Anti-Capitalist on The Rebellion Against The Elites: where can the reader place Luigi Mangione?
Dec 12, 2024
Editor: Can The Economist headline and sub-headline even surprise?
Headline: Message in a bullet Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companies
Sub-headline: The man accused of killing Brian Thompson gets American health care wrong
Editor: First comes the shocking, to the staid readers of this Capitalist Rag, in its first sentences, I’ll will provide the first senteces on each paragraph:
Homicide investigations are like bankruptcies: they come along gradually and then all at once.
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Mr Mangione, of course, is legally innocent until proven guilty.
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Despite his writings, Mr Mangione did not seem determined to get caught.
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Mr Mangione now faces five criminal charges in New York City, including second-degree murder.
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What could have inspired the killing?
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Biographical details add some context. Mr Mangione belongs to a wealthy Italian-American family from Baltimore.
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If his goal was to get America discussing its health-care system, Mr Mangione seems sure to succeed.
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Editor: The data that this News-magazine relies upon is: the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy think-tank. Should that signal that The Economist is not just a friend of Capital but its apologist?
Certainly frustration with insurers is growing. According to a survey conducted last year by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy think-tank, in the preceding year 18% of Americans were refused care they thought would be covered, and 27% had insurers pay out less than expected. Two-fifths say that they have had to go without health care because of insurance limitations. In recent years denial rates have been rising, while insurers have adopted new tactics (such as the use of artificial intelligence to make determinations) that are deeply unpopular and have produced some shocking errors. Knowing what will be covered or denied is extraordinarily difficult, even for professionals. Around half of Americans say that they are unsure how their coverage works (see chart 1). The other half are overconfident.
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America has fewer doctors per capita than almost all other rich countries, and over one in four doctors earns more than $425,000. Yet a tight federal cap on residencies stops more being trained. And much treatment offered to Americans (and either paid for or refused by insurers) simply would not be offered at all in more statist countries. Mr Mangione’s back surgery is in fact a revealing case in point. The details are unclear, including whether insurance paid for his treatment. But his Reddit account suggests that he shopped around doctors before persuading one to conduct a “spinal fusion” surgery. Elsewhere, the number of such surgeries has declined over the past decade because research shows them to be ineffective compared to simpler treatments. Yet in America the number has continued to rise.
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Editor : What remaines is the fact of the real and utterly unmentioned Rebellion Against The Elites, The Reader might consider the recent election of Donald Trump and the abysmal defeat of Harris, as instructive about The Rebellion Against The Elites? As much as you may didaine it! Think of the gilets jaunes in France, The Canadian Truckers Strike, the Netherland’s Farmers Strike, The Farmers Revolt in France, and the recent Farmers Strike in Britain , led by Jeremy Clarkson! I’m sure I’ve forgotten more that I recall! It does not take much thinking, and or Historical Imagination, to place Luigi Mangione in that Rebellion Against The Elites?
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