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That's a nice theory. The stock prices of many of these companies seems to disagree. They aren't performing some tragic triage in the service of preventing the healthcare system fr…

Raising taxes to pay for the public welfare isn't stealing. Rationing and wait-lists are a problem in some countries, and they're preferable problems to the ones existing in our cu…

They don't have to believe the insured, they can believe the doctors, plural. Also, their "errors", even when innocent, are on you to solve. I'm currently working to get my 2nd aut…

Excessive is knowingly denying someone necessary medical coverage solely for financial gain. If private insurers want to play that game then they can register as a non-profit organ…

Where do you think all criminal codes come from? Are they mined out of the earth already written? It's a constantly evolving set of rules based on a society's collective moralities…

Depends on your employer/occupation. You can purchase insurance directly as an individual but it's usually the most expensive way to go as you have no group bargaining power. Small…

I was presenting an extreme hypothetical to a make a point that the insurers are motivated by selfishness. In the real world, not a hypothetical, your market driven approach ensure…

The moral crime of excessive claims denials that resulted in many needless death for no better reason than he wanted a to boost UHC's stock price to get a bigger bonus. He deserved…

As a mid-career software dev I'm just sick of most of my job being a highly paid technical janitor mopping a floor that never gets clean. I've had maybe 2-3 years combined where I …

He murdered a guilty man, not an innocent one. Still murder, and murder is wrong, but let's not get things twisted

Anyone who's lost a loved one over a denied claim can sympathize with Luigi even if they disapprove of his methods. Sounds like you haven't gone through that experience, but a lot …

If Mangione was the CEO's health insurer and knowingly denied him cancer treatment the CEO's doctor said he needed, all to boost his quarterly earnings, resulting in his death, wou…

The only reason in my mind to view Mangione unfavorably is that vigilante justice, however justified, does not result in a civilization anyone would want to live in. It's the same …

If you think all denied claims are denied in good faith, I don't know what to do for you. The insurers are hardly running up against hard resource limits, where there just isn't en…

> This seems contradictory. The first seems like wishful thinking/unclear rationalization. The second implies a contradiction. Why are the polls relevant unless you mean to suggest…

> I don't think this is accurate. What do you mean by this? China has never abided by WTO rules and has engaged in rampant dumping for decades, among IP theft and other unfair prac…

The argument is self-evident. Businesses need sales to make money. By refusing to allow them to export, you artificially limit the sales they are able to make. Businesses with fewe…

Yes, in China's case through mass exports. What you're suggesting is North Korean Juche. Turning China into a larger North Korea will not increase its prosperity.

Because that would lead to mass unemployment and deindustrialization, as China lacks the wealth among the lower classes and the demographics to consume everything that it produces.…

China does not treat us as a partner any more than we do them. They have spent decades exploiting good will and abusing any attempts at genuine partnership. I don't blame anyone fo…

"Please consult your history?" You could replace "China" with "The USSR" in this post and be almost indistinguishable from arguments straight out of the 1950s. You point to univers…

Plus, China's growth to this day is built on the back of foreign, primarily American, consumption. If they ever beat us too badly, they go down with us. They'd need to find alterna…

In my experience, when someone (not being euphemistic, I've witnessed it many times) too mission-focused tries to get beyond program-level leadership they inevitably get sidelined …

Even at a basic level when asking the AI how to do something in a new language, sure it saves time, but I no longer have to manually scan documentation and get the incidental disco…

Is it? Another is that modern society has created a system where advancing to the top ranks of corporate and political leadership requires mediocrity, and excellence is actively di…