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As Luigi Mangione Is Lionized, Will Hate for Insurers Produce Any Change?

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    Dec 13, 2024

    With a suspect now charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the fierce debate continues over what the crime has revealed about simmering dissatisfaction with the U.S. health insurance system. 

    Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland family, was captured on Dec. 9 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after being recognized in a McDonald’s restaurant. Mangione is facing a murder charge related to Thompson’s Dec. 4 death. Police said the 50-year-old executive was gunned down by a shooter who was “lying in wait” outside the Midtown Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, was set to hold its annual Investor Day conference.  

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    • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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