Late Stage Capitalism

This confirms one Luigi isn't enough

Luigi Mangione sacrificed so much for essentially so little, just heads on a hydra for a complacent populace still asleep at the wheel. What the fuck.

Correction: they are a cancer on US society. The rest of us have universal healthcare

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if a company put obscene profits before my treatment and I'm slowly dying in pain and fear then so are the ghouls who decided that money was more important than my treatment.

What have I got to lose?
Prison, I'll be dead before that happens.
Death sentence? I've already got one, thanks.
Damnation in hell? If there is a god and heaven then I'm pretty sure I'd be going up there if I take out a few billionaires. I have nothing to lose, they have everything.

You have a terminal diagnosis, regardless of your choice you will die. However if you pull the lever for a brief moment tens thousands of people will be given a better chance to live before the trolley returns to the mainline and the cycle begins again.

For-profit health care is grotesque

I seem to recall they started paying more claims after a certain CEO of theirs was gunned down in the street.

Luigi saved many lives. More people need to live up to the example set by one of our greatest heros

Do a Luigi.

I'm not american (thankfully). But if I were, and I had a terminal illness, I'd suicide bomb a health insurance headquarters on my way out. Because fuck it...I'm dead anyway.

Heartbreaking: man diagnosed with UnitedHealthcare

As someone that works tangentially to healthcare c-suites, they were scared of Mr Mangione.

I guess they didn't learn and someone needs to kill their CEO again

Two months now waiting for them to "pre-approve" a cheap calcium score test the doctor wants me to get (high cholesterol since forever, no symptoms no family history of stroke or heart attack so no way to know whether to bother treating it without looking). The lab has rescheduled it thrice now.

Which makes zero sense because finding out with what the doctors call a primary cardiac event would be exponentially more expensive for them.

The sad thing is, that the US is throwing a lot of money into their "healthcare system". More than most first world countries. Yet, the population is getting... nothing. So basically, you're paying taxes for nothing, other than filling the pockets of a bunch of greedy oligarchs. Your system is broken, and was broken for a very long time, but decades of propaganda brainwashed a large chunk of the population to just accept that, and so they spout nonsense about "defending Europe" as some form of excuse that their fellow countrymen and women are literally dying of preventable and curable diseases.

And the biggest irony is, that a healthy workforce and population would be beneficial even in capitalism. Most European countries understood that.

Wake the fuck up, Samurai.

In this specific case, the long unlucky journey was being born in the USA... They could have gotten treatment of they lived in a country with healthcare. That sucks so much.

It is not just the people dying who suffer. I had shoulder surgery, and need physical therapy. I have used up the thirty visits my insurance covers. I still have chronic pain and range of motion limitations. I do the exercises at home, but the therapists would do manipulations and supervise progress when I was able to go. I probably won't ever fully recover.

Idiots in charge still oppose socialized medicine. I'd like them all to bleed out from an untreatable hemorrhoid infection.