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Did UHC deny the CEO ambulance coverage? (they are famous as being the insurer to deny most claims in usa - 32% [1]) [1] https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/business/dealbook/unitedh...
> Get seniors on your plan
> Deny them care to save costs
> Bill the US government for nonexistent care anyway
> ???
> Profit
A grievance will be reported upon soon. If the gunman was trying to improve society, I'm not convinced they did anything but the opposite. - sad in that regard. Good luck to the tragedy in the background, and rip Mr. Thompson.
Laws are only as useful as the social contract they support.
What do you mean by this comment? Could you make your points explicit?
The (rare, perhaps crazy) people who shoot CEOs or armor bulldozers are what check the power of the state to ignore this part of its job.
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Why would the ATF give a shit? Tell me you aren't from a hunting state without telling me.. actual estimates of private sales range from 10% (NRA) to 22% (NPSOF) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28055050/
>Why would the ATF give a shit? Tell me you aren't from a hunting state without telling me.. This trope is so tired, but since you did it, tell me you don't keep up with gun regulatory news without telling me.. The ATF has been on a rogue rampage the last 4 years.
https://trac.syr.edu/reports/733/include/figure1.png
"Rogue rampage" indeed.. almost 10% higher than pre-covid Trump convictions and about the same level as we saw under GWB! Then again, the average person convicted in 2023 had >2 prior convictions and over 7 prior arrests so maybe these are actually just criminals? Wish everyone would decide if we should enforce laws or not.
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-fa...
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It's one of the so-called "Four boxes of liberty[1]". When the soap, ballot, and jury boxes are no longer effective, we should not be surprised when people increasingly reach for the ammo box. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
There is a big moral and social difference between an overwhelming majority of the people and a dissatisfied group. The ammo box is not justified and should not be tolerated simply because someone doesn't get what they want. That route is a quick decent to societal collapse. That is how you end up with your incels, anarchist, communists, and Christian fundamentalists shooting anyone who doesnt agree with them.
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Do you really think that murdering the CEO is going to spin off massive reform of US Healthcare? That’s the only way I could see anyone thinking this is “good”.
