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[-] superkret@feddit.org 138 points 5 days ago

He did everything right and believed in the system.
And then he himself, or someone close to him, got a diagnosis that ensured life-long medical debt and poverty.

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago

He seems to have had a spinal surgery and had pins put in his spine. Books he's looked at seems to indicate chronic pain and fights with insurance companies.

It was exactly what every single person thought who wasn't paid to think otherwise.

[-] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 59 points 5 days ago

Had exact same fusion performed.

4 screws, 2 rods to connect them, and a 3-d sintered titanium cage between the vertebrae.

I can attest to the chronic pain and wanting to armor a bulldozer

[-] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

chronic pain conditions are something our healthcare and disability systems specifically don't handle well and I haven't met anyone suffering from them that doesn't want to [redacted].

my experience with it has been nebulous and hard to diagnose but incredibly disabling. certain treatments like acupuncture or cupping that specifically target fascia, or shit like somatic therapy, aren't really legitimized by insurance so absent of a diagnosis with a known intervention your choices are to go to a pain clinic and take something possibly addictive or pay your way into alt medicine providers who can either be exactly who you need or hokey grifters.

and I can only imagine the hell that insurance companies put you through for surgical interventions they are supposed to cover but definitely don't want to. reading my partner's rejection letters from her company disability provider has been fucking fascinating

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 308 points 6 days ago

This claims to be his story. I haven't verified it, but I have no reason not to believe it. Basically, UHC tortured his mother for years through denial of care, then they did the same to him.

I would note that he is 26 years old: He likely just aged out of his parents' health insurance policy, and I would guess that he can't get decent coverage on his own due to his pre-existing condition.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 105 points 6 days ago

Because of the ACA (Obamacare) requirements, he can't be refused or charged more for coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

Whether that insurance denies claims for treatment, however, is still very much in play. I've heard you should ask the names and certification of the person or people responsible for the denial of your claim, in writing. Because a lot of the time it's an algorithm or an unqualified peon, and the company can get in trouble for that.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago

the company can get in trouble for that.

Tricky to press charges when you're dying

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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago

I'm deeply curious about the source

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 62 points 6 days ago

I, too, am curious. But, I read this part of a short story in The Things They Carried, many, many, years ago, and it stuck with me:

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, "Is it true?" and if the answer matters, you've got your answer.

For example, we've all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast and saves his three buddies.

Is it true?

The answer matters.

You'd feel cheated if it never happened. Without the grounding reality, it's just a trite bit of puffery, pure Hollywood, untrue in the way all such stories are untrue. Yet even if it did happen - and maybe it did, anything's possible even then you know it can't be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth. Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. For example: Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it's a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. Before they die, though, one of the dead guys says, "The fuck you do that for?" and the jumper says, "Story of my life, man," and the other guy starts to smile but he's dead.

That's a true story that never happened.

I don't know that this article was written by Luigi Mangione, or if Luigi Mangione killed the CEO. But, I do know that this story is true, even if it never happened.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 45 points 6 days ago

I really hope this is genuine, because whoever wrote this did an amazing job of conveying their feelings and experiences in a very short piece of literature.

[-] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Doubt. Doesn't include any of the statements authorities have quoted. They also mentioned the handwritten manifesto was 262 words.

Even if this isn't the manifesto, his family had money, this reads like it was written by a high schooler, and it was posted yesterday.

real one was just posted https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

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[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 148 points 6 days ago

It just shows anyone can do the right thing

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 178 points 6 days ago

Is chilling how thenwhole internet is fed up a story of a man before his sentence. If this guy is innocent his whole life is already exposed forever just for memes and a penny. We are the big brother and we suck.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 128 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The "we did it reddit!" phrase comes from redditors trying to track down suspects of the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him and family, including death threats.

It was the wrong person.

Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.

This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 61 points 6 days ago

it wasnt the internet that exposed him to the media, it was the police and feds who sold him out to the media. There is no "we did it" here. "They" did it.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 days ago

Fair, this situation is different in a lot of ways

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[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

im big skeptical of the photos and videos they've been circulating. everything about this investigation is sus.

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

Yeah the real guy is gone, the cops are finding someone to blame it on because they are afraid of continuing to totally fumble the bag.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 98 points 6 days ago

The simplest answer is he was pissed at UHC for denying medical claims for him or the ones he loved, and the CEO had dialed up the denials so an obvious target.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago

iirc on one of his social medias the banner was a back X-ray with medical nails or screws in it. I assume he (or someone he knows) was having back issues and got denied.

[-] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

His former college roommate said he always struggled with back problems which is one reason he tried to work out so much

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 37 points 5 days ago

People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.

Based.

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 44 points 5 days ago

Back pain is a hell of a drug.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 110 points 6 days ago

The privatized healthcare system happened.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 61 points 6 days ago

ITT: some really healthy skepticism over some of the “evidence” allegedly written by the shooter. I’m kinda impressed. Some other lemmy communities are leaning harder in to conspiracy ideas (planted evidence or whatever), but quite a few of the comments here are taking the time to analyze the info.

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 89 points 6 days ago

Someone said he was in a surfing accident and needed pins/plates put in his back. His profile (https://i.imgur.com/2g1ZGBa.png) shows an X-ray of a back that's had surgery done on it.

He's 26 and just come off his parents' healthcare. [Except his family is wealthy, so I'm not sure if this one is relevant or not.]

[-] devils_advocate@sh.itjust.works 76 points 6 days ago

You can be wealthy and not be "pay your own medical bills" wealthy.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 44 points 6 days ago

Apparently his mother was also being screwed around by UHC.

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 27 points 6 days ago

Sometimes you can have wealthy parents and still barely make ends meet

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 71 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Either Luigi ain't the guy, or bro or someone he knows got cancer or some shit and had United health insurance deny life-saving drugs/operations.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I saw a post earlier supposedly showing Luigi's ~~neck/upper back~~ lower back X-rays after some sort of surgery to install support implants of some sort.

https://lemmy.world/post/22966582

Disclaimer: Just like most everyone else online, I can't confirm or deny a damn thing.

Edit: I stand corrected, that was his lower back.

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago
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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 days ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 76 points 6 days ago

The libertarian flag is yellow and black. The anarchist flag is black and red.

The implication is that a libertarian only looks like an anarchist by proximity. As soon as they're left to their own devices, they're revealed to be Christian Nationalists (the black symbol on white robes is used by the Klan.)

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 days ago
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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Most ancaps/right-libertarians are often just right-authoritarians that like drugs, addicted to loli-hentai (although this one is falling out of fashion due to "nofap" reasons), weirdly "free speech extremists", etc. Exceptions may apply.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago

I think labeling is so fucking stupid. Like I get that it’s easier to shove a label on people and yourself, but we’re seriously assigning an entire fucking socio-political economic identity to this kid from like 2 Goodreads reviews and a few Facebook posts?

Gimme a fucking break

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[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 38 points 6 days ago

He was activated as a sleeper agent by the [redacted]

[-] MrEff@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Two lines from the bottom they are missing:

Discovered DOTA2

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This implies the existence of two other CEO assassins working the Broadway and Wall Street lanes

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Law Abiding Citizen 2 plotline. Honestly this event really remind me of that movie, all those killed is worthy of "ohh no...anyway"

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

The CIA used MKULTRA techniques to brainwash him and do the assassination as a test run.

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[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Activation of The Division has begun.

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