According to reporting by Joe Marino, Ben Kochman and Matt Troutman last week, health insurance leaders pressured the DOJ to make an example of Luigi Mangione by bringing federal charges against him in a surprise announcement that caught his lawyers
You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn't the normal way of things??
the top three DOJ officials under Attorney General Merrick Garland have all represented massive healthcare companies during their respective stints in private practice before joining the DOJ.
Aside from the BlueCross patients Luigi helped... for now... these people keep demonstrating how important what he did was.
Don't let anyone sucker you into believing otherwise. They're in emergency mode.
Nothing can improve until we get someone in power, or have a revolution that allows us to fundamentally change the perverse shape and incentive structure of our economy.
In no universe should a self serving MBA take home more than a teacher or a nurse, let alone multiple doctors. When you reward selfishness and punish prosocial vocations, you live in the US.