• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    11 days ago

    What’s with the push lately that I’ve seen to pretend that United and other healthcare CEOs weren’t shitting bricks and hiring personal security for months after he was killed?

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      11 days ago

      Well yeah, of course. More relevantly, I even heard their insurance approval rate shifted positive… For a few months anyway. But If it’s not back down already I assume it will be eventually. The profit pressure is still there.

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        11 days ago

        Right, they’re just using the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance (violent and nonviolent) is futile.

          • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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            11 days ago

            How else should we interpret “Remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare suddenly dissolved?” if not as: “the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance is futile”