The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione
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Hi Friends,
This week I wanted to share my thoughts on everything that is going on with Luigi Mangione and UnitedHealthcare. Most people already know the story but what I think few understand is the wider context of people’s anger at health insurance companies and they’re lifting up of someone they see as a vigilante.
Under Obamacare more people are insured than ever before. It getting passed meant companies could not deny you based on preexisting conditions or family history. Even with the coverage the actual likelihood of you paying into your health insurance and actually being insured when you need it is unreasonably low.
Doctors, labs, and hospitals are out of network depending on who you have and whether you have Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Elevance, CVS Health, Kaiser Foundation, Humana, Centene Group, Cigna, or health care services corporation you are not immune to the possibility of having to pay more out of pocket than you can afford and being saddled with bills you have to fight with your insurance provider over.
All of us have to figure out a way forward. Some believe that it will be through legislation that curbed insurance companies ability to deny and delay claims until the problem, or the person, goes away.
Luigi has been hailed or condemned on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook by what feels like everyone in the United States.
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@JoshJohnsonComedy
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
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@ebifuon6776
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I dont feel bad for the ceo of the medical company. I've lost too many family members to preventable diseases. One of my best friends in high school mom (they were rich btw) had cancer but the insurance wouldnt cover her doctor medical advice for a new treatment for said cancer cause she wasnt sick enough for that treatment despite the current treatment at helping her at all. By the time she was sick enough according to the insurance company it was too late. She was in stage four and even with the new treatment which had a much more survival rate vs what they were giving her it wouldnt have helped her. At that time she was more of the cancer then she was herself. It took less then a month for this to happen and she didnt see the end of the next month.
@rachaelogrady9820
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
#JuryNullification
@BarbaraC-k4d
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
janadamean? I love this . . . .
@skirrrtism
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
He was related to my step mom, interesting family. Wealthy Baltimore Italians from the old school. Dude had all the money and support in the world, threw it away for his cause. I feel conflicted, but cant hate on him for doing something he believed in. Health care system here is ass, did it deserve a life from a CEO who probably didnt give a dam or realize what he was doing, probably not but point made and another tragedy for US history
@karenarnold7665
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Josh, you are very funny, smart, and clever. And you seem to want this world to be a better place. And not through hate.
I do at times wish I could turn off the audience sounds, though. They often don't seem compassionate or are looking for ways to hate and laugh together.
@kryptico2240
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
These fucking rule, man
@pinktotem
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
"You don't want to get so spiteful you lose some of yourself." ~ Josh Johnson 2025 💗
@dee-deenalewis8946
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Thanks!
@dee-deenalewis8946
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Off topic Josh, but I saw last week a Special about you living in NY and your apartment which was decorated so nicely. I also wanted to tell you your girlfriend is adorable and I'm happy that she travels with you sometimes because you travel so much. I enjoyed that Special, especially when it came to your childhood!🎉
@tuzigiri-in
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Illness is something that could befall anyone through sheer bad luck, so why on earth is it acceptable in America for exorbitant sums to be charged, or for insurance companies to refuse payment? It's utterly incomprehensible.
Comments from Japan – apologies if my English is poor.
@Paragon231
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Essentially a cleaner Dave Chappelle. Amazing work.
@MichelleLeyva-r4g
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Could you imagine be his famous❤❤ love his shows ❤❤
@MichelleLeyva-r4g
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
My boyfriend just figured that about a boss❤ now ex boyfriend 😂
@KageShi
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Notice how when the CEO of Blackwater getting gunned down didn't get hardly any news coverage.
@banalove1
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Great video! Amen.🙏🙏🙏
@frungygrog
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
That drawn out "NO!" had so much oomf behind it, caught me off guard LMFAO.
@mynameisntWendy
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Ever watched that film American fiction?
@AdamCavill
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
A thought for the 2025 government shutdown: If you believe that Brian Thompson is culpable for thousands of deaths by denying healthcare. How do you feel about the members of Congress who are determined to take it away from 25 million Americans?
@joycevanhook3049
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I don't think I can ever eat a hash brown again without thinking of rich Luigi and his good mug shots. Josh you are the cause of many laughs for me, I was not a great lover of comedy, I preferred murder (still love it), you are definitely one of my favorite comedians, thank you!!😂❤
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
immense wealth disparity from extreme poverty measures a civilization
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
auto delete these all that you want. human society will self balance.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
no one should be attacked, fired, or murdered for speaking their truth in america. oppression by "legal" metrhods, for profit, leading to deaths of millions and people who you know personally, and directly watched die from greed based "policies" should follow those same precedents. if possible.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
not giving the guy the reward is some racist BS
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Musk's economic worth being more than the entire worth of the lower half of the American Population's worth combined, is One Known example, of immense wealth disparity in America. He is not alone.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
The tragic necessity of the French Revolution was in one country. Today's wealth disparity is far beyond that measure and global. Entire Regions of The World are being ravaged for lives of luxury and opulence for a tiny few humans. and entire nation's peoples are being intentionally wiped out as in Genocide …so the effects are far worse now.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
oppression builds in its own certain eventual fall.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
oppress a people hard enough and you generate a movement that needs no leader and has none.
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
that is soooo true. bet. if that man had been a person of any color but caucasian ffs
@peace4younme
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
when you dream in another language it's the signal you've mastered it.
@DLaz-qe5cq
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
So the French king before he was killed by revolutionaries had lent the US a lot of money for their independence war, to support them fighting against the British. Well, when Louis 16 asked for it back the US was like , yeah we’ve don’t got it sorry, bye. Which led to France going deeper in debt, people getting poorer and angrier. So it’s interesting how if the US had held its part of the bargain and not screwed them over, would there have been a Revolution? I don’t know but it’s just another way example of how you can’t fully trust the Americans
Government 😂
@abaddon181
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
How do so many people get shot in a place with such restrictive gun laws? I guess those laws are ineffective, yet you want to push it across the country. No thanks.
@claramitchell746
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Nice! Nice!👌🏾🌺🌺🌺🌺
@teachermariogarcia4299
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I honestly think that it wasn't so funny.. but he is a good observer also has a good development. And good punchlines. Mad respect he is doing more than just comedy is concoiusness
@SakataGintoki90
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
i miss u luigi
@katshelton43
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Sometimes peaceful protesting isn't enough. We have the highest amount of billionaires in our country and we are the richest country in the world. There is no reason why we can't have affordable housing, food, and healthcare.
@LisaChurinskas
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I don't necessarily feel good when someone like that is killed or harmed, but I'm not going to beat myself up because I don't feel bad.
@annehennessy4574
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Josh! Absolutely brilliant! ❤
@cheriwilliams7001
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
What he says about jobs where you have to be a monster to do a job, and jobs where you have to be a monster to do a job. It’s true; I watched that happen where I worked. It was sad to see the change. I watched management change overnight. It’s like someone came in and said get all the managers together. We’re going to start treating non-management like crap. It was just awful. Managers you liked changed and became monsters overnight. Many of them did not want to and, you could see the struggle in their faces about their conduct, but they wanted their jobs more than they cared about yours. You would say good morning to them and they would not reply. If you were working and enjoying your work day, and if you were seen talking to co-worker in camaraderie you were frowned upon and made to stop. Ever seen the movie Metropolis?
@MiguelMacD-gb8hz
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
It’s crazy that Marty died for financial reasons
@valeriemacphail9180
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I, and millions of people globally, pray every day for Luigi to be given a fair trial. So far the situation is GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT!
@TheRealEvilkitten3
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
very funny as always but disappointed by the treatment of luigi as a criminal. he stands accused of a crime, he has not been convicted of anything yet.
@mythologic7342
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Vigilante justice isn't a negative imo
Only negative is he's in prison
@mjda3903
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I love how intelligent Josh is. I bet his peers are just cleaning up the carnage around him when he gets done laying out straight facts and he's a beautiful too.
@ta2gypsy
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
✌❤🤣good medicine #JoshJohnson
@JeanNuttall-hp7rz
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I was a corporate advocate in several companies for the employees & fought against ceos who's greed hurts or killed in their business…I was another Erin Brochavich…lost 3 jobs because they got rid of me for fighting back but I was able to win for change & I would do it again…you can win against companies & make them change by reporting… employees have labor rights & OSHA rights, boycott which hits them in their pockets 🤬
@JeanNuttall-hp7rz
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
Ceos are greedy killers… have no sympathy for them 🤬
@SylviaHawley
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
@MovieRundowns
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
I can't wait for Luigi to get the chair
@pmagtn
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 am
People standing up to power now can be in danger too
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