‘1000% Justified’: Michael Moore Defends ‘Boiling’ Anger For Health Insurance Industry

Filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday reacted to Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly naming him in his “manifesto.”

“It’s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer,” wrote Moore on his Substack page.

Mangione, who used the document to express anger with corporate America and the cost of health care in the U.S., appeared to cite the filmmaker as someone who has “illuminated the corruption and greed” in the industry.

Moore is behind the Oscar-nominated documentary film “Sicko” which, per his Substack post, focuses on “America’s bloodthirsty, profit-driven and murderous health insurance system.”

Moore noted that Mangione’s writings imply that people should look to his work to “understand the complexity — and the power-hungry abuse — within our current system” before pointing to those who’ve “stepped forward” to condemn anger directed at the health insurance industry following the shooting.

“The anger is 1000% justified,” the filmmaker wrote.

“It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”

He slammed reporters who have asked whether he condemns murder as he pointed to his work on “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Bowling for Columbine” that has “condemned the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people,” American soldiers and the tens of thousands killed each year due to guns.

Moore wrote that the anger with the health insurance industry isn’t about the killing of a CEO, rather, it’s about the “mass death and misery” that the industry has “levied against the American people for decades.”

“Just a government — two broken parties — enabling this INDUSTRY’s theft and, yes, murder,” he wrote.

He later continued, “Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart, and throwing it all away.”

He emphasized that Americans must replace the system with “something sane, something caring and loving” that keeps people “alive.”

“This is a moment where we can create that change,” Moore wrote.

Moore adds to a list of names who have highlighted Americans’ frustrations with the health insurance industry in recent days including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).