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Fucking depraved. In a just world, every single person involved would get a one-way trip to barbara-pit

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 110 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

lol remember when Obama tried to pass bare minimum legislation to slightly curb the worst predatory excesses of these butchers and all the hogs rose up en masse to defend them?

Conservatism is an open death cult (liberalism is more of a stealth death cult that doesn't show its true face until you've bought in for a few years)

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

but death panels! an unelected board of bureaucrats might decide whether you receive care or not!

but waiting times! You'll have to wait a long time to recieve your care!

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went to the former Soviet bloc countries and saw first hand how awful socialized medicine is! They don’t cover every medical concern either like dental so it really isn’t universal now is it? Checkmate commie.

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[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

remember when Obama tried to pass bare minimum legislation

no

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I remember when Obama passed legislation to force me to pay these butchers a lot of money, yes. That was great.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Heaven forbid we do the bare minimum and offer a public option, that would be socialism!

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

I found out yesterday that Obama just actively opposed the public option during the passing of the ACA too. He really never missed a moment to be a feckless traitor.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

We can't reform the system or we might end up with death panels.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 89 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

Unlimited italian plumbers brothers on ameriKKKa

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 84 points 2 weeks ago

damn i hope whoever is responsible for that gets shot

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago

Tell me again how socialized medical care results in death panels?

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The person who killed Brian Thompson committed an act of self defense. Nobody would have any qualms saying so if Thompson was randomly shooting people out on the streets, and then that person killed him. So why does that change when the murder weapon become legal forms?

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

–Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

Liberals don't recognize social murder.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

Economic violence isn't understood in western bourgeois democracy

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

History will look back on luigi-dance kindly

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah because Luigi didn’t do it.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

he was a father of two children

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago

To quote Ice T

I know your family's grieving, well fuck 'em

Baby luigi and baby mario for them when

[–] iie@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the title of the Guardian article is weirdly subdued, considering what follows. There were UnitedHealth staff physically on-site to prevent people from receiving care.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

Western capital controlled media in a nutshell. They always find ways to subtly downplay the absolute fucking worst.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

yeonmi-park Kim Jong-un comes to your hospital room and marks you for dead to save regime money.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

At the least, that should qualify as manslaughter.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 96 points 2 weeks ago

kermit-pain Ima be real with you, UnitedHealth, that's literally murder.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 77 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Not saying you're wrong or anything, but comments like these always feel like a colossal understatement to me, having been recently personally involved with the unfeeling horror of this healthcare system dealing with someone who is near terminal, and then terminally ill.

As in, I don't personally believe it should qualify as manslaughter, I think it should qualify those responsible as irredeemable fodder you can freely slay without guilt. Like, faceless bad guy in a video game status.

[–] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

Health insurance companies are ontologically evil

[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Chuck 'em in the meat grinder at a sausage plant feet first

[–] edge@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The horrors of healthcare in general are pretty bad.

But this is basically directly saying "yeah kill this guy".

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

It’s legal to put out a hit on someone if you’re a health insurance company

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

10,000 waluigi-stalin upon the insurance industry, and 10,000 more for every day we have to wait.

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

health care prevention companies

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

wow that sounds really bad

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That isn't exactly what the arrticle says, which is:

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

So we don't really know that it was ever changed without consent.

[–] gaja@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could you clarify how that deviates from the title? I'm having trouble seeing the difference here. I think the emphasis is on the word "pressure." They did not have consent.

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[–] Finger@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago
[–] buh@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Whenever I have to pay medical bills, I pull up a picture of Brian Thompson doing that shit eating grin in a quarter zip so I can ask his ghost if it was worth it

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The reason China will never have a Luigi Mangioni is because the people responsible for this would be put to death by the State

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[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Mistrial? Mistrial.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

finaly we have created the torment nexus from the classic scifi ~~don't create the torment nexus~~ Altered Carbon

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Insured murder amerikkka

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