This is why we need the Mario Party
What’s the guy gonna do? Sue them? He’s dead. Murdered by the capitalist authoritarians.
The only rightful place for kings is under the blade of a guillotine.
So are they going to be as surprised and outraged again when another Mario brother shows up to clean up this mess?
Why didn’t they get the procedure done anyway? So what, they owe $50K.
Does his hospital insist on payment up front? Last time that I went, I was billed, though it was for much less money.
How “new” was the treatment? Has it proven effective prior? He had gone metastatic already.
the family briefly considered tapping their retirement savings to cover the out-of-pocket cost.
So… they let him die to keep from dipping into their retirement savings? Am I reading this right?
I am not generally a pro-insurance company person… but 50K? Even if I had NO retirement savings, personally I’d prefer bankruptcy over death
Whenever an economic argument is invoked to justify for or against doing something, it’s always a vacuous position.
Economics must be subservient to the needs of the society it exists within.
This is flat out no different than shooting someone in my book.
This is why people are behind Luigi.
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.
I know you think you’re being pragmatic but it’s really just coming off as depraved.
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.
Is that a euphemism for the Epstein Files?
None your society is just as complacent as the greedy sociopathic class.
I think you mean complicit. “Complacent” doesn’t make very much sense in that context.
It’s also a hollow edgy take, the likes of which would be expected from a shut-in teenager who doesn’t actually interact with people. Most Americans are exploited to the point of exhaustion, which is a little more complicated than just “they’re complicit”, and some Americans are putting in quite a lot of effort to improve the shithole country we’re from.
Have you ever had a warehouse job, or anywhere else where you can actually speak with the exploited masses? If so, did you speak to them? Have you ever spend time in real-world organizing spaces? Not talking about just going to a protest, I mean getting involved with the people in your community who you’re accusing of being complicit. (PSL doesn’t count.)
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”.
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“Some advice I learned early in my career, if I may? It is not what you kill, but who you kill that matters in the end. So… get out there and kill someone… special.”
Plenty of honest people working there just trying to make ends meet who are on the same shitty insurance plans we are.
I guess school shootings aren’t tragic? I rather shitty things that currently happen, happen to really shitty institutions like insurance companies
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)
Or discriminating against gays, or cutting food stamps, or invading Greenland, or storing nuclear secrets in bathrooms, or…
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
This is how the West develops suicide bombers
it’s also how we get luigi
No no, there’s no reason for you to blow yourself up! This is the west… we have guns.
Brent Wolfingbarger
