# Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto

Source: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

## Summary

Suspected killer Luigi Mangione's manifesto, described as the real version rather than a circulating forgery, is published after major outlets reportedly obtained it but declined to publish it. The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and NBC have not explained why they withheld it while quoting from it selectively, and the writer says queries to them went unanswered. The manifesto says Mangione acted alone, calls the act fairly trivial, and cites a US healthcare system that ranks roughly 42nd in life expectancy despite being the most expensive, along with a company it calls United.

## Article

I’ve obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why. My queries to The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and NBC to explain their rationale for withholding the manifesto, while gladly quoting from it selectively, have not been answered.

I’ll have more to say on this later — on how unhealthy the media’s drift away from public disclosure is — but for now, here’s the manifesto:

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: Speaking of life expectancy, an interesting result of having universal healthcare in your country is that it aligns incentives between the government and the citizens. 

If the government has to cover hospitals and doctors from the budget, it's incentivized to implement policies that make people less sick. 

From making Physical Education classes obligatory, through limiting access to sweets in schools, up to not approving things that are just terrible for people's health.