| ▲ | gruez 2 hours ago |
| That's their job? It's not even limited to private insurance companies. Public health systems have lists of what is considered good value for money too, even if the treatments themselves are theoretically life saving. The US is the biggest market for new and rare drugs specifically because other countries consider the prices too high. |
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| ▲ | slg 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| >That's their job? I mean you're the one who brought up hitmen. What's their job? |
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| ▲ | gruez 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you think that denying a specific treatment (justified or otherwise) is comparable murder for hire, then I don't think there's anything worth discussing between the two of us. | | |
| ▲ | slg an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, in my opinion an unjustified and profit motivated refusal to save a life is the same as intentionally taking that life. It's just the trolley problem and you're arguing that there is some innate nobility in refusing to touch the switch. | | |
| ▲ | snootypoot 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 100% agree. this greed and shareholder supremacy can be traced back the the precedent set in the case of dodge brothers vs ford motor company |
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