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[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 100 points 2 months ago (23 children)

This confirms one Luigi isn't enough

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seems unwise to piss off people who haven't long left to live

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There's a book where a bunch of people who have terminal illnesses form a kind of terror cell to suicide bomb health care boards to force the system to change. I'm almost surprised it hasn't happened yet.

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[–] SpontaneousCombustion@lemmy.world 96 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Correction: they are a cancer on US society. The rest of us have universal healthcare

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (28 children)

the us is so insanely corupt I need to leave this shit country

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For-profit health care is grotesque

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

When you think about it, this applies to everything. Intrinsically, we, as a society, work to live our lives in the best conditions possible.

Healthcare is just another activity to better and further our living conditions. Now of course it is more important than a lot of other work (tbh mostly because so much work is bullshit nowadays) but why would it be immoral to profit off healthcare but totally okay to profit from agriculture or food distribution? To profit from the construction of homes? To profit from anything that is as fundamental and vital as healthcare?

And if it’s wrong to profit off the “important” stuff, it makes even less sense to be able to profit from the unimportant stuff.

The concept of profits is grotesque.

And to be clear, I’m not talking about reaping the rewards from your hard work, that is not the meaning of profits.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Careful,

That sounds a lot like the world would be better if we all worked together to improve things for everyone, regardless of their station in life...

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The concept of profits is grotesque

/thread

I have so many ideas for cool software that I could easily develop by myself and publish for free. Unfortunately I have to eat stuff and live at places.

The capitalism being a zero sum game at it's core is just vile.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I seem to recall they started paying more claims after a certain CEO of theirs was gunned down in the street.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the investors got pretty pissed and demanded explanations afterwards.

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[–] Mardukas@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do not know why but the name Pavlov comes to mind..

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Pavlov's gun

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if a company put obscene profits before my treatment and I'm slowly dying in pain and fear then so are the ghouls who decided that money was more important than my treatment.

What have I got to lose?
Prison, I'll be dead before that happens.
Death sentence? I've already got one, thanks.
Damnation in hell? If there is a god and heaven then I'm pretty sure I'd be going up there if I take out a few billionaires. I have nothing to lose, they have everything.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I can only assume most of these people have spouses and kids, because that thought goes through my head too, or we'd definitely see more terminal vigilantism.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that illnesses like these leave you with no energy. Hard to do much of anything.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have a terminal diagnosis, regardless of your choice you will die. However if you pull the lever for a brief moment tens thousands of people will be given a better chance to live before the trolley returns to the mainline and the cycle begins again.

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[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (18 children)
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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Luigi Mangione sacrificed so much for essentially so little, just heads on a hydra for a complacent populace still asleep at the wheel. What the fuck.

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[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heartbreaking: man diagnosed with UnitedHealthcare

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I'm not american (thankfully). But if I were, and I had a terminal illness, I'd suicide bomb a health insurance headquarters on my way out. Because fuck it...I'm dead anyway.

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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Luigi saved many lives. More people need to live up to the example set by one of our greatest heros

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Cancer isn't killing you to save money.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

It is not just the people dying who suffer. I had shoulder surgery, and need physical therapy. I have used up the thirty visits my insurance covers. I still have chronic pain and range of motion limitations. I do the exercises at home, but the therapists would do manipulations and supervise progress when I was able to go. I probably won't ever fully recover.

Idiots in charge still oppose socialized medicine. I'd like them all to bleed out from an untreatable hemorrhoid infection.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Two months now waiting for them to "pre-approve" a cheap calcium score test the doctor wants me to get (high cholesterol since forever, no symptoms no family history of stroke or heart attack so no way to know whether to bother treating it without looking). The lab has rescheduled it thrice now.

Which makes zero sense because finding out with what the doctors call a primary cardiac event would be exponentially more expensive for them.

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