Mega-podcaster Joe Rogan has suggested that the lack of public sympathy for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is due to the “dirty business” he was involved in.
Rogan, 57, spoke with director Quentin Tarantino and producer Roger Avary on Tuesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” during which they discussed CEO killer Luigi Mangione. They started the show off briefly by discussing the photo.
“I don’t think this guy is a professional,” Rogan said in an episode recorded Monday, about a week before assassination suspect Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a five-day manhunt. I spoke inside.
“If I had to guess, I would say this guy was a fucked up guy,” the UFC commentator said. “Apparently, that company is very bad at denying claims.”
Next, Mr. Avary and Mr. Logan pointed to the staggering denial rate of health insurance claims that UnitedHealthcare allegedly makes to its policyholders.
“I don’t think anyone would cry too hard about (Thompson),” Avary said.
“Maybe his family, but that’s all,” Logan replied.
“It’s a dirty, dirty business. The insurance business is very messy. It’s awful. Especially health insurance. It’s awful.”
Mangione is accused of fatally shooting 50-year-old CEO Thompson as the latter was heading to a Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor meeting. has been done.
The suspect was reported missing by the family of a prominent Maryland real estate agent last month after undergoing back surgery and becoming unreachable.
The bright 26-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania after a five-day manhunt and was found with a ghost gun, a mask, a U.S. passport, and a rambling text related to the ambush. discovered.
What we know about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson, CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was shot to death in a “brazen and targeted attack” outside a luxury midtown hotel on Wednesday, police said. Mr. Thompson was appointed CEO of UnitedHealth in April 2021. He joined the company in 2004. He was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Justice Department. Thompson’s wife, Paulette, said she had received threats before her husband was killed. Thompson’s shooting sparked an online frenzy and even spurred a tasteless lookalike contest in New York. A dignitary was arrested by police inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The suspect was identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, of Towson, Maryland. He was an Ivy League graduate who hated the medical world.
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He was charged with murder in New York on Monday night after authorities in Pennsylvania announced charges of unlicensed possession of a firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police earlier in the day.
Law enforcement agencies are investigating a three-page manifesto-style document in Mangione’s possession.
The alleged manifesto included blistering remarks against “parasitic” health insurance companies and expressions of disdain for corporate greed and power.
The Ivy League graduate also reportedly wrote that the United States has the most expensive health care system in the world and that “our average life expectancy” has not increased while profits for big corporations continue to increase.
A handwritten document allegedly found with Mangione included a line claiming Mangione acted alone.
“Dear Fed, I will keep this brief because I respect the Fed’s commitment to our country. To avoid a lengthy investigation, I am not cooperating with anyone. We state this clearly,” the document says, sources said.
Details have emerged as police continue to investigate the motive behind the cold-blooded killing. Among them was whether Mr. Mangione developed a vendetta against the medical industry after suffering from chronic back pain.
Mangione is being held in a Pennsylvania jail while he fights extradition to New York.
