Michael Moore says he wants to pour 'gasoline' on anger at health insurance companies after CEO shooting [View all]
Source: The Independent
Friday 13 December 2024 22:29 GMT
Social critic and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said in a Substack post that he wants to "pour gasoline" on the anger Americans have expressed against the nation's health insurance industry.
Moore wrote Friday that fury directed at the US health insurance industry was "1000 percent justified." Following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week, some Americans have taken to social media and other outlets to express their frustration with the state of private health insurance in the nation.
Moore — whose documentaries include criticisms of the US war on terror, gun violence, and health care, among other topics — was mentioned by name in the manifesto of Luigi Mangione, the man police believe killed Thompson. Mangione allegedly described Moore as someone who "illuminated the corruption and greed" in the health care industry in his 2007 film Sicko. “It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer,” Moore wrote in his Substack piece.
He noted that he had been receiving media requests, including some that were essentially asking him to "condemn murder." “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.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-moore-anger-health-insurance-shooting-b2664233.html
Came out almost 20 years ago and I remember getting the DVD.
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