Kimberly Steele

There is probably an Amish person or a Sentinelese islander who does not know about the recent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. To summarize, a greedy, obscenely wealthy one percenter was “adjusted” by a shooter during the swan song of 2024 while on his way to an annual meeting. This action panicked the loftiest members of the upper classes, who suddenly realized that everyone else hates them. For the rest of us, it is yet another installation in the Museum of Interesting Times.A young man named Luigi Mangione has been taken into custody and will likely serve time for the murder of Brian Thompson. Mangione looks as if he stepped out of an old GQ or PlayGirl cover. He’s gorgeous. Mangione was discovered six days after the shooting in a McDonalds in clothes that matched the shooter on the day of the shooting. He conveniently sported the alleged murder weapon and a manifesto when the now-fired McDonalds employee ratted him out.

Everything about the Mangione arrest seems fake. Many on the internet are dropping the name Lee Harvey Oswald. Like JFK’s assassination, there appears to have been a patsy, and that patsy seems to be Luigi Mangione. This wouldn’t be the first time the three letter organizations have attempted to control the narrative by shifting focus to a fall guy who may have wanted to do the murder but did not actually do it. If Mangione did it, he should probably plead insanity because only a crazy person would be stupid enough to reveal his naked face at the crime scene and to lurk around a random McDonalds until caught with incriminating evidence. I find it hard to believe that Mangione, who was subtle enough to properly distinguish between “it’s” and “its” in his manifesto would be so unsubtle as to broadcast his unmasked face within a few hundred miles of his crime.

Brian Thompson was facing a Department of Justice probe for insider trading. He dumped $15.1 million dollars worth of his company’s stock just in time before news of the anti-monopoly investigation went public. In other words, Mangione, whose family was more millionaire than billionaire, would not have hung out in the same circles as Thompson. Thompson’s hit seemed to be executed by a professional used to such work, not a hunky-but-lonely disgruntled Ivy League child seeking revenge for his mama. TikTokers called him John Wick and made funny jokes about the paltry $10K reward the NYPD was offering for tips leading to an arrest. Mangione is not John Wick’s level: he is far too emotional.
Fraud is a good way to make enemies in the highest echelons. Mike Lynch, the tech billionaire who allegedly misled investors to torch $8.8 billion dollars by trusting him, mysteriously died along with his family in an “unsinkable” superyacht in August 2024. A freak tornado off the Italian coast was the ostensible cause. That’s right, a freak tornado that just so happened to sink one boat that just so happened to have Lynch and his immediate family on it. This “accident” happened just as Lynch had skated away from an enormous lawsuit meant to nab him for fraud. The family was on the superyacht to celebrate their win. And then it sank. Sure… doesn’t sound suspicious at all. Nothing to see here folks!
We actually don’t know all that much about the Brian Thompson case. Like I said, the kerfuffle around long-lost Mario Kart mod LARP character Luigi Mangione seems awfully fishy. We know that Thompson was shot dead in broad daylight. We know that Thompson had a wife and kids. We also know he was the kind of soulless, corporate super-vampire that only late stage capitalism can create.

The most frightening creature in corporate America isn’t the NPC zombie that takes orders and subsists by degrading herself to survive in a call center. No, true horror lies in the Final Boss of the vile game, that rotund, avaricious, dead-eyed balloon man who points a fat finger to dictate barns full of horses and schools full of people for the hordes at his command to feast upon. His holy name is venerated among zombies and NPC villagers. He is just as much as an NPC as the rest of them, blindly stumbling through life like a mouse sniffing out cheese in a maze. The difference is that he got lucky. By a crazy combination of right place/ right time/ right person, he has risen to obscene wealth while others who may have done nearly the same things have stayed downtrodden. I don’t doubt Thompson believed he was helping people somehow because that is his corn-fed McNarrative that he shares with other absurdly rich CEOs.

To such a heartless freak, it’s nothing to have his company extort a pregnant woman’s family for a cool million because the ambulance she called took her to an out-of-network hospital. Bankrupting a middle class family so they can keep the dad in diabetes medication? That’s just another day at the races for the Brian Thompsons of the world. Letting a child die because her treatments keep getting stymied, delayed, or denied, or require baroque pre-authorizations? Check. Not bothering to lock down the call center when a disgruntled ex-employee is on his way to kill everyone inside it after icing two anchorpeople on live TV? That’s barely a blip on Brian Thompson’s radar. Threatening to fire said employees if they revealed the truth to the outside world? Also par for the course.

If there is a hell, and I believe there is (I don’t think it is permanent) then Brian Thompson will have to suffer it for longer than usual. Here on Earth, I am not afraid to say that I am one of many who is glad he is dead. We have too many of him here. It is time for his kind to go to ground.
The shooting of Brian Thompson was not good for the insurance industry, Big Pharma, or obscenely rich CEOs in general. If his murder story and hype are psyops, and I believe they are, then they are extremely stupid and badly thought out. Brian Thompson’s untimely death united both sides of the political fence. Without trying, entire factions of pink haired liberal Millennials have abruptly changed their tune about the Second Amendment after screaming to cancel it for the last decade or more. The twain that were never supposed to meet are now feeling their way towards discourse. If Luigi’s manifesto is fake, it hurts the insurance industry. If it is real, it hurts them more.

The trouble with assassinating CEOs is that we are not all cut out for it, and when we are, it isn’t usually as shocking or productive as the one allegedly carried out by Luigi Mangione. For us normies, we are better off looking into existing laws and working with them. Dr. Owen Muir, a patient advocate, says:

"The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 a.k.a. ERISA and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. These laws made it a personal fiduciary duty for the named fiduciaries CFO and the pension committee of any company to provide health benefits that are in your interest as a plan member. Every time you’ve got to get a prior authorization on something, that’s nonsense. Every time you have to pay more for a drug than it actually costs; anytime you’re forced to use a vertically integrated, wholly-owned subsidiary mail order pharmacy of the insurance company and its wholly owned pharmacy benefit manager itself; these are massive class action lawsuits with personal liability not covered under the directors and officers insurance policy of those companies. You have a right to health benefits that are in your interest. That’s the law, it’s time to start enforcing it.”

In many US states, when your insurance claim is denied, call the insurance company and say you are going to file a Fair Hearing Trial. When the insurance company offers you an appeal, say NO. This forces the insurance company to bring a Fair Hearing Trial to your state legislator in order to prove why you don’t need the service. Your doctor will have to provide evidence why you need the service. Often, merely saying “I want a Fair Hearing Trial and I will not accept any offer of appeal” will be enough to get them to honor your claim.

As someone who has been without health insurance for more than 20 years of my 51 year life, I think the best way of sticking it to insurance companies is to opt out of their products altogether. Health insurance is the worst of rackets, and in most cases, you’re going to go bankrupt faster if you have health insurance than if you don’t. Back in 1983 when a major car accident nearly took my mother’s life, coverage meant my father did not have to pay a penny despite her hospital stay lasting several months. The crapification of insurance has made it so the same accident would have taken our house and turned us into poor people if it happened today. Bankruptcy courts are full to the brim with people who have “good” insurance. Why do people keep paying the premiums? For the free vaccines?
If you truly want to kill the insurance industry and impoverish its CEO, stop buying insurance.

This is definitely going to become another essay, but the whole culture built up around testing for every old chronic disease is a foul and disgusting racket. I have had several loved ones fall victim to the side effects of colonoscopies, prostate exams, and biopsies. Testing causes irreparable damage and should never be done unless the situation could be life or death. Scraping prostates, cervixes, and various organs for analysis is a barbaric practice that should never be indulged or engaged. Don’t even get me started on radioactive tests such as X-rays and CT scans. Subjecting oneself to X-rays on a regular basis is moronic and those who do it should not be shocked when they end up with cancer.
I cannot agree with anyone who thinks that taking one’s health into one’s own hands is a radical act. Being willing to own yourself and your drives and to be responsible for keeping yourself healthy is sheer, cold, passionless logic. Yet all too many trip down the road of “it is my doctors’ responsibility to save me”. No, you must at least try to save yourself, and if you are not willing to do the work of improving your lifestyle, please save us all the head trip and shut up.

Beyond personal responsibility, any doctor worth his or her weight in crap needs to learn not to price-gouge the uninsured. I realize that the price-gouging of the un-insured has to do with fear of lawsuits. There needs to be an insurance-free contract, whether written or unwritten, where the patient agrees to be realistic about expectations and the doctor agrees to keep promises of healing down to earth. The patient and the doctor both have to agree not to abuse one another, and the pact should be taken far more seriously than a marriage. If pacts based on trust start occurring between doctors and patients, the insurance middlemen will be entirely shut out and there won’t be any assassins required to take out the trash.