This is flat out no different than shooting someone in my book.
This is why people are behind Luigi.
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It's like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody's beloved father and on the other is some executive's 5th yacht.
This situation was more complicated then that. The treatment in question was histiotripy. While it might be less invasive than traditional surgery, it isn't necessarily "better" when dealing with stage 4 cancer that failed to respond to surgery or chemotherapy. It just uses sound waves instead of scalpels.
Realistically, this guy would have died soon regardless of the treatment. It's unlikely the technician would have been able to identify all the cancer after it's spread throughout his body. It's success depends on being able to target the majority of cancer cells, which isn't easy for Stage 4 cancer.
That's not even the point. Trying everything possible should be the norm, and it shouldn't be dictated by some uncaring jackass with a 35th floor office. The entire little point of health insurance is to distribute the cost of those in need amongst all of the input of the whole. If you take enough of that input as profit for the stockholders and executives, there's less available to do what the insurance is meant to do. They're legally embezzling the investment of the whole without providing sufficient practical benefit to warrant it.
This is why we have people like luigi
Need more actually
"People will die anyway, why give them healthcare? We are not into that business, just give us your money, you greedy little pigs".
They kill us through fraud And theft, and are surprised that we celebrated Luigi's deeds. The truth is they will only start to care when more of them start to drop. How many more millions need to die because of this BS before we're ready to bring justice down on their heads as a collective class?
Everyone needs to read Billionaire's Island.
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And yet it is often by law that people have to have insurance that pays them nothing when the time comes.
It is nothing short of robbery.
I wouldn't use the word "robbery".
I'd use the word "murder".
We don't need no water,....
This is how the West develops suicide bombers
No no, there's no reason for you to blow yourself up! This is the west... we have guns.
it's also how we get luigi
Approximately 45,000 Americans are murdered due to the lack of health insurance. In addition, contributing factors, from the piss poor US healthcare system, leads to over 200,000 deaths annually. WTF USA and you're worried about the price of fucking fuel for your pick-up trucks! Vote for the few politicians that will cap the damn medical expenses, regulate the health industry properly and socialize medicine. If not, it will get worse.
What's ironic is that the big opposition from the GOP to ObamaCare was this ludicrous idea of "Death Panels" weighing human life against budgets.
And yet, when the panels are a dictatorial insurance algorithm, where is that classic 2009-2010 outrage?
Every accusation is a confession with Republicans
The panels are often just an automated script that always replies with Denied the first time too, since people sometimes dont fight it.
You probably already know but, those arguments aren't why the GOP were outraged. It's what they thought would be most likely to get the public outraged.
"the public" seems dumb as fuck.
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)
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
Per KFF, the late Tennant was insured by the Public Employees Insurance Agency of West Virginia, which partners with UnitedHealthcare.
The family should get back every penny they've paid to that insurance company.
What the fuck are they paying them for?
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