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[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 142 points 3 weeks ago

(estimated) 52M membership × 32% denial rate = baseline 16M suspects

[-] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 76 points 3 weeks ago
[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

What I learned is that Kaiser actually has the lowest denial rate? Maybe the King did come for him...

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago
[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I think it's more likely that it was someone whose loved one was denied care instead of someone who was denied care themself.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Got to be a kill count up there with some pretty big dictators.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 116 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh no! I really hope this doesn't start happening to all of the CEOs and board members that make a profit off of legally killing people

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The thing that is entirely possible coming out of this is a boon for PMCs getting hired for far more visible corporate security. Hotels and roads shut down for CEOs as if they are heads of state. I guess it was inevitable and cyberpunk really is just life imitating art

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

So next stage are roadside IED?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not gonna tell you how to do your job

[-] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, Ukraine has already shown the world how regular consumer grade drones can be used as very effective military grade weapons. No need for a roadside IED when you can fly the IED right to their face.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah the second amendment crowd is about to go hard on drones to ensure their saviors remain safe. Weird how they are the first ones in line at school shootings about how guns aren’t the problem but they’re being pretty quiet about a dude shooting a guy across the street using a silenced pistol

[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because the hatred of health insurance companies is universal? It’s not like they deny claims based on who you voted for.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

True. Let’s not give them any ideas…

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

-- Network (1976)

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago

It’s unfortunate this is the reality that people are living with. Events like this will become more frequent if the billionaire class doesn’t do something about it.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 109 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no. I hope they don't keep getting submarined!

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 42 points 3 weeks ago

Has consequence culture gone too far?

[-] db2@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago
[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 58 points 3 weeks ago

In today's world people should be afraid to flaunt their wealth, pursue these big positions. There's so much inequality, I wouldn't want to be the one to have all the goods. I dont condone murdering people for it, we should eat them instead.

[-] Melt@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

No we feast on their money while they get to serve it up voluntarily to stay clear of the guillotine.

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[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They’ll do something about it alright, like pushing for further militarization of the police, increased government latitude to spy on civilians, and restrictions of what kinds of weapons we’re permitted to own.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah this is just the precursor to cyberpunk (both the genre and the franchise) where corporate CEOs move with militarized armed escorts and have free reign to control areas and traffic where they see fit

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Which will really drive hatred and show the wage slaves exactly who owns their country. Could backfire spectacularly.

[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's like a textbook example of justice being served one way or the other, if not in orderly respectable fashion then in an abrupt violent fashion.

Society failed them both.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago

Society failed them both.

I'd say society did pretty well by the CEO. It was unrelenting greed and placing profits over people that got him to his end. That's on him.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I think they mean that society, in its money worship, failed the guy killed. He obviously valued money over lives and he learned that somewhere.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

I think so too, but I disagree. No one is forced into a CEO lifestyle or profit-above-all mindset. I feel like that's pretty much on him. Echoing a comment I saw elsewhere - my empathy is out of network for this guy.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

As an aside I would say capitalism failed them. Society has existed and failed and evolved since people realized it was beneficial to work together. But that basic byline has always existed with those exploiting others. Roman society failed, feudal society failed, the first version of the US failed as a society, so on and so forth. In this lens, the version of society that failed is capitalism, or probably in this case late-stage capitalism

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago

Life denied due to preexisting case of terminal Affuenza

  • stolen from another lemmy
[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago
[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago
[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Lemme just empty my bank account for you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if this will spark anything?

[-] Shadywack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

XD omg

Someone show this to the /c/news mods, hahahahahahaha

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the text should be flipped lol

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