Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance
Health insurance industry: we can make it worse
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Also, not an insurance company. He worked for Pfizer.
Pfizer is a med company. They negotiate with insurance. They work together to fuck us over.
It's a pharmaceutical company. They're no saints, but it's disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.
Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?
"In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill."
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I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn't think they'd be this obvious about it.
The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It's just finding a judge without wealth is impossible ... which in and of itself is a problem.
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Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it's just coincidence.
The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn't working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It's even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.
America is waking up. I feel it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
That's literally what it's taken in the past. It took the fear of communism to really get unionization accepted in the US. In other eras it's taken the threat of invasion by external powers.
I genuinely think that they'll have a hard time finding an impartial jury.... I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.
Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you're biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.
I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.
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That’s definitely a conflict of interest.
I'm sure the judge will recuse themselves to avoid any appearance of impropriety... ^/s^
As Clarence Thomas has proved.
(Sack of shit.)
As judges always do…
There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.
Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.
As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.
And now he's getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.
If we're going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let's start with the cops.
This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.
Surely she’ll do the right thing and recuse herself from the case.
She won't, and don't call her Shirley!
"conflict of interest" was old speak from the dark ages.
you people clearly don't know what you are talking about. "conflict of interest" only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires
I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they're charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn't that make this a serious conflict of interest?
No. It's inexcusable. Even if he pooped on her lawn she should have no right to be legally judging him.
This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.
Second corroborating article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-judge-married-former-211332729.html
I’m going to nitpick here. The main reference for this Yahoo/daily Beast article is OP. That’s not corroborating.
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Once against proving we have a two tiered justice system.
Yikes. Incredibly messed up.
Definitely good reason to get them swapped out for a different judge but are they going to oversee the whole trial or just the pretrial?
Also, they were an executive at Pfizer, not an insurance firm.
Pfizer isn't exactly in the good graces of the public either.
For profit healthcare is the problem. It's not the doctors, or nurses, or phlebotomists, or pharmacists that are trying to save lives. It's the people who handle the money fucking around with people's lives so they can make more.
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Kill her husband? Send a message?
Justice for Luigi is going to sail away with Judge parker at the helm.
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It's the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.
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