United Health’s business practices put everyone in danger

[@finleysmurflton4851]

Insurance companies sowing: hahaha hell yeah!! Insurance companies reaping: 😭😭😭

[@victorianmagnet9308]

When our ruling class tells us that "school shooting are a fact of life." I find it hard to give a shit about a CEO. you can't try desensitize me to a much more horrific event, and then expect me to clutch my pearls over the death of someone who would deny a child's anesthesia for surgery to remove lead fragments.

[@Khazzman]

Really almost amuses me that the news is shocked that the younger generation has no sympathy for this guy. And we are like "Uhhh yeah, we grew up going to school, knowing there is a chance some freak with an automatic rifle might decide to walk in and kill us all. And you think one man being gunned down in broad daylight with no other casualties will make us care?"

[@KP-go5vj]

Man if Brian Thompson was still alive to see how many people are celebrating his death... guy really dodged a bullet here.

[@theweirdclasher3955]

He took one to dodge another

[@NeuroticSims]

I really hope this event spurs regular citizens to run for office in the upcoming midterms. Regular everyday people, running on a platform heavily focused on single payer healthcare, will be the ones to usher in the changes we want to see. I hope this fire doesn't die down and people capitalize on it.

[@ineednochannelyoutube2651]

I also want people to do a little more than just run for office, imo. We have stopped our advocacy at election season for too long and we need some sort of strategy to constantly advocate for change. We need to push for ballot measures to at least regulate some of the more predatory practices, protest, strike, organize pro-universal healthcare doctors and nurses into something that can oppose the American Medicial Association (they are arguably as influential as the insurance companies in opposing universal healthcare efforts than insurance companies), and anything else that effect change. New representatives are genuinely great, but not in a way that will solve that problem forever. If Trump repeals the ACA or cuts medicare/medicaid (or some of the more radical solutions his cabinet have come up with, but those are unlikely to pass Congress.) our cause gets stronger, but I want someone to try and do something to stop it. If anyone lives in a swing district or swing state with a republican then it has now become a moral imperative to try and petition them to vote no any repeals or cuts. Try to get a number of signatures higher than the number they won their seat by, and get as many people who voted for them to sign it, the threat being made is that their seats will be in danger if they vote for repeal.

[@denelson83]

Oh, capitalism knows how to extinguish such resistance.

[@ReallyBadJuJu]

If justice cannot be found in a courtroom, it will be sought in the streets. No war but class war.

[@Fringe31422au]

What we consider to be the worst political regimes had systems that deliberately and efficiently left people out to die. Sometimes very violently but oftentimes a quieter denial of resources and we rightly point out the abuse in that. Or how people were right to rebel against it. What makes these health insurance companies so different? I also think this event has done a lot of damage to the credibility legacy media had left. Especially in a situation that should have have been a layup in sensationalizing without endorsing those actions.

[@thesenate1844]

In a dream world, right now Bernie would be at the end of his second term and Brian and all his victims would still be alive

[@myphone4590]

Before now the "risk" was having to pay what they owed. There was no downside to cheating. You can't say they're taking a risk when there's only "reward" or "less reward".

[@kennethmoses4900]

My problem with medical insurance is that it’s rarely a licensed physician who’s denying your claims. It’s just some desk jockey deciding things as if they know more than your doctor.

[@ReallyBadJuJu]

If you're lucky! It could also be some half baked AI.

[@tommysalami420]

@@ReallyBadJuJu Or every single one of insurers jobs can be replaced with a benevolent AI that just wants healthy humans.

[@azlanadil3646]

@@tommysalami420 Or you could just give people healthcare without all the BS. Like, how many people are really out there getting invasive surgeries for the lols?

[@tommysalami420]

@@azlanadil3646 Thats exactly what I mean by having an AI that loves happy healthy humans. But you're right there shouldn't even be that middle step. If your doctor recommends something there should be zero barriers to getting that care. Still a bit illusion'd with just how shit we have it in the US

[@crocve]

What is legal or illegal becomes irrelevant when there are monsters going around playing with people's lives by denying them care. This might help as a popular clash against the GOP once they eventualy repeal the ACA under Trump.

[@denelson83]

Capitalism was waving the cloth in front of the bull. And the bull charged in this case.

[@blaster915]

Accurate

[@Abi-it7vj]

I love Medicare and aus emergency services

[@kennethmoses4900]

So glad I live in Australia. Taxes are high, sure, but it’s so worth it.

[@texasgermancowgirl]

Yeah the system killed my mom. Died of cancer

[@nzwj]

Preach! 🙌

[@codymoon7552]

He is a true Roman man. Let us honor him like one

[@pantalaemon]

there's so much fucked up about this comment

[@codymoon7552]

@pantalaemon He partook in what is the right of every citizen, he destroyed the elite. Sure it's no crisis of the 3rd century but this Luigi fellow did the Roman thing

[@pantalaemon]

@@codymoon7552 are you 14? serious question

[@b.6603]

Stop trying to analyze current events through the lens of 2 millennia old institutions. Are you impaired or something?

[@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethem]

are u all rude to each other like this this is why u cant do anything

[@technologic21]

There's no point to being an insurance company if you're not going to provide the services of insurance. Period. Otherwise, it's a racket and you're extorting money from people monthly.

[@swampfoxfpv]

I feel about the same towards this situation as I do towards Oct 7. Whether you feel it was justified or not is kind of irrelevant. Literally WTF did you think was gonna happen?

[@stephs8665]

Yep exactly!

[@06howea1]

The CEO was a gangster let’s be realists.

[@SassySealion]

Long tail asymmetric risk - aka it's only a matter of time until you get clotheslined by reality... yet still😳surprised pikachu face 😳 when that happens. Corporations need to grow tf up and stop demanding to be simultaneously coddled and put on a pedestal 🙄

[@baycharles8328]

Seems perfectly justifiable to me..

[@aenorist2431]

3:00 Try "not technically legal". Its very easily justifiable, in fact, you just did a pretty good job justifying it and you know you did.

[@06howea1]

What does financially crippling Americans do for the economy?

[@beckybenton9402]

CRAZY

[@06howea1]

Isn’t free market capitalism supposed to self regulate? Can’t people just take their business to a competitor company that doesn’t treat their customers like scum? These are genuine questions.

[@victorianmagnet9308]

All large healthcare providers are like this, I think if you're lucky you can get a smaller one that may actually do their job. I also think a lot of people get it through their place of work, and you don't get to choose the provider.

[@Soopahperry111]

self regulating capitalism is a myth. If one does a shitty action, they will all do it because they can get away with it.

[@ambermetal195]

Some industries just don't work like others; some are natural monopolies, such as utilities like waternor electricity, while others tend to have bad outcomes when left to the profit motive, such as healthcare. It's literally more profitable to treat rather than cure, so no matter their intentions a well-meaning compant will lose out to an insidious one.

[@aenorist2431]

One is a wakeup call. 100 would be change.