All y’all are assuming a lot.
They may not have been covered by insurance at all, but simply paid cash for everything.
But that doesn’t mean you necessarily get care – or, more specifically, get the results you want. Chronic pain is very difficult to cure. Sometimes there is no cure. You can throw a bunch of money at it, and get very little useful relief, other than a drug problem, perhaps.
But, more specifically, you’re just assuming there is some rational motive behind Luigi Mangione’s acts.
He may be mentally ill, you know, with his acts having little connection to reality. There may have been only a tenuous connection between his family’s experience with healthcare and what he wrote and did.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/luigi-mangione-family-baltimore-a47ac28e
Luigi Mangione’s Mother Spent Months Searching for a Son Who Didn’t Want to Be Found
Before Kathy Mangione became known as the mother of a suspected assassin, she was just a parent looking for her son.
She had desperately searched for 26-year-old Luigi Mangione for the better part of a year, according to people close to the family. One said that he “went off the grid six months to a year ago and wasn’t communicating with anybody,” and that his distraught mother was doing all she could to find him. Another said the Ivy League engineering graduate was “MIA for about eight months.”
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Over the past year, the family was at a loss for where Luigi was or what he was doing, according to the people close to the Mangiones. In the fall, his relatives emailed many of his friends to seek their help. One friend posted to Luigi on X, “Hey, are you ok? Nobody has heard from you in months, and apparently your family is looking for you.” In November, his mother reportedly called the San Francisco Police Department to report her son missing.
“She would have done everything to find her son and couldn’t,” said one of those close to the Mangiones.
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Luigi Mangione didn’t have UnitedHealthcare insurance, nor did his mother, according to a company spokesman, who didn’t provide information about the father.
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There are indications he had been distancing himself from his family at least a year before cutting ties, based on interviews, posts bearing his name on the Goodreads book-review site and on Reddit posts thought to have been written by Mangione, with a handle matching other posts attributed to him.
He had joined Reddit as a teenager, mostly to compare notes about the mobile game Pokémon Go. Over time, he increasingly sought out the counsel of strangers, particularly about a coterie of ailments that he said doctors couldn’t provide answers for. He was plagued by brain fog, which he said seemed to linger for months after a bout of heavy drinking during his fraternity’s “hell week.” He also had a baffling gut ailment and a chronic back condition, which was frequently debilitating.
“The people around you probably won’t understand your symptoms—they certainly don’t for me,” he wrote.
A few months after surgery on his back in late July 2023, he left for a trek around Asia, according to photos shared by travelers he met and his own posts on Reddit. One was a how-to primer on traveling indefinitely out of a lone backpack. He had recently added several self-help books to his “to read” list on Goodreads, including “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents.”
One of the last books he added was on Nov. 18, a week or so before detectives say he arrived in New York. It was Goethe’s “Faust,” the German legend about a man who abandoned his past.
