Leftist film director Michael Moore wants to “pour gasoline” on the anger being directed at health insurance companies which he believes is “1000% justified.”
The 70-year-old producer and author came out with a lengthy response after he was reportedly mentioned in the manifesto found on Luigi Mangione when he was arrested. Mangione is accused of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson who was gunned down in New York City.
Moore insisted he did not condone the assassination of the CEO – or anyone else – but he did acknowledge the “anger” at the insurance companies. The director of the 2007 documentary “Sicko” was reportedly mentioned by the suspect as someone who “illuminated the corruption and greed” in the healthcare industry.
“It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer,” Moore wrote in a Substack post published Friday.
“Do I condemn murder? That’s an odd question. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I condemned the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people and the senseless murder of our own American soldiers at the hands of our American government,” Moore wrote, contending that his past remarks and his films prove he does not condone violence.
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore https://t.co/VkHq9x7IBK
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 13, 2024
“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,” he continued. “I am not one of them. 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.”
But he argued that the anger has been building for decades.
“Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart, and throwing it all away. We need to replace this system with something sane, something caring and loving — something that keeps people alive,” he wrote.
He believes now is a time “where we can create that change.”
“The solution is simple,” he wrote. “Throw this entire system in the trash, dismantle this immoral business that profits off the lives of human beings and monetizes our deaths, that murders us or leaves us to die, destroy it all, and instead, in its place, give us all the same health care that every other civilized country on Earth has: Universal, free, compassionate, and full of life.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.
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