This is partly just phantasmagoria, but just entertain me for a moment:
Maybe there should be. Maybe when it gets to a point where there is such a complete lack of humanity that they actually invest in automated systems to deny people care, while raking in billions of dollars, its time. Time to start taking people out. Like, plant that seed of doubt in the next guy, so that he thinks twice or hesitates in some way for such a glib, inhuman response to suffering.
Maybe its time to say its not just business. Its people. Its parents and children.
I think he’s talking about the kind of comprehensive purges that are necessary when leftists gain total power and need to figure out how to deliver on promises like…
Healthcare is a right. Housing is a right. Food is a right.
You gotta go out and get those things however you can and you gotta deal with all of the people who want you out of power. These reprehensible monsters are preventing all of the future good outcomes from materializing and must be dealt with.
Harshly.
You must have a really expensive policy. I have pretty comprehensive coverage on my vehicles now, but I’ve chosen liability only in the past. If I had gotten distracted and totaled my liability-only 1994 Buick LeSabre in a ditch, they would have covered exactly $0.00 of any claim I would have attempted.
Saying healthcare is a right usually includes the idea that the government, or rather our taxes, will pay for it. And given the fact that we provide healthcare for other nations, is it so wrong Americans they get something out of the taxes they pay? We literally gave Iraqis money to not kill American troops.
Who is the intermediary between the government and the people wanting paid?
See, you’re still talking partisan politics, but W Scott Peck was way ahead of you when he said (paraphrasing) "At the root of all criminal behavior is the thought ‘I’m going to get mine’ ". Sorry if I screwed up the quotes.
So who is doing this? The person who lost a loved one to something that could have been treated?
Or that guy making $10million per year and issuing bonuses to management for denying legitimate claims? Robo-denial none the less.
Yeah, this. My in-laws are from Vietnam. My father-in-law was put in a concentration camp after the war for 2 years. While he was there, my mother-in-law had to attend weekly village meetings were everyone had to take turns standing up in front of everyone admitting their sins of how they have fallen short as a good communist, and HAVING to rat out neighbors whether they had actually done anything or not. That is where this all leads.
I do lean a bit left in some regards, and the social safety net is one of them, otherwise I’m kinda split. Fiscal conservative/socially liberal, each side just a bit off from center.
It does concern me though, that the admin of the social safety net, that they are paid handsomely to administrate, have taken the “all conversations start at No!” tack.
My school board chairwoman legit did the whole commie struggle session thing with a friend of mine in response to very credible accusations of fraud. The same crazy lady just dispatched the superintendent to our most violent and chaotic elementary school to give the official statement of “nothing to see here folks”.
“I volunteer countless hours. What have you done?” was what I heard from this local government official and Party member. For the record, the woman who made the accusation is a retired public school special education teacher presently opening a daycare.
Maine is currently in the gaslighting phase, where all of these pie-in-the-sky promises have been implemented to varying degrees, but the situation just keeps getting worse and worse, however you can measure the situation in a society. This is when censorship becomes very important. Lacking that ability, they resort to character attacks of their political opponents.
That’s how all of this ties together. Leftists want all of the good things, and their opponents are trying to stop them, which makes them bad people who need to be stopped. Stopping them can even be seen as a life or death proposition, as long as you believe in the future good thing. Healthcare has always been a central aspects of those “good things” going all the way back to Bolsheviks and National Socialists.
Dude, I understand that you’re hurt by the situation in your town. And I agree with you.
But these are heads of private companies that agreed to admin the provisions of the ACA, are paid handsomely by Everybody (our government) and are denying care while making millions Personally.
How does the inherent wrongness of this escape you?
I’m not sold on health insurance being an inherently wrong idea. Making a profit by providing it isn’t inherently wrong either. This is similar to how I believe doctors can and should be able to price their goods and services appropriately in a way that makes becoming a doctor a worthwhile proposition for a greater number of people who are capable of becoming doctors.
Getting into value judgements about offering particular goods and services is where this idea flies off the rails and we adopt all of the things known to make goods and services less available.
And again, this all started with me saying that it isn’t badass to execute an insurance company employee.
