Geniuses That Killed The Unabomber And Luigi Mangione

     So I'm going to have to write about the suspected shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, who by all estimates was always the smartest person in the room. he graduated as the valedictorian of his Prep School and finished a bachelor's simultaneous to a master's in computer engineering at Penn State. If his manifesto turns out to be really his, then the extremely short note says that he had to step up and do something because the denial rates in healthcare had been exposed for decades and nothing had changed.

     And then there is the connection to Mangione’s review of Ted Kaczynski’s book critiquing capitalism, where again, Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as the Unabomber was also the smartest person in the room, he was accepted into Harvard at the age of 16, became a mathematics professor and an author, but also terrorized universities and airlines from 1978 through 1995, killing 3 people in the process and injuring dozens more.

     Ted Kaczynski was apparently tested as a child with a 167 IQ, and for Mangione to have been the valedictorian of his Prep School class where he is remembered by classmates as being the smartest student in the school, and then to simultaneously get a bachelor's and a master's in computer engineering indicates that he too has an extremely high IQ, perhaps over 150 IQ. When Mangione started a book club in Hawaii people were all onboard until the Unabomber’s book was suggested reading, then half the people quit the group. What is it with literal geniuses telling the morons around them that nothing changes until you kill people? Even then nothing changes, but if you want to get your message out like Mangione did then it worked.

     In the internet age the online response to the brazen daylight execution of the CEO of the country's largest health insurer (who was paid 100 million dollars a year and who instituted changes that increased health claim denials from doctors) was astonishing. By the time of Brian Thompson’s execution United Healthcare had been caught denying Medicare Advantage claims & including misinformation on 45% of all denials that made them impossible to appeal & automated the denials through the use of computers. Then United Healthcare programmed an Artificial Intelligence to assumedly optimize profits for shareholders, and so the AI had what they called a, “90% error rate,” with denials of regular health insurance claims, and only 1% were overturned on appeal. United Healthcare was denying on average 32% of all claims at the time of their CEO’s assassination, with the next nearest insurance at 23% then down to 14% for everyone else except for Kaiser Permanente who only denies 7% of all medical claims submitted by doctors.

     Why so low for Kaiser Permanente? Because Kaiser is a non-profit who is tax exempt, while everyone else is for profit and companies like United Healthcare are also publicly traded, with United stock worth over $400 a share. United Healthcare made 22 billion dollars in profits alone in 2022, and while Kaiser and United are both huge companies, Kaiser only functions in 8 states, while United spent years buying up all of their competitors so that they are the only option in some states. This led the federal government to investigate United for antitrust violations, maybe why the monopoly money was left in the backpack in New York.

     Luigi Mangione seems to have gotten far more than he wanted, with the public response to United’s statement about their sorrow at the loss of their CEO getting 82,000 reactions, 76,000 of which were laughing face emojis, which is 92.6%.

     It would have been very hard to have gotten a conviction against Robin Hood if he had ever been tried in front of a jury of his peers, instead of at the whims of the Sheriff of Nottingham. So good luck getting a conviction against Luigi Mangione, who is far more likely to walk free with a jury nullification “not guilty” verdict, because in this day and age it will be hard to find 12 Americans who have not been touched by the greed of healthcare companies. If they can't unanimously decide one way or the other then it will be a hung jury and they will bring in another jury, so if the first grand jury in New York wants to have their voices heard at all they will have to come to a unanimous decision one way or the other, to decide if Luigi Mangione is guilty of 2nd degree murder and should serve 25 years, or even if they think that he killed Thompson, for a variety of reasons they could decide to render a verdict of “not guilty” and that Luigi Mangione should walk free.