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I have no idea how to answer your question, I just want to point out something you hinted at, intentionally or not: The UHC CEO and other ghouls like him have killed more Americans than Bin Laden could ever dream of. Hell, I think even Adolf would be impressed.
These companies are the death ~~(lost the word, “courts”?)~~ panels* that the Republicans cried fake outrage about when Democrats pushed the Affordable Care Act.
Edit: thank you @DisguisedJoker@lemmy.world and @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
"Death panels". Yeah, I remember when that was the talking point some 15 years ago and I wondered how that didn't apply to insurance companies. It made me glad I lived in Glen Becks definition of "socialist hellscape" - Scandinavia.
It’s bonkers, too, with how much we know and knew pharmaceutical companies were and are doing the same thing. Look at the price gouging for insulin! Look at the opioid industry and pandemic! But, just like those, the oil, cigarette, and even alcohol industries… they’re protected. It’s ok if it’s capitalism! Up until someone finally brings out the guillotine for a CEO.
Every old person was terrified of the government determining who would live or die. So instead they decided to keep paying for the privilege of letting a for-profit insurance company to do the same thing instead
I think the term you're looking for is "death panels ".
Yes, but these ones are for-profit, see?
They are killing people on an industrial scale