On December 4, 2024, a health insurance CEO was shot dead on a Manhattan sidewalk. The police cordoned off a stretch of pavement around the victim, launching a multi-state manhunt that captured the world’s attention. Across America, the alleged killer was instantly embraced as a hero — as if the CEO was the real criminal, as if the bullet casings carrying the words DELAY, DENY, DEPOSE had, indeed, deposed a tyrant.

Who gets to draw the boundary around a crime scene?

DEPOSE: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution argues that America's for-profit healthcare system is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America, the authors follow opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources. There, they discover a crime that has shaped the law itself: the forced disappearance of our natural right to health. Reclaiming that right changes how we understand our history – and clarifies what remains unfinished in the American revolution.

Written by the anonymous collective that raised more than $1.5 million for Luigi Mangione's legal defense, Depose takes the American healthcare debate onto the terrain of the fundamental political questions facing all of us today.

The December 4 Legal Committee members include medical professionals, philosophers, historians, high school dropouts, an herbalist, a sign-spinner, and an HVAC technician. 100% of all Authors' royalties will be split evenly between grassroots healthcare initiatives and Luigi Mangione's Official Legal Fund for All 3 Cases until he is free.