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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 104 points 2 months 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)

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months 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 months 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.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months 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 months 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 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

remember when Obama tried to pass bare minimum legislation

no

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 54 points 2 months ago

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 85 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

Unlimited italian plumbers brothers on ameriKKKa

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

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

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 82 points 2 months ago

damn i hope whoever is responsible for that gets shot

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 77 points 2 months 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 months 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 38 points 2 months ago

Liberals don't recognize social murder.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Economic violence isn't understood in western bourgeois democracy

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

History will look back on luigi-dance kindly

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

Yeah because Luigi didn’t do it.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

he was a father of two children

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months 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 57 points 2 months 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 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At the least, that should qualify as manslaughter.

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 87 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 38 points 2 months ago

Health insurance companies are ontologically evil

[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] edge@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months ago

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

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months 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 months ago

health care prevention companies

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

wow that sounds really bad

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months 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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[–] buh@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months 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

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

Mistrial? Mistrial.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Insured murder amerikkka

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