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zenathezee · 17 days ago

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My insurance isn't great but one time someone found out their unborn baby had a 0% chance of living after birth without severe intervention and my insurance funded the extremely careful C-section and the highly experimental surgery on the newborn that was whisked away as soon as he hit air. That child would have died, or the parents would have been in literal millions of debt, except there was someone on the other end of the claim that said yes, this baby deserves a chance to grow up, we will pay for this 2% chance at life. Now he's a toddler and perfectly healthy and every time I think about the UHC CEO I remember how an algorithm he endorsed sentenced sick people to death because of profits and how his company would have denied this claim and every appeal in a heartbeat. Our premiums went up a couple dollars the next year, but a child wasn't left to die because the parents couldn't afford to pour millions into a 2% chance at life

How many people died because they/their loved ones couldn't afford to ruin themselves financially on a 2% chance? How many died or lived with easily negatable suffering because their insurance wouldn't pay out for the things they have insurance for? How much blood did Brian Thompson have on his hands? Why are people surprised when the populace rejoices over the death of someone who spent their time making people's lives worse?

#yes I said something #distracted at work and can't stop thinking about the shooting #my first thought at the headline was 'oh no another victim of gun violence' then it sunk in who he was #and while I don't want to be the kind of person to wish death on others #you can't argue with the results #considering they're no longer putting a cap on anesthesia #I also think it will hurt me emotionally in the long run if I celebrate deaths buuuuuuuut #this feels like the start of something. like the rich are about to fear for their lives for realsies #because the system isn't working and we've elected people devoted to dismantling what does or could work for the betterment of all #so people have lost trust in the institutions supposed to aid them #but you know what they can get out of the system? guns #maybe this is the start of a new era of vigilante justice #maybe this is the start of major companies urging for stricter gun control laws because their CEOs are in the crosshairs #I brushed this off at first but the more I think about it the more it feels like a sign of what's to come #change is happening and this is a warning #and for once the warning isn't to the average citizen that their lives are about to be much worse #it's a warning to the rich and powerful that sometimes not even money can protect you from the consequences of being evil #your victims will not mourn you #do not live a life where people celebrate your death as an end of you enacting evil upon the world

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