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scottLobster 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If Mangione was the CEO's health insurer and knowingly denied him cancer treatment the CEO's doctor said he needed, all to boost his quarterly earnings, resulting in his death, would you have this same level of outrage?

For-profit claim denials should be abolished unless there's a public backstop.

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ang_cire 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly. It's insane how we've come to just accept corporate profit as a valid reason for allowing people to die, or for shifting responsibility for the outcome away from the corporation.

The Joker's monologue to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight about how one group of killings is just normal and "part of the plan", while another is shocking and appalling (specifically when it's a societal 'elite'), was supposed to be at least somewhat outlandish and overly pessimistic as an interpretation of society, but damn these people are trying to prove him right.

	▲	tavavex 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't forget: Kill thousands for profit -> no need to care, move along, no one is at fault and nothing of importance really happened Kill one that is responsible for the former -> you must preface your discussion with hundreds of references to murder being bad, and clearly and unambiguously condemn the monster that did this Humans really do have a bias where doing something small-scale but visceral causes horror and outrage, but doing 1000x that harm by building slow and boring bureaucratic machines of death is not noticeable because, after all, the machine isn't literally putting a gun to the face of the victims, so it's all fine.

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nancyminusone 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the way healthcare companies act now, they deserve bankruptcy