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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ (nypost.com)

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

"the public" seems dumb as fuck.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That no longer matters as they are not the ones in charge anymore...

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

That's not true, and a dangerous cop out

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, you can blame the GOP for defunding education as well.

(I have exactly zero love for the Zionazi-owned Dems either but I'm not aware of them ever defunding education)

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

Or discriminating against gays, or cutting food stamps, or invading Greenland, or storing nuclear secrets in bathrooms, or...

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

The public is way less intelligent than "dumb as fuck" hopefully we can get there on the way to marginally dumb. But I doubt it