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DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by solid_fuel »

complianceowll wrote: post #83
solid_fuel wrote: post #61

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That’s very often the case with these guys. No one can seriously look at the modern political landscape in the United States and seriously claim that both parties are effectively the same, or even that they both bear equal responsibility for the terrible state of government. The Republicans have been in the business of scrapping the US for parts since the 90’s, it’s just accelerating. At worst, the Democrats have bee…

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What a truly pathetic life it must be, just lying about your politics on hacker fucking news because you know they’re so indefensible.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by solid_fuel »

complianceowll wrote: post #84
Sabinus wrote: post #74

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But why is he obfuscating so much? What motivates one to lie about their own politics for so long?

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You are a liar, it has been demonstrated. If you feel such a shame about your beliefs because you really do understand deep down that they’re wrong and that you are sinning, you should repent.

To continue to behave like you have been outs you as cowardly little worm.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by solid_fuel »

complianceowll wrote: post #82
solid_fuel wrote: post #41

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This urge to defend the indefensible and “both sides” the most corrupt administration in American history is exactly the problem. Go take a look in the mirror.

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> I took a look in the mirror and loved what I saw.

I bet you did, Narcissus.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

ceejayoz wrote: post #68
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #63

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You expect the Russians to strip search the President of the United States to check for a listening device when they know that person will be in the room to hear whatever is said anyway, and the US to agree to that?

I would expect the Russians to monitor for active electronic devices.

At which point they can tell that he wears a watch but not whether the watch is a recording device, and can't detect shielded devices that can record audio onto internal storage with no RF emissions, and still can't do anything if he remembers a phrase and asks for it to be translated later.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

ceejayoz wrote: post #69
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #65

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So now we can deduce what this is really about. Translators are civil servants with security clearances, not reporters. When the leaders of Germany and Brazil have a meeting, they may say things they don't intend for China and everyone else to know about, and it isn't the translator's job to report what was said to the media. Unless they've witnessed something on the scale of criminality that they need to act as a wh…

> So now we can deduce what this is really about. The fact that he can't keep his own story straight? In either instance?

Which is the part that isn't news. Meanwhile we're being offered some kind of nonsense theory implying Russian collusion.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #80
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #30

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You're implying that something would have changed if a different person was shot instead. Structural problems don't work like that. The individual players have the incentives created for them by the system. To change it you need to change the game, not the players.

It would have changed if healthcare CEOs kept getting shot. One getting shot is an anomaly; if one were being shot every week, then the system they operate under would be different. (To be clear: I am not advocating for changing the system in this way. A world ruled by vigilante justice is not a good world to live in.)

If by "it" you mean the company would hire more security to prevent that from happening.

Health insurance companies don't have absurdly high margins. They offer more expensive plans and less expensive plans. The less expensive plans will cause more claims to be denied (not covered by the cheaper policy), the more expensive plans cost more.

People both can't afford the more expensive plan and can't afford to have a claim denied and then get upset, but the company can't actually fix that because it's caused by the regulatory environment. The only way for them to deny non-trivially fewer claims is to charge higher premiums. To actually fix it you have to solve the scarcity problems -- get rid of certificate of need laws, open more medical residency slots, require price transparency, etc., so that people can afford the plan that denies fewer claims. But those are all things the government would have to do rather than the company.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by sbayg »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #66
sbayg wrote: post #54

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Just because most of critics are brain dead morons doesn’t mean Trump is a great guy or above the same level of scrutiny shown to previous presidents.

That was literally the point. People should stop making farcical complaints that discredit the critics. When you cry wolf every day, eventually the wolf comes.

False flag farcical comments will always be a thing.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by ceejayoz »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #95
ceejayoz wrote: post #69

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> So now we can deduce what this is really about. The fact that he can't keep his own story straight? In either instance?

Which is the part that isn't news. Meanwhile we're being offered some kind of nonsense theory implying Russian collusion.

Ah, there it is.

Re: DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

sbayg wrote: post #97
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #66

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That was literally the point. People should stop making farcical complaints that discredit the critics. When you cry wolf every day, eventually the wolf comes.

False flag farcical comments will always be a thing.

When the farcical comments are from major institutions writing under their own name, that's not a false flag, that's just what their own flag stands for now.
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