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 docum...