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Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder how many deaths that ceo is responsible for..

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Come on now. You can't honestly expect a poor innocent billionaire who's only goal in life was to line his pockets and the pockets of the people he was responsible for with every single penny they could possibly extort out of the poverty stricken and miserable people that rely on their services for life-saving medicine to actually be responsible for the people that died relying on them for their services right?

That would imply that there's some sort of moral obligation for service providers to provide the services that they agreed to provide to the people that are paying them for said services!

That would imply that when a company whose entire point of existence is providing healthcare services to the people that need them does not provide those services when they are needed that the company is responsible for the misery and pain and deaths that result as a lack of providing those services!

That would imply that the CEO who is the leader of that company has all of those hundreds of thousands of gallons of blood on his hands!

That would also imply that people getting fed up and retaliating against these billionaires are actually justifiable heroes rather than depraved bloodthirsty savages only seeking to destroy the American way of life.

That's crazy talk!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Come on now! If you read the article (/s), you’d know that he was one of the good guys who wanted to change the system.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No more than the politicians who won't pass single payer health care reform.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the only reason we even have the ACA is because the Dems had a filibuster proof majority for a handful of weeks, over a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus fuck it's been almost a decade since Obama...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I live under a rock; what is “single payer”?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Single payer is a term generally used to describe government-paid, or socialized medicine. The government is the "payer" of the healthcare. In the absence of private-insurance companies, they would be the single payer. At least that's how I think of the term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

NYT CEO? Well they did cheerlead the Iraq war, reported lies that led to the war without question like a fucking press release and slandered anyone who dare speak against it. How many Iraqis died? 200k?