The guy that Judas “finked on” was supposed to be tortured and actually knew Judas was going to betray him. Judas’ role was a crucial part of that one guy’s legend.
The authorities must step carefully here. If it comes to the point of executing Luigi under the federal terrorism charges, he could become as much of a martyr as that other guy was. It could result in some serious national unrest.
Or a whole new religion. L. Ron Hubbard started with a less compelling story.
But does Mangione have any DC-8s?
Moderating:
I think we are drifting away from “breaking news” here.
It looks theoretically possible that UnitedHealthcare wasn’t exactly the Good Corporate Citizen that we were led to believe they were:
OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission. CVS Caremark Rx blasted the findings for cherry picking certain drugs in an effort to push what it called an ‘anti-PBM’ narrative.
“Cherry picking.”
Yeah. What about all those people that I didn’t murder??
(Look for the FTC to rocket its way up the list of agencies for Trump to immediately neuter)
The U.S. is notorious for incurring the highest costs per capita of any wealthy nation, yet failing to achieve an even remotely equivalent improvement in patient outcomes versus Europe’s social market-based economies.
Murica!!
You talk, Pam Bondi listens:
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”
Meenwhile in California. 
(Edit, never mind)
Yuck, that’s fucking disgusting.
Eta: it’s also utter bullshit. The utter idiot proposing the bill is a retired lawyer, not a politician; and he misspelled Luigi’s name on his proposal. It’s actually the Mangioni act 
It needs hundreds of thousands of signatures before anything comes of it.
Just a reminder that there’s a subset of licensed physicians who are sure that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine will solve many of your problems.
Yet nearly everyone I know has experienced a denial of payment from insurance companies, for legitimate care.
Nitpick: It’s a ballot proposition, not a bill. In California literally anyone can get a proposition onto the ballot if they collect enough signatures. And if it gets on the ballot and enough people vote for it, it becomes law without any input from the legislature. Yes, California’s voter initiative system is a form of direct democracy that completely bypasses the legislature (IIRC it came out of the populist movement of the early 20th century, when Californians felt their elected officials were all in the pockets of the railroad companies).
I wish I still lived in California so I could vote for it. It sounds like a good idea to me regardless of the name.
Although,
the courts can get involved. In my state, there have been initiatives that were struck down because the office chair thief who submitted them tried to put a sweet candy wrapper around a second provision that might well have failed on its own.
Hi, neighbor!