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How exactly is this not considered murder for all parties involved in a decision like this?
Because rich people, corporation and the state can kill as they like.
It’s only a crime for use plebs.
Because corporations are considered people for the rights, which allows them to vote in either VT or NH, but they aren't people for responsibilities, which is why TX hasn't executed one.
Luigi should get a medal and a statue.
grant him sainthood.
The shot heard round the world part II. Luigi is a hero. At this point anyone working against him are criminals.
850 million medical claims are denied annually by insurance carriers. If even 10% of those are unjustly denied (likely a very low number), then that is 8.5 million people left hurt, suffering, or dead.
We called 11 million deaths a holocaust in WWII. WHAT THE FUCK DO WE CALL OVER 8 MILLION A YEAR? We need to get the "business" out of Healthcare. Luigi had the right of it.
Source showing 8 million deaths per year due to poor coverage/lack of coverage/denied claims:
We called 11 million deaths a holocaust in WWII. WHAT THE FUCK DO WE CALL OVER 8 MILLION A YEAR? We need to get the “business” out of Healthcare.
Capitalism.
UNITED health is one of the, if not the worst ONE OUT THERE.
The 3 Ds. Delay, die, don't care.
Thank you for sharing this, OP.
The horrors of privatized healthcare appear to be unending.
May UnitedHealth and other "healthcare" insurers get what they deserve.
One CEO got what he deserved.
witty and hemsely shouldve been in a meeting with "marios brother"
I remember when they were trying to pass the ACA Republicans were screeching about government "death panels" that would decide it wasn't worth it to keep you alive. Anyway, I'm glad nothing like that ever came to exist
Also due to the gop interference, the ACA was heavily watered down.
Back in the 90s, my wife once briefly worked for the largest health care company in our state, working with a lawyer whose entire job was to go through the files of patients who had been diagnosed with chronic or expensive issues, and find a reason, any reason, to deny them. This lawyer was very, very good at her job, and routinely invented reasons to deny people the health care that they had been paying for over years, just when they needed the coverage the most. She was a one woman death panel, and she sentenced people to death, or suffering, every single day.
This started as a temp job, and every day my wife would come home feeling terrible about what this woman was doing, and supporting her efforts as her assistant. Then one day she came with the news that they had offered her a permanent position, which is why she was temping in the first place.
I've never seen anyone so unhappy about a job offer. I had a good job, and we didn't NEED the money, but it would be nice. She felt obligated to take this job, but it was clear her soul was highly conflicted. I had also been conflicted about this job, and told her that under no circumstances was she to accept it, and the relief on her face was obvious.
She ended up with a different job that fit her much better, and didn't require her to be a functionary in Corporate Serial Killing.
Years later, Sarah Palin started yammering about the "death panels" in ObamaCare, and I thought "the insurance companies already have death panels, why isn't anybody worried about that?"
it does take a psychopath to work in a corporate job, all the way to being a CEO, OR BOD. thompson was allegedly operating this way before become the ceo of United health,.
Years later, Sarah Palin started yammering about the "death panels" in ObamaCare, and I thought "the insurance companies already have death panels, why isn't anybody worried about that?
And not even death panels, just individuals who are not licensed to practice medicine who deny anyone and everyone they can make up a reason for. The merits are never considered, death is the default option.
it takes the distraction off of the companies, when politicians are paid to do it, screech about it.
So when are we going to jail United execs and managers tgst signed off on this?
If I pay someone to delay another person's care that that other person gets brain damage, I'll go to jail for at least a decade. If I do it on an industrial scale, ill get a bonus.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
START JAILING NTHEDE FUCKERS! NOW!
jail? slaughterhouse
Fuck insurance companies. They're literally scamming grandmothers out of healthcare.
May they all live in interesting times.
Any market where choosing not to participate is simply not a viable option should be prohibited from being for-profit.
If all smartphone makers start getting too greedy and charge too much, people will just not upgrade their phones and the smartphone makers will have to lower their prices or justify their higher prices with innovations. People can choose not to participate in the market and pressure the entire industry to lower their prices or create new features to encourage participation.
If insurance starts getting (read: gets even more) greedy, cancelling your insurance isn't an option, especially if you're sick. Foregoing insurance means either dying or accumulating extraordinary medical debt you can never repay. There is no pressure on insurance companies to lower their prices because you will always have to pick one of them. As long as they all increase their prices together, they all benefit and their profit keeps going up. Their only "innovations" in the industry are to minimize payments for medical services and maximize how much they shove in their pockets.
For-profit health insurance should be illegal.
its already kinda happening, except for the cult fans. they saw little difference in between recent flagship phones to previous versions.
Seeing a lot of removed by mod posts here, so let me test something (see next comment)
All current and pensioned government employees should have the same healthcare.
No government employee should be allowed to pay for private insurance.
No government employee should be allowed to pay cash for health care.
Three rules that have no direction towards private businesses (freedom!), that if applied, would ensure immediate care for all.
When a former president can't get treatment, the situation changes.
Even if you’re the most naïve person in the world and willing to give unending benefit of the doubt, I’m not really sure how you can conclude that the late CEO wasn’t at the very least grossly negligent on an industrial scale.
This isn't negligent. There is no way that "i pay you for not transferring a person to a hospital that needs a hospital" isn't intent.