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The Luigi Mangione Act
We need to contemplate the true impact
of The Luigi Mangione Act.
Although we sympathize with those who penned
this act, it won’t turn out as they intend.
Our health care system shows such signs of stress
because it is a bureaucratic mess
with pencil-pushers and attorneys who
tell doctors what they can and cannot do.
So this Act, when it’s stacked upon the top
of all the others that were meant to stop
insurers from preventing needed care,
will simply teach all those with purple hair
that if they perpetrate a righteous kill,
they’ll get their name applied to some new bill.
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Poet’s Note: Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down Brian Thomas, the CEO of United Healthcare. The Luigi Mangione Access to Healthcare Act was recently submitted to the Attorney General in California for approval to be included as a ballot initiative in the next statewide election. The public comment period ends on April 25th, after which time the Attorney General will make his ruling. The Act is intended to make it next to impossible for Insurance companies to deny access to healthcare.
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Warren Bonham is a private equity investor who lives in Southlake, Texas.
Warren, this is sadly hilarious–but I had heard of it on KTLA local news. The station suggested consulting the state attorney general, who is in charge of writing the proposal into legalese after tomorrow. I looked him up, and the first thing to greet me was ACCESS DENIED. Doing a search on “Luigi Mangione Act,” his site came up with NO INFORMATION. But the usual process is for the well-crafted proposal to be circulated for signatures during the summer. It has to garner one million to get on the ballot. Already insurance companies have moved out of California because selling fire insurance is too risky. If medical insurance follows suit, we’ll all be left with state-provided insurance. Can you see the result? The state forbids itself to deny or delay needed care to any Californian. If it does, Californians can sue California!
Ouch. Maybe you should run for higher office? You think these issues through much better than whoever has been pulling the strings lately. You’d have my vote (although it would be illegally cast).
I have a hard time imagining how a private equity investor from South Lake, Texas, even discovers this Act and then decides to write a poem about it, but it was both informative and exceedingly humorous. Your sense of humor seems to be aligned with mine and I enjoyed it immensely.
Mr. Google (or whichever clever algorithm writer controls things behind the scenes) is very good at dangling “red meat” in front of me. This story caught my attention, and not in a good way. I’m very glad to be aligned with you!
Until I read the accompanying note, I thought The Luigi Mangione Act was a joke; and then when I saw that it’s from California, it made sense. Only they could come up with something so sick.
I agree. It’s hard to see anything like this gaining traction anywhere else.
Great job, Warren — and thanks for the info; I hadn’t heard of the Act, though of course I’d heard Luigi’s name and the murder story. I think the insanity all comes, if we trace it back to its roots, from the ignorant entitlement mentality: insurers — and government, and most other entities — owe people money because people “need” it, and of course these entities have an unseen stash of money that they will never run out of.
Thanks! Ignorant entitlement is a good way to sum up what ails so many people.