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America is going to miss Lina Khan a lot in the next 4 years.
Probably the best part of the biden administration. But let’s be real, the oligarchs were making moves to replace her either way.
Same as Katie Porter. Her white board was awesome for Americans, but also her death knell.
I’ve never seen a woman set herself up in a better position to run for office in this country though.
Just fucking write “tenfold”, Jesus fuck.
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I’m an idiot
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Horrible. A family member of mine needs a medication called Tolvaptan according to their doctor to prevent kidney failure due to a genetic disease.
From drugs.com: “The cost for tolvaptan (15 mg oral tablet) is approximately $4,482 for a supply of 10 tablets, while the brand Jynarque can cost around $21,238 for a supply of 56 tablets, depending on the pharmacy. Prices may vary based on factors like location and insurance coverage.”
15mg is the lowest dose of this medication too. Often the dose is 30mg or 45mg, up to 60mg max.
If you really want to get pissed off, google the same medication but in the Netherlands.
Unchecked capitalism is really something, huh?
We’ve tried capitalism 1000 different ways and we are out of ideas!
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So people are going to jail over this and proper hard measures are going to be taken to address the obvious imbalance of power that allows companies like this to do this over and over again right? They’re not just going to give the company another slap on the wrist fine that won’t even cover how much money they’ve stolen from people, leaving them still making a profit for doing this and leaving the door wide open for more abuse like that to happen over and over again, right?
Right?
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And why is execution not ok to skip to the end of again?
Sometimes courts are just delays to the justice we all know is coming. Kinda pointless to have a detailed decision of just how dead they should be.
Let’s just kill every insurance official. Insurance will just pay every claim ever now. If a readable request is submitted, it is approved. Just tap a random billionaire’s account directly for it.
I’m an ideal world people would just suffer immediately for every infraction. And even ONE instance of this is death worthy honestly. So I don’t need a giant list of every sorry decision they’ve ever made.
Fuck your budget, fuck your money, if you kill even one person with a “no” you go straight to hell later that day IMO. No mercy.
No one should die solely because they’re expensive to keep alive.
If we could get maga to stop defending these people and see them for who they are, it would be over pretty quick. They’re not very efficient, but they can break into some important buildings if they get riled up enough.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson
Not quite correct sort of. This is OptumRx, which is owned by United Health Group, which also owns United Health Care, which Brian Thompson was nominally the CEO of. In other words, this is like the sibling of the company Brian Thompson ran.
To be clear, Brian Thmpson wasn’t a billionaire, he was a mid-level at best millionaire worth only $41 million. He was just another star-bellied prole who thought he was in the aristocracy.
Point being, the whole thing is stupid. The health care system, the people getting rich off it, Luigi’s reaction to it, our reactions to it, the media’s reporting on it, all of it.
What part about our reaction, or Luigi’s, is stupid? Is it maybe, just maybe, totally justifiable anger?
Justifiable anger can be stupid and usually is.
Well, I don’t like it, but you’re right.
What are you trying to say? That you could do a better job then Luigi?
Brian Thompson was accessible and his location was known. Probably why Luigi allegedly went after him.
As many people here can tell you, I am not cheering on the idea of assassinating CEOs as a way of making systemic change because I simply do not think it will work.
That said, I 100% sympathize with Luigi Mangione and I 100% understand exactly why he did what he did. He was driven to the breaking point by a heartless company that, like all healthcare companies and, in fact, all for-profit companies in America that put their profits over human health and life.
He was desperate and driven to the brink of madness by the system that should have been helping him. Of course he did what he did. I’m honestly amazed someone hadn’t done it sooner.
I still don’t think it will solve a damn thing, and neither will killing a half dozen more healthcare CEOs if that happens, but I will totally understand if it happens again and likely sympathize with the killer.
Please don’t violate LW’s ToS. Be aware of what you’re posting publicly. This is not a bar with your friends. This is the internet where things are recorded forever and can possibly link back to you/us with consequences. It’s not that hard to express yourself without breaking the rules.
What did they do that broke ToS? It looks like the post may have been edited
Nothing yet. I’m just hoping people think a little before they do things to get banned/removed. The rules are for everyone’s benefit.
This is a post that will rightfully make people angry.
Ohhhh. That makes more sense now. Thank you for clarifying :)
EvErYoNe’s BeNeFiT
Yeah, it turns out threats of terrorism can look bad for you if they’re ever uncovered.
The greater good
Serinus is correct. They are rules to the benefit of everyone who wishes Lemmy.world to stay up which, since you’re here, presumably includes you.
The server is in The Netherlands. The Netherlands does not have freedom of speech. Calling for violence is illegal there.
If mods left calls for violence up all the time, there’s a good chance Lemmy.world could get shut down. Considering how much you participate here, I’m guessing you would not care for that.
Edit: Always love it when this explanation gets downvotes but the downvoters don’t actually chime in and say that yeah, they’d be fine if Lemmy.world gets shut down as long as they get to say what they want, when they want, wherever they want. Maybe if you just admitted it instead of getting pissed off at someone pointing out that speech can have negative consequences…
