Every story like this makes Luigi a bigger Hero.
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No, it doesn't. Because we all know Luigi is innocent.
He's a hero for standing up to the big guy after being falsely accused. Even more so as we realize what the prosecution is protecting.
Are they going to be arrested and stand trial next to Luigi? No right? Yeah, totally fair and balanced government we have here. Fucking psychos.
They can't milk you for healthcare costs if your dead.
my wife just went to help her estranged mother come home from the nursing home the hospital had put her in after her surgery. she said they tried to get her to sign her entire life away to united healthcare before releasing her, and probably would have if she hadn't been there to stop it.
they wanted to milk her for everything they could, racking up massive medical bills by keeping her there, and then have her sign her life and possessions over to UHC to recoup expenses. when my wife took her home they said it was against medical advice, which allows them to deny coverage for the bills she incurred.
fucking vultures. free luigi.
My insurer just announced that the addiction counseling service that used to be provided for free to members is going away. Is addiction no longer a medical issue?
no addiction means you're a drug addict and need to get deported trump assures united of this.
While not the point of this thread, just wanted to note for anyone struggling, themselves or someone they care about, there are lots of resources for addiction out there. Many of them free.
A treatment center can be a safe place to get clean and gain some knowledge, but it is a lifelong struggle for most who have addiction issues. Going into a treatment center does not “cure” most.
Please seek out help, even if you do not have insurance or are unable to go to a treatment center.
This is clearly a case of terrorism and we need to send a message that we will not negotiate with terrorists. Give the current CEO the death penalty.
They need to stop murdering people.
Will the oligarchs seek the death penalty for this company killing a civilian child?
No
But they'll seek the death penalty for a civilian killing one of them.
I don't know how you can work for these companies and sleep at night, especially at the executive levels. Utter psychopathy.
Thank you for the opening, I have a very true story to tell about that very subject.
I met my wife on vacation in the 90's, and after a few long distance months, she decided to move to where I lived. As a trained, experienced secretary from NYC, she used her own tried-and-true method of getting a job - she signed up with a good temp agency, and worked a series of temp jobs until she found a job where she fit in, hoping they would want to keep her.
She went through a series of bad employers, until she ended up working a temp job with the state's biggest healthcare company. She sat outside the office of a corporate lawyer whose sole job was to look through the files of people with the most expensive treatments, and find some excuse, any excuse, to cancel them, no matter how flimsy. Usually it was some pre-existing condition, like allergies. For example, if someone was getting expensive cancer treatments, this lawyer would find some evidence that they knew they had allergies when they got their insurance, and the lawyer would cancel their insurance based on that small unrelated issue. People who had paid premiums for years, were cancelled at the very moment they needed their insurance the most. They also didn't refund the thousands of dollars they'd paid in premiums, they kept it all, despite refusing to provid the service that had been paid for. Her refusal of treatment DEFINITELY led to the deaths of people, and this lawyer was nothing short of a Corporate Serial Killer.
My wife worked the job for three months, becoming increasingly uncomfortable and unhappy as she realized what she was assisting this Corporate Serial Killer in doing (and so did I), and was planning on having the temp agency find a a new position for her.
Before she was able to do that, she came home and told me "They offered me the job." It was a good opportunity, with better pay and good benefits. Normally, it would be time to celebrate, but she was clearly heavily conflicted. I asked what wanted to do, and she reluctantly said she was going to take the job, because we needed the money.
I told her we didn't need the money that bad, that it wasn't worth destroying her soul over (we aren't religious, I meant it in a more metaphorical way). I had already been concerned about the psychological toll the job had been taking, so I also told her that she was never going back there, and to call the temp agency tomorrow for a new position. Let them tell the company that she was never going back. We'd get by for a while longer, until something better came along.
I still remember her look of relief when I told her that I didn't expect her to work that soul-sucking job any lomger. She got a new temp job that developed into a permanent position that she held for years.
Years later, when Sarah Palin started talking about "death panels" associated with Obabacare, my wife said "Death Panels already exist at healh care companies, I personally worked for that company's one-woman death panel."
I know personally how psychopathic these health care companies are, and they should be run out of business for their fraudulent practices. They are Serial Killer Corporations, murdering people for profit. We need to put health care in the hands of an entity without a profit motive, and the only thing like that is the government. I was already thinking along the lines of Universal Health Care before my wife's experience cemented my firm belief in it.
My wife's experience is why I support Luigi 100%, even though he is totally innocent of all charges.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko
This is a major part of this documentary. I'm glad she got out. I hope life is much better now.
I was listening to the Acquired episode on Epic and they touch on the severe cost overruns in our healthcare system. They make a point to share that hospitals aren't the ones making a killing. It's insurance companies.
They make a compelling argument that if you add up the total that you pay to insurance, taking into account what your employer pays, there's no way you get that much value out of your health insurance annually.
I have a number of complex chronic health problems and I usually hit my out-of-pocket limit around April every year. I find spiteful glee in costing my health insurance tens of thousands of dollars every year. (And every penny of it is actually medically necessary.)
insurance is always a gamble, and the house always wins
don’t insure anything you can afford to lose, and save up money you’d put into insurance in a HISA
that said, things you can’t afford to lose probably include your house, someone else’s lamborghini, your health
buuuuuuut US health care is set up for bargaining: hospitals overcharge, pharmacies overcharge, drug companies overcharge because they all know insurance companies aren’t gonna pay what they actually charge because they have bargaining power… which, if you don’t have insurance, leaves you holding the fucking ball with no bargaining power
… all of this is said as an aussie, with universal healthcare and only a passing (but real life) experience of the US healthcare system (and in general a system that will protect me from fucking up so hard i can’t even imagine being completely destitute), so grain of salt n all that
It's a metaphorical gun to the head. It's not designed to help. The purpose of the system is what it does.
Oligarchs vs their Consumers. Both now killing each other openly. The opening of true class warfare.
I assume the DOJ will pursue the death penalty for the claims adjuster.
Don't kill people with guns. Kill people with paperwork. Most effective serial murder in the world. We know their motives, MO, and exactly where they live, but nobody will prosecute them.
I'm told the best way to kill someone and get away with it is to hit them with your car. Not, like, drive into a crowd of people, but like nail them when they're crossing the street or walking near the side of the road. Especially if they're walking or on a bike. You can just say you didn't see them or whatever, and our car-focused culture will be like "yeah ok that happens."
So hypothetically if any healthcare CEOs are out jogging in their suburbs, someone could run them over and maybe not even be charged with a crime.
Nah, because it's a CEO the person who does it would definitely get charges, and they would likely push for the death penalty, even for a traffic accident.
CEOs are not on the same level as the rest of us.
Might be right, but remember that the families of healthcare CEOs can find a good lawyer to sue your ass for wrongful death.
One Luigi wasn't enough, i see.
Fuck were going to need a pumped up kicks for ceos if we keep needing more Luigi. Some music to keep us pumped.
Reminds me of a scene in Fight Club when Robert Paulson accidentally becomes a martyr. The crew partially took his death as, "we are all Robert Paulson," we are all this martyr.
There is a nation of Luigis, and it's everyone. Everyone just has to stop waiting to die. It need not be violent or deadly, either. One way would be merely: Everyone just has to stop. Doing everything. At the same time.
Probably a good time would be around when the supply chains completely collapse in 10 or so days from now.
Following the killing of Brian Thompson, Tim Noel replaced him as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Noel had previously served as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare & Retirement unit. The announcement came after Thompson was fatally shot in December.
Who's Tim Noel? The new CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
UnitedDeathcare
It's what Healthcare CEOs call Durable Savings.
The family premiums won't go down with one less child, but costs are saved.
Win-win for shareholders!
Another manslaughter for a US health insurance scheme's tally.
Always remember: it's only terrorism if poor people do it.
"‘You have not tried all lower levels of care available in your area. You can learn to control your behaviors and stay at home. You can learn coping skills in your home. Your family can support you as you get treatment.’”
100% I believe they sent this to family... If addictions were so easy to manage we wouldn't have all these addiction programs
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