Luigi Mangione, accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was not insured through his victim’s company: sources

Luigi Mangione, accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Hilton, was not insured through his victim’s company, police sources told the Daily News.
Investigators have not uncovered any evidence that Mangione was insured through UnitedHealthcare, with sources saying the fatal hit was not personal and that the alleged assassin was primarily driven by a desire to spur health care reform.
When police arrested Mangione inside a McDonalds in Altoona, Pa., on Monday, he was found in possession of a 260-word handwritten manifesto outlining his issues with the U.S. health care system and UnitedHealthcare specifically.
Mangione’s manifesto notes that Americans pay more in health care expenses than in any other country but that their life expectancy is ranked at No. 42 worldwide. He also wrote that UnitedHealthcare’s value is ranked behind only a few of the country’s most profitable companies, including Apple, said sources.
The note criticized companies that “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it,” and singled out UnitedHealthcare to note that while the insurer’s profits have grown, American life expectancy has not increased, according to The New York Times.
Mangione’s outlook on the industry may have been shaped by his own experience with chronic back pain. R.J. Martin, who founded a co-living space called Surfbreak in Honolulu where Mangione lived for six months, told the Times he was suffering from a spinal misalignment.
Mangione goes on to rail in his manifesto about the disparity between America’s wealth and the quality of its health care, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday.
“I had an opportunity to read the manifesto,” Kenny said on “Good Morning America.”
“He does make some indication that he’s frustrated with the health care system in the United States,” said Kenny. “So he was writing a lot about his disdain for corporate American and in particular the health care industry.”
Mangione, 26, was charged with possession of a ghost gun after a five-day manhunt. He was later charged with the murder of Thompson, who was shot Dec. 4 in Midtown Manhattan shortly before an investors conference.