By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-14 23:54:05 | Updated at 2024-12-15 03:04:02
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Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore callously declared he wants to “pour gasoline” on the anger directed at the health insurance industry after Luigi Mangione allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The documentarian, whose films have criticized gun violence, health care and the war on terror, condemned the cold-blooded slaying — but then went on to proclaim the unhinged rage targeting medical insurers “long overdue.”
“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. I am not one of them,” Moore wrote on his Substack Friday.
“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 bizarrely claimed insurance companies and their executives “have more blood on their hands than a thousand 9/11 terrorists.”
The brazen murder has raised furor toward the health insurance industry, with many outrageously fawning over the suspected shooter and reveling in the tragedy on social media. A look-alike contest was even held in the Big Apple last weekend before Mangione was caught.
The Oscar winner’s post came just days after police recovered a handwritten manifesto-type document from the 26-year-old alleged assassin that seemingly referenced Moore, while also accusing UnitedHealthcare and health insurance companies of corporate greed.
Mangione wrote that “many have illuminated the corruption and greed” of the healthcare industry.
Moore’s 2007 film “Sicko” attacked America’s health insurance industry and contrasted it with that of other Western countries.
“It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer,” said Moore, who made his documentary available on YouTube.
“People across America are not celebrating the brutal murder of a father and two kids from Minnesota. They are screaming for help, they are telling you what’s wrong, they are saying that this system is not just and it is not right and it cannot continue. They want retribution. They want justice. They want health care.”
The “Bowling for Columbine” director pushed for lawmakers to instead “dismantle” the system and provide citizens with free, universal health care.
Mangione — a University of Pennsylvania graduate — is accused of fatally shooting Thompson as the 50-year-old CEO walked to the Hilton hotel on Sixth Avenue, where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company was holding its annual investor conference on Dec. 4.
The alleged gunman led police on a five-day manhunt that ended when he was taken into custody at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Monday after an employee recognized him and called the police.
Mangione is facing murder charges and is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on gun and forgery charges, of which he has pleaded not guilty.
