“My mother died in the United States”: Philippe Corbé speaks for the first time about his experience of the American health system, after the Magione affair

The Magione affair unleashes passions. “Violence to combat corporate greed is unacceptable“, this is the clarification that was made by the spokesperson for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, following the unprecedented support to the crime Luigi Magione. A reaction from the top of the State which says a lot about the extent of the affair in the United States. Even in France, the business is exported. As a reminder of the facts a week ago, Brian Thompson, powerful CEO of the UnitedHealthCare group, was shot dead in the street, and Luigi Magione, the main suspect, has since been arrested. The rumor grows about three words found engraved on the shooter's bullets: “deny, defend, depose“, understand “refuse, defend, file”. Words that speak to millions of Americans, those who bear the brunt of insurance companies, who refuse to reimburse their care. Specialist in American politics for years for BFMTV , Philippe Corbé also experienced it too closely.

On the set of C to you on Thursday, December 12 to comment on this sad news, the French journalist tried to explain in the simplest way the health coverage problems of Americans. “Everyone has a story about it“, he noted. But no one could have imagined such an act. “For many Americans, and not just the super rich, they don't want the public or the state to decide which doctor they can see, they want to have the freedom of that“, he clarified. Some Americans were finally somewhat rejoiced at the death of this man, recalled the personalities on set, including Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. “A trivialization of violence“, noted Philippe Corbé, who has been married since 2019 to Javier Miguel Céspedesa Cuban-American I met two years earlier in Manhattan. A debate which was exported here since in a tweet, this Wednesday, December 11, the spokesperson for Lutte Ouvrière mentioned American private health insurance and equated Luigi Mangione, main suspect in the assassination of Brian Thompson, to a “individual vigilante“.

Philippe Corbé, former BFMTV journalist, discusses the Luigi Magione affair

“Everyone thinks what they want about this statement, but the French system has absolutely nothing to do with the French systemwould like to remind Philippe Corbé, former publishing director of BFMTV. I will tell you a personal story, my mother died in the United States, she had an intense health crisisshe went to the hospital, less than 24 hours, several tens of thousands of dollars bill. This is the life of many Americans.“A strong and personal statement which echoes the problems still experienced by too many Americans, due to their health system. Philippe Corbé recalled in particular that during a difficult pregnancy, the child is born with already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.Not everyone, many people are covered but when you are not covered, your life can be turned upside down, if you fall off your bike, if you fall off a roof while you are renovating your roof, or because you slipped on a patch of ice. Everything can change at any moment“, he concluded. “ultra-precarious life difficult to live” for still too many people.