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Garibaldee ( Garibaldee@lemm.ee )  to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Say Insurers' Greed Played Role in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing | Common Dreams

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  • EarthShipTechIntern ( EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ) 
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    What’s wrong with the other 3/10?

    • warm ( warm@kbin.earth ) 
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      trumpers

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 ( HK65@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        Even Trumpers seem to be on the right side of this mostly.

      • inv3r5ion ( inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Nah, this act was unifying. Everyone but the elites and pearl clutching servants of the elites is in support of this.

        • EarthShipTechIntern ( EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ) 
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          Right? And that’s <1/10!

          I guess 3/10 might consider themselves “elite”.

          Head-up-assness is rampant these days, after all.

    • Rivalarrival ( Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) 
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      They hung up on the pollster before giving an answer.

      • TachyonTele ( TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
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        They couldn’t stop laughing long enough to answer before hanging up.

    • ElegantBiscuit ( ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee ) 
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      Out of every poll on pretty much any topic, you can typically expect anywhere from 10%-33% of people who will believe just about anything no matter how asininely stupid the option they are choosing is

    • HubertManne ( HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 
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      they believe all corporate greed and wealth consolidation is to blame.

    • linuxgator ( user1234@lemmynsfw.com ) 
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      They’re in a coma from something that could’ve been cured had their insurance paid for the proper treatment

    • Black616Angel ( Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      They misunderstood the question thinking it was about Luigi being the greedy one.

  • nova_ad_vitum ( nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ) 
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    The ideal outcome from this would be comprehensive health care reform in the US, probably including single-payer health care for all Americans. Neither major party will support it and even though a majority of Americans support it, they don’t know how to use the democratic system to get it. All of the republican party and 75 percent of Democrats will take health industry money to preserve the status quo. The few progressive Democrats who actually attempt to take this on will have to fight most of their own party, and they can never win that way. Americans are also rather easily distracted.

    Unfortunately the most likely outcome of this whole thing is, within a small margin of error, nothing.

    • Rivalarrival ( Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) 
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      Nah, this is going to blow up. Luigi will be in the news pretty much weekly for the next 18-24 months. This is just starting to roll.

      • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Removed by mod

        • Rivalarrival ( Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) 
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          People are willing to read, and bitch online.

          People? Or you?

          • Che Banana ( The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
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            Wellll…since nobody seemed to vote last cycle they kinda got a point

            • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 
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              That’s because voting does nothing, especially not in Amercia. The choices were between a fascist and a neoliberal stooge.

              • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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                Thanks for making my point.

                • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 
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                  You’re welcome!

              • Che Banana ( The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
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                No no no…just vote harder…trust me bro…just this next time we’ll have an effective government…trust me bro

      • quickleft ( quickleft@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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        I wonder if he’s willing to keep going hard and tank his own defense.

        If he was, and his lawyers were willing and able, I still don’t know what it would look like. Maybe maneuver some kind of disclosures that wouldn’t otherwise be available. But that was suppose to be the case with Ghizlane Maxwell too and look how it turned out.

        In terms of broad social effects, Shinzo Abe is the only example to look at that I’m aware of.

        • nova_ad_vitum ( nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ) 
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          There’s no disclosure that will matter. What would that be? That health insurance companies did their best to avoid paying out claims they knew to be legitimate? That they delayed coverage of medical produceres hoping the patient would just die before they had to pay? All of that is literally what they’re supposed to do. That’s their purpose. They maximized shareholder value by doing those things. Their CEOs got bonuses by doing those things.

          Private for-profit insurance is inherently parasitic. Every dollar they earn in revenue is literally just inefficiency in health care spending, and they are directly incentized to maximize those dollars.

          The health insurance industry itself needs to be destroyed, or at least shrunken massively. A huge number of Americans, even many who claim to want single-payer health insurance, will oppose political movement in that direction.

    • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 
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      Until this is resolved, lives are likely to keep ending…

      If you know what I mean 😉

      • UltraGiGaGigantic ( UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) 
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        I know. People will keep getting their healthcare denied by for profit corporations. :(

        • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 
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          I was hinting at something else. But yeah, sadly probably true, wish my hinting was the true one though.

    • inv3r5ion ( inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Unfortunately the most likely outcome of this whole thing is, within a small margin of error, nothing.

      Agree politically but disagree when it comes to stochastic terrorism. The people are fed up and the government has been out to brunch for decades.

  • IninewCrow ( ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) 
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    You needed to conduct a survey to figure this out?

    • DeadPand ( DeadPand@midwest.social ) 
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      Better to have receipts than none, yea?

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    I assume the other 3 are in elementary school and don’t understand the concepts yet?

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