Luigi, a Year Later: How to Build a Movement Against Parasitic Health Insurance Giants | The Widespread Support for Mangione Shows America is Ready to Mobilize to Build a More Humane Health Care System.
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Luigi, a Year Later: How to Build a Movement Against Parasitic Health Insurance Giants | The Widespread Support for Mangione Shows America is Ready to Mobilize to Build a More Humane Health Care System.
Source: OkayButFoRealz
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I want a system that’s fair to everyone. Nobody should have to worry about medical or dental issues. I shouldn’t go to the hospital and have to worry about the cost, or get a bill that’s convoluted and confusing. Certain things should be a human right.
Yeah. The fact that Trump, MAGA, and the GOP are killing healthcare subsidies less than a year after Americans were cheering the murder of a Healthcare CEO in the streets is some WILD levels of out of touch.
“America is ready”
But that’s not how it works. The leadership has been captured by a king and his destructive incompetent zealots.
Even IF democrats manage to get back to power (big IF) and manage to gather enough powers to apply their policies (another bigger IF with the current SCOTUS), it will take several mandates to even get back to where we were in 2016.
And yet the democratic party has not seized the opportunity. I wonder why…
There is no “More Humane Health Care System” that is not single payer government funded.
When [your government is sabotaging humane health care systems elsewhere](https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/us-policy-challenges-australia-s-pbs), I doubt anything will change in the US.
I am reminded every time I interact with our health care system how much it sucks. I went to a specialist for a follow up on a small issue on my foot. I spent $100 in co-pays for an entire thing that took 10 minutes, about 30 seconds of the doctor’s time. And it’s not a lot of money, but it also is? But this is nothing to my wife’s occasionally crippling back pain that sent her to the ER twice, costing like $2,000 each time, to be told to go lay down and take Tylenol and wait a few days.
It’s just a broken fucking system.
I will never get over how shocked newscasters and politicians were that there was not much public outrage of the shooting. There were tons of articles with headlines like “reveals dissatisfaction with the US healthcare system.” How insulated is your fucking bubble that it is a surprise to you that people hate the way healthcare is done in this country?
Remember when we thought he started a revolution? Those were simpler times.
until we get single payer or some type of universal healthcare, the US is not a first world country.
We’re just a third world country (what Trump would call “garbage”) with a very powerful military.
Shooting people in the back is not a political statement. It’s murder.
Wow, it’s been a year?
The cope that’s gonna happen when he eventually gets sent away for 30+ will be hilarious
Step 1: Don’t vote for any politician, regardless of party, who accepts money from the insurance lobby. No matter what they say on the podium, if they’re taking money from corporations, they’re not working for us.
If neither party is willing to draw that line in the sand and say “We are the party to support working class values and we can’t muddy that objective with corporate funding. Until those corporations pay living wages top to bottom, they shouldn’t have any say in how we run our country” then we need to start voting for Independents and finally get some representation in DC.
Both sides are not the same, but both sides have continually enacted legislation that benefits corporations and the mega-wealthy on the backs of working class labor.
There’s a broad sentiment of dissatisfaction. Even centrists and some MAGA are not happy with the state of healthcare. Many don’t seem capable of focusing that dissatisfaction though. They don’t like the status quo but universal healthcare is communism or something so we can’t do that either.
“Ready to mobilize to build a fairer system” lol no, people want a revolution
You first have to dismantle the monopolies and insurance companies that make unheard of money bankrupting sick people. It’s the same dynamic why the US doesn’t have high speed rail, or more renewable energies. Airline and oil companies block all those initiatives and that’s the tip of it. So many things should be better but will never happen bc huge industries make so much money from the status quo.
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Most Americans with a bit of brains support some form of single payer healthcare.
Unfortunately none of our voices matter until they feel physically threatened.
Lol at this whole take.
>If we step outside of our usual political bubbles and into a direct action movement to assert the universal right to health care
And if we can summon unicorns and miracles then maybe all the fascists who cheer as poor children starve to death at home and around the world will suddenly care about our healthcare more than their profit! Fucking delusional bullshit.
Your takeaway cannot possibly be that you should work within the system to affect change. That shit is over. This is a class war, the rich are killing us however they can get away with it, and when they do it it’s legal. Appealing to the better angels of their nature is fucking laughable.
Remember, the social safety net was the compromise.
Historically, prior Luigis were the only alternative when people were angry, disenfranchised and hopeless.
Personification of “he’s out of line, but he’s right.”
Think of the CEOs people! If we don’t address this health care crisis we are going to lose more of them.
This title is wild. We’re stuck with MAGA for 3+ years and MAGA is willfully allowing healthcare premiums to explode in January 2026.
[Obamacare tax credits look likely to expire as Trump rules out an extension](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/obamacare-premium-subsidies-likely-expire-trump-opposes-extension-rcna244650) – Nov 18, 2025
Until Americans vote out the dystopian GOP party there is no hope for healthcare reform.
You guys are still romanticizing a murderer… insane
Why only against health insurance giants? There are tons of other types of companies hoarding wealth that could be out to much better use. It should be a much broader movement.
Healthcare is a great start. But we shouldn’t limit ourselves in what type of company we protest.
Can we have a more humane everything? Not just healthcare system. The crazy variant of unregulated, christo-fascist, technocratic capitalism going on right now isn’t sustainable for the nation long term.
If Americans wanted universal health care (like every other wealthy developed country in the world already provides for its citizens) then they have had ample opportunity to elect people like Bernie Sanders who would get it done.
Yet Americans in 2024 handed complete control of the federal government to the GOP whose 3-part health care plan has been, and will always be:
1. Be rich.
2. If you’re not rich, then don’t get sick.
3. If you’re not rich and get sick, then die quickly.
Not just healthcare. The whole damn system.
Nothing has changed… except it has gotten worst. He surrendered way too soon.
It shows a lot of people are fucking stupid. Political violence is bad until the victim is someone we dont like.
America might be ready, but America’s kings and queens (regular billionaires) are not in the mood so is not going to happen, not until they are forced to.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Literally every other developed country has socialized healthcare
I think it shows they’re ready to support a lot more than that…
Our healthcare system is really a for-profit death panel. Even MAGA needs healthcare.