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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When money dictates how the world should work.
What's ironic is that the big opposition from the GOP to ObamaCare was this ludicrous idea of "Death Panels" weighing human life against budgets.
And yet, when the panels are a dictatorial insurance algorithm, where is that classic 2009-2010 outrage?
Every accusation is a confession with Republicans
You probably already know but, those arguments aren't why the GOP were outraged. It's what they thought would be most likely to get the public outraged.
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I’ll never understand how people were OK with putting middlemen with an interest in denying care between them and lifesaving treatment.
because apparently, the alternative is communism, and it will have death panels that will decide if you get to live in order to save costs...
Insurance companies are deathpanels though...
that was my point.
they prefer real material death panels, than the alternative, because it might have theoretical death panels. that no country with public healthcare has.
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This would be enough to "radicalize me", but I don't think it's all that radical to be against a system that treats people this way.
That's the point, we're not living a neutral situation, we're under attack by bad people doing disgusting jobs
It's us against the Epstein class, really.
It isn't. It's inhumane the way these companies are behaving. They're a threat to society and this is humans' instinctual response to eliminating threats.
We are giving thousands of dollars of our money to a company to insure that our life and health will be taken care of, it should NOT be up to these companies what methods of remedies that a person needs to be kept alive and healthy are "deemed necessary"
Furthermore; these companies CEO should NEVER be paid more than a ~~average~~ median citizen... full stop. There's no reason an insurance company employee owns a yacht.
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So are they going to be as surprised and outraged again when another Mario brother shows up to clean up this mess?
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Mangione did nothing wrong.
What's wrong with getting McDonald's after playing video games?
Succulent american meal?
The family should get back every penny they've paid to that insurance company.
What the fuck are they paying them for?
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And yet it is often by law that people have to have insurance that pays them nothing when the time comes.
It is nothing short of robbery.
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Per KFF, the late Tennant was insured by the Public Employees Insurance Agency of West Virginia, which partners with UnitedHealthcare.
Life is not medically necessary
In fact its a massive risk factor.
I work in EMS. My advice to students and brand new EMTs is always the same: don't freak out when your patient is in cardiac arrest. Those are the easy calls. I have to keep people alive and if someone is crashing in front of me I have to figure out why and what I can try to do to stop it so they don't die. The ones that are already in cardiac arrest aren't getting any more dead, and the only outcomes are that we improve on that or we don't. We can't make them worse. Dead is the most stable condition.
Edit: That said, one of my favorite things about working in EMS is that I don't have to care about "medically necessary" or insurance companies. If I think my patient needs a treatment and it's in my protocol to give it, I give it. I don't have to ask for an insurance company's approval or get a payment method from my patients, I just get to help people.
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This is how the West develops suicide bombers
it's also how we get luigi
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"People will die anyway, why give them healthcare? We are not into that business, just give us your money, you greedy little pigs".