“We pay more people to deny care than to give it. 1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care.
“If the purpose of ‘health care’ is to keep people alive, then what is the purpose of denying people health care? Other than to kill them? I definitely condemn that kind of murder.”
Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse after being arrested last week. Credit: Benjamin B. Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP
Moore called for the replacement of the system with “the same health care that every other civilised country on Earth has”.
Police believe that Mangione’s motive was animosity towards the health insurance industry and corporate America.
They found a three-page, handwritten document that expressed disdain for the health business. His Reddit comments indicated he had been struggling for years with increasingly debilitating back pain.
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In the week after the shooting, “Wanted” posters with the names and faces of health care executives have appeared on the streets of New York, while hit-lists have circulated online with warnings that industry leaders should be afraid.
Florida woman Briana Boston has been charged with threatening to conduct an act of terrorism for allegedly threatening her health insurance provider during a phone conversation.
Police say she used the words “Delay, deny, depose”, referring to the words found on the bullet casings found at the scene of Thompson’s killing, adding “You people are next” at the end of phone call in which she unsuccessfully challenged Blue Cross Blue Shield’s denial of her insurance claim.
