UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

Post by tilne » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 8:55 AM UTC

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> My point is that these rich bastards are playing by the rules the American citizens set up. Mmmmmmm.... yes and no? Like it's cliche to blame everything on Reagan but the number of modern social ills that can be directly traced to the Reagan admin and the political movement behind it really does baffle the mind. Ills such as, for example: - The deregulation of corporate finances, that permits the massive stock buyb…

That is very close to my point. It is very easy to focus on a shady cabal and ignore the plurality of our countrymen that actively think and want something different. It is like there is a deep denial that real humans often want something different, and that we are forced to share a democratic society with them, which means losing on issues where we think we are right.

Post by Clubber » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 10:23 AM UTC

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Yea I saw that, but in the affidavit, it claimed he broke the rule that wasn't in effect yet. "Well he did other stuff," true or not, is kinda hand wavy. They weren't wearing body cams which is required by law. They could have pulled him over, it was a sloppy raid by a sloppy agency who didn't even follow the law themselves. Apparently the lie, was that he stated on the forms was he answered yes on the question regar…

I have so much disdain for these organizations.. there's a really important debate to be had about the role of firearms and firearm laws and overzealous Federal agents, but the NRA/SAF aren't interested in honest debate, they're just fear-mongering ghouls pumping out bullshit to fundraise off of. I looked into the Fincher case, and it's another case that SAF is basically just lying about. They can run these insane he…

Post by rsanek » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 10:39 AM UTC

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There's an ongoing "all the big liberal cities are scary" vibe in much media that's been internalized by a large proportion of the population. I know multiple people (and have myself experienced this) who've been greeted with warnings and concern from relatives when traveling to major cities... when those cities have violent crime rates far lower than the places they/we live. Like, a fifth as much or lower. It's stil…

As someone who lived in NYC all the way from the early 80s up until 2 years ago and still has to travel there regularly for business, NYC is a lot closer to how it was in the mid-80s than any other point during that period. Especially post-9/11 up until COVID it was practically Disneyland. You had little chance of being a victim of random crime in the vast majority of city neighborhoods or on the subway. That's certa…

Post by Clubber » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 11:09 AM UTC

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I think a main root cause of high insurance costs is failure of govt to break up health company monopolies and other impediments to a competitive marketplace like no individual mandate which should make it hard for smaller players to take on risk that they can afford to manage.

wrong take, companies started consolidated right after ACA passed. It was less concentrated industry before the ACA. the fundamental reason is as usual: too much government regulation that was erected with good intentions, but ended up becoming a competitive Moat that reduced the competition and entrenched big players. With that amount of regulation healthcare should be universal like in Canada or UK. To maintain pri…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 11:43 AM UTC