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There is no single regulator for a private health-insurance company, even when it is found to be violating the law. For United's practices to be curbed, mental-health advocates told ProPublica, every single jurisdiction in which it operates would have to successfully bring a case against it. Thompson's murder is one symptom of the American appetite for violence; his line of work is another.

https://archive.ph/TytsZ

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-america

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Now i can't tell if i think The Adjuster or The Regulator is a better nickname

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

All those billions and they’re denying people meds or operations? Then the author has the audacity to ask where people’s humanity is? Where was the humanity when UHC was denying people medication or life saving operations? Heaven help us as “humans”.

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

when all legal avenues of recourse have been blocked off, only violence remains shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Bidentime@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

The thing i have never understood about our horrible healthcare system is just how much every other industry just accepts it. You would think so the other capitalist would see this leech on society costing them additional billions in profit. But nope.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

There is if you vote

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Marx may or may not have failed to consider this, but Warren G did not