Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has declared that the anger shown toward the health care industry is justified and that he wants to stoke that anger in a new post.
Writing on it Substack page On Friday, Moore noted that he does not condone the killing, but insisted that the anger people feel toward the industry should be amplified in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“The anger is 1,000% justified. It's long overdue for the media to cover it. It's not new. It's been boiling over. And I'm not going to smother it or tell people to shut up. I want it to flow.” Gasoline on that anger.” He said. He also included a free YouTube upload of his 2007 documentary “Sicko,” which takes aim at the U.S. pharmaceutical and health insurance industries.
He added: “The hands of insurance companies and their executives are stained with the blood of more than a thousand terrorists in the September 11 attacks.” “That's why they're scrubbing their executives' profiles from their websites and putting up fences around their headquarters.”
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Michael Moore says he wants to pour “gasoline” on the anger millions of Americans feel toward the health care industry, saying it is guilty of killing people. (Andrew Chen/Getty Images)
Moore's words come nearly a week after Maryland resident and Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged Thompson murder Outside the Manhattan Hotel.
The shooting sparked a wave of condemnation and horror at the killing, but also celebration among some Choose empathy With Americans seeing themselves as victims of the country's health care system.
Moore's article indicated that he was in the latter camp.
“In his statement, he points out how I highlighted corruption and greed, meaning people should go to my work to understand the complexity — and power-hungry abuses — within our current system,” Moore wrote, adding that he has since been mentioned in the suspect’s statement, and is asked. Constantly asked whether he condemned Thompson's murder.
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Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan. (BUSINESS WIRE | NYPD Crime Stoppers)
“Hmm. Was he convicted of murder? That's a strange question,” he wrote. “On Fahrenheit 9/11, I condemned the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and the senseless killing of our American soldiers at the hands of our American government.”
He added: “I am 35 years old As a directorDid I say or do anything that implied I condoned the murder?”
However, Moore chose to focus his condemnation on health care companies, saying, “Here's a sad statistic for you: In the United States, we have 1.4 million people working as health care refusers, versus just 1 million doctors in 2018.” The whole country!”
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Luigi Mangione screams as officers handcuff him as he arrives for his extradition hearing at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. (David De Delgado for Fox News Digital)
Moore wrote that he supports the anger people have shown toward health care companies since Thompson's death.
“Yes, I condemn murder, and that is why I condemn America's broken, vile, greedy, bloodthirsty, immoral, immoral health care industry, and every one of the CEOs responsible for it,” he declared.
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