Any rememberries when the talking point was government death panels determining life value was why we couldn't have universal medicare? Tony Stank remembers.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Time to let Luigi out for a couple of days I think.
I wonder if their CEO considers himself medically necessary? To me it seems their C-suite might be a bit of a cancerous growth on the business.
Love this comment because they appear to think doctors are paid by the insurance companies and not the hospitals they work for.
MADUFF & MADUFF
10 April, 2026How long can you live without getting paid for your work. Easy to tell other people they have to work for free, you wouldn't do it.
Nobody works more free hours than medical staff to begin with. free overtime is like a requirement, and a part of the system built to exploit the workers. “You’re not a team player unless you work for free like the rest of us”
I don’t have real data... but much of the medical staff in the US has a pretty strong union. So if this were the case, it would be because the union chose not to make it an issue in exchange for something else. Thus it isn't really free overtime.
There are surely jobs for which there is no union and unpaid overtime is standard. So they would technically work more unpaid overtime.
That said, unpaid overtime should be illegal. Or the hospitals insurance should refuse to cover mistakes made during unpaid overtime, which would give the hospital reason to not allow it.
More than that; hospitals are required to provide emergency care to people who cannot pay. This often ends up being more expensive than just providing care before it becomes an emergency; which the rest of us end up paying for in the form of higher costs.
Nothing like the nypost comment section to get you out of your bubble. Can't believe there's so many insurance company defenders
I'm actually surprised given how much Ben Shapiro got flack from his own audience for attacking Luigi.
something tells me the company will be needing some insurance of its own soon...
Can we get a reputable coven of witches to hex these fuckers?
well...
it did actually fix some things about the last company, last time...
The insurance company in question "partners with" United Healthcare, so..... maybe not so much.
no, they just didn't get the memo.
This is why we need the Mario Party
What's the guy gonna do? Sue them? He's dead. Murdered by the capitalist authoritarians.
The only rightful place for kings is under the blade of a guillotine.
He could have done some side jobs to cover it. I mean, even though it is unethical, I've heard that smuggling drugs could help you cover these medical bills. Just not sure how you get into that
Can't the family sue?
fam can do other things as well
Ah yes, America, where corporate murder and tragic loss of life is compensated with money.
Guillotines are too 18th century. I am a fan of woodchippers. Feet first, of course!
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This is flat out no different than shooting someone in my book.
This is why people are behind Luigi.
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Whenever an economic argument is invoked to justify for or against doing something, it’s always a vacuous position.
Economics must be subservient to the needs of the society it exists within.
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It's like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody's beloved father and on the other is some executive's 5th yacht.
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I once went to the ed for butt disease related dehydration. The idiot PA manning the ed would not be gainsayed about my medical history that I was there for, not him. It could be possible that his 15 second glance through my 400 volume medical records may have missed some nuanced. But no, according to him I had the flu not the fatal butt disease..I meani get it out was in the middle of a flu outbreak and I was merely missing half of my butt and much of everything above it. My fatally afflicted by butt disease parts were just at the store buying cigarettes I couldn't know what I'm talking about.
A week later I get a letter from the medical group my insurance is through. "Jello my liege YMCA blah blah blah you went to the hospital when you only had the flu
Are you having a fucking stroke, you can't use a word like gainsay if you're not going to use proper grammar throughout the comment.
I read that twice and I still don't know what is going on.
I had no problem with it. Dude's got the butt disease and insurance (predictably) fucking sucks.
Made perfect sense to me
They kill us through fraud And theft, and are surprised that we celebrated Luigi's deeds. The truth is they will only start to care when more of them start to drop. How many more millions need to die because of this BS before we're ready to bring justice down on their heads as a collective class?
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