A community to post anything related to Luigi Mangione.
This is not a pro-murder community. Please respect Lemmy.world ToS.
However, while it's understandable for consumers to get angry at their health insurers, it is also important to remember "there is no easy answer" for such companies as they navigate costs and care, Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Newsweek.
There is a very easy answer. Eliminate the health insurance companies. They do not improve healthcare and serve only to increase costs by extracting profit.
The profit motive does not belong in any industry of necessity.
The capitalists have metastasized into education, Healthcare, and bastardized any and all forms of food to maximize profit at the expense of their humanity.
They've brought us to our knees, and before the capitalists are done, death will be a mercy to most.
Education in the US was at its height when it received ample public funding.
Luigi offers an easy answer
They are a wholly unnecessary middleman extracting a rent where none is due. They slow down the speed of care and needlessly complicate a very simple system.
It should not exist. They're the landlords of medicine. Entirely pointless and nothing more than a detriment to the profession, service, and function of healthcare no matter if its picking up a z-pack for bronchitis or having a tumor removed. Healthcare insurance serves no purpose whatsoever.
I can't even start to understand how a healthcare organization has a stock price. They should be nonprofits to start with.
And this brings up the other thing they are struggling to recover from. They were sued by blackrock for taking care of people too well.
Blackrock, that investment firm that you can't even divest from because your pension is tied to it. Which really peels back some layers on root cause analysis. Because blackrock and vanguard get management of this money pretty much by default when there is an institutional pension they have fuck you money. As in fuck you, it's my money till 40 years in the future.
The Healthcare United CEO is just middle management. All he's doing is taking orders in hopes doing that enough means his company survives. If he doesn't then the private equity firms and banks just fund the guy who will.
Larry Fink is the real management.
Prosecute United Healthcare for murdering their policy holders.
Literally murdering. They were asking healthcare providers at assisted living facilities to change elderly patients' records to add DNRs that the patients hadn't authorized.
Literally altering medical records to make sure people die instead of costing money.
Free Luigi, and compensate him with a few million dollars from United Healths bloated coffers for inflicting so much anguish on this innocent young man.
The United Healthcare AI that killed your grandmother and mine is still at large.
We can talk about Luigi's alleged crime once this systemic violence is deposed.
AI is just like the "illegals" that "stole" your job. Profits dictated that the company hire someone for much less than you. AI didn't invent itself to steal your job. AI didn't wake up and decide it's gonna let Grandma die in the nursing home. The company let AI do it, set the guidelines in which AI would come to that conclusion and ultimately pointed AI at every customer and hit the on button.
Please don't manufacture this as an AI crisis. It's a healthcare crisis caused by greedy people. End of story.
Fair point. AI is a tool.
In the hands of Anarchists, we could use AI to make Salvador Allende's CyberSyn dream come true, even without a State.
And in the hands of Capitalists, it is a tool for mass murder. That doesn't absolve the murderers. It condemns them all the more for their lack of imagination, their inability to see beyond their quarterly profits.
"corporate tragedy"
The Shakespeare of our time
Luigi allegedly killed one man
United Health kills thousands on a regular basis
EDIT: .... thanks for the clarification (I'll remember it from now on)
Luigi has yet to be convicted of anything, but the sentiment remains.
That's even better
Luigi allegedly killed one man
United Health most definitely kills thousands on a regular basis as a matter of company savings and profits
I should additionally mention that I find the evidence that has been publicized so far has not convinced me they even have the right fucking guy
Isn't this headline a bit legally sketchy being at he's not been sentenced yet
This comment is legally sketchy being that in order to be sentenced you need to be guilty? He hasn’t been found guilty yet.
ESPECIALLY, since he was at my place, playing PS5 with me, when the Murder allegedly happened!
And either before or after he was at my place vibe coding some fixes for civ6. Guy is a real GOAT.
Great news and this comment would get me banned elsewhere and that's why I am here .
Oh no...
Anyway
I don't give a single shit about the welfare or public approval of any large profit corporation. I care even less about UHC specifically.
Anyone who still works there is complicit. The entire health insurance industry needs to be taken down and everyone involved shunned from society forever. It's an atrocity.
Hey, where do you work? - Oh I work in the health insurance industry - That's disgusting, I am leaving.
The shooting "tarnished UnitedHealthcare's reputation and disrupted its operational stability," Ge Bai, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, told Newsweek.
No, it did not, don't pin that one on Luigi.
UnitedHealthcare did that all on their lonesome, by profiteering on people's pain and suffering.
“In a statement today, interim CEO of Cockroach Inc. expressed extreme displeasure that Luigi shined a light on their roaches nest for others to see.”
Bold of the writers to chose the word "Recover" as related to Luigi. Could have been something like, "United Healthcare Struggles to Resume Exploitation After Luigi" or "Unites Healthcare Struggles to Interfere with Healthcare after Lugi".
1st, Luigi didn't do it.
2nd, when was Brian Thompson's killer the CEO of United...?
They're struggling to get over their own policies which were already unpopular but did serious damage once people discussed how crappy those policies were. Luigi was the spark. They built the house of match sticks and poured gasoline on it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Oh no that’s unfortunate.
