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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The legal notion of corporate "personhood" is in the very first words of US law:

the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

Congress can choose to break this.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1