{"id":30463,"date":"2025-01-14T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/thought-unitedhealthcare-couldnt-get-more-awful-theyve-gone-villain-mode-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:52:08","slug":"thought-unitedhealthcare-couldnt-get-more-awful-theyve-gone-villain-mode-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/thought-unitedhealthcare-couldnt-get-more-awful-theyve-gone-villain-mode-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn\u2019t get more awful? They\u2019ve gone villain mode | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn\u2019t make you any less of a murderer<\/p>\n<p>At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">accused of shooting<\/a> UnitedHealthcare\u2019s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn. He\u2019s got a barrage of court appearances scheduled and, once he has wound his way through the criminal justice system, he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, is as it should be. While there are a lot of reasons that many people find the 26-year-old alleged assassin sympathetic, you can\u2019t just gun a CEO down outside a hotel in Manhattan and face no consequences for it. And Mangione, who is, by all accounts, an extremely smart guy with an Ivy League education, should really have known better. He should have known that if he wanted to murder someone \u2013 and get away with it \u2013 there were far more socially acceptable ways of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/14\/united-healthcare-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn\u2019t make you any less of a murderer At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare\u2019s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn. He\u2019s got a barrage of court appearances scheduled and, once he has wound his way &#8230; <a title=\"Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn\u2019t get more awful? They\u2019ve gone villain mode | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/thought-unitedhealthcare-couldnt-get-more-awful-theyve-gone-villain-mode-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn\u2019t get more awful? They\u2019ve gone villain mode | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}