• meyotch@slrpnk.netOP
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    4 months ago

    I hope this case gets some attention too. This is some ginned up bullshit. We can’t let them stomp us into silence.

    I’m not celebrating a murder, this is some fucked up shit in many dimensions and I would prefer a different timeline.

    But remember we are not children who need to bow our heads and take our scolding.

    For-profit insurance companies are liable for the deaths they cause. Full stop.

    How’s that for moral clarity?

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      4 months ago

      She should not be charged in my opinion. It wasn’t a credible threat.

      What the shootings has done is shown how many Americans are fed up with the current system.

      You’re seeing stories from democrat and republicans.

      I don’t condone the violence at all but he may have sparked a medical revolution in our country.

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        4 months ago

        Do you have any links to conservative takes on this? I know full well I am in a bubble and that’s the way I god damn like it. But in this case, knowing the universality of the sentiment would be really, umm, empowering?

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          Well I am a conservative and mostly associate with conservatives. Talking to my liberal friends, their take is almost identical to my Republican friends.

          I don’t think people realized how aligned everyone is on this issue.

          It’s the stories that are coming out that is making people talk about this topic. Those stories were ignored until the CEO was murdered.

          People denied cancer treatment. wtf.

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            4 months ago

            I’ve lost several friends who couldn’t afford cancer treatments. I have one now who is looking for some help because their current insurance doesn’t cover excision of diseased organ, and open enrollment is over.

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              4 months ago

              Sorry to hear about your fiends. That’s bullshit.

              My dad died from cancer and the place where he worked was amazing. When you are out of work, you have to pay cobra.

              The owner of the company paid his full insurance till he died. My dad had only worked there a year or so. The owner said his employees are like family and he’d never let them be uninsured.

              Now the owner was wealthy but not that wealthy. He came to the funeral and brought his whole family.

              While it’s an amazing story, it sucks my dad could have been without insurance had it not been the the dentistry of his boss. The boss was also out of a lot of money and while he was wealthy, he wasn’t that wealthy.

              Nobody should have to deal with a chronic condition because of a lack of insurance. It’s a problem we need to solve and neither party really wants to solve it.

              I’m hoping Trump does something about it. This is his chance to blow everyone away with a solution. He’s supported a single payer system in the past. Let’s see him do it now.