Some Are Struggling To Understand How a Young Man From a Rich & Privileged Family Might Want To Harm The CEO Of A Health Care Company.

CNN introduces us to this "mystery:"

Months before police identified Luigi Mangione as the man they suspect gunned down a top health insurance CEO and then seemingly vanished from Midtown Manhattan, another disappearing act worried his friends and family.

The 26-year-old scion of a wealthy Baltimore family who was a high school valedictorian and an Ivy League graduate, Mangione had maintained an active social media presence for years, posting smiling photos from his travels, sharing his weightlifting routine and discussing health challenges he faced.

He publicly kept track of nearly 300 books he had read or wanted to read, even posting a favorable review of the Unabomber manifesto on a book website.

But then, during the summer, Mangione appeared to stop posting online, prompting worried messages from some of his friends.

“Nobody has heard from you in months, and apparently your family is looking for you,” one user posted on X in October, tagging an account belonging to Mangione. “I don’t know if you are okay,” another posted.

Now, as police rush to piece together Mangione’s potential motive and movements leading up to last week’s shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, those who know him are left wondering how someone with a promising life could have possibly committed such a brazen crime.

“I can make zero sense of it,” said R.J. Martin, who lived with Mangione at a Hawaii co-living space a few years ago, remembering him as friendly and thoughtful. “It’s unimaginable.”

Crazy, right? I mean, if any American 20-something exemplified "has it made" it would be Mr. Mangione. What would make him basically become a class traitor?

Well, if we check out more of the article, it becomes a little clearer:

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In recent years, Mangione suffered from troubling back pain and underwent surgery to treat it, according to a friend and online postings.

Around 2022, Mangione moved to Hawaii, where he lived for about six months at a co-working and co-living space in Honolulu, Martin told CNN. At the time, Mangione was working remotely, Martin said.

Mangione helped lead a book club for residents and liked going hiking and doing yoga, Martin, the founder of the co-living space, said. While residents sometimes discussed capitalism and the health care system, “it wasn’t like he had an ax to grind or he was even upset or angry about a particular issue,” Martin said. He didn’t remember Mangione ever talking about guns or violence.

Soon after Mangione moved to Hawaii, Martin said, Mangione did a surf lesson and ended up “in bed for about a week” with back pain. “It was really traumatic and difficult, you know, when you’re in your early twenties and you can’t, you know, do some basic things,” Martin said.

Here we go: even with  all that money an access, Mr. Mangione had a condition that couldn't be fixed easily, and learned more about the system behind administrating those fixes (and no doubt heard a horror story or two about coverage). 

One can only imagine how things might change if more "Mr. Mangiones" came forth to voice their frustrations with the current American Health Care system (and preferably with less firearms).