services, for the sake of compassion, like the VA, could serve the truly uninsurable. Furthermore insurance companies might provide a savings and investment program separate from the medical side so that if you don’t use the former the investment portion would grow and be available for retirement. Obviously people would take much better care of their health as a result.