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Murdoch Outlets and Bezos’ WaPo Demand More Sympathy for Health Insurance Execs (fair.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28083015

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23136365

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] irreticent 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's that from? Or did you just come up with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Sure, once they have sympathy for the people they've killed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Starts out with a news post from the 1900's pretending it's so uncommon for people to not be too unhappy about bad people being no more.

Did they just forget the submarine with the Logitech controller?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This and similar claims are repeated quite often. But it seems a bit misleading:
Restricting people's urgent medical care for months on end does end in early death, or severe health consequences.

How severe this issue is, I don't know. But this is a point I've heard quite frequently now.

When this inefficient system doesn’t literally kill Americans, it can still kill them financially. “Almost a third of all working adults in the United States are carrying some kind of medical debt.