Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🦔🦡🦚 Thursday 12 December, 2024
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
It’s been a week since the killing of the health insurance exec
I have some thoughts.
The one thing the US general population and the media have not been discussing is that one of the big reasons insurance feels so expensive is because wages are one third the buying of what they were in the 1970s.
Low real wages is why everything feels so expensive.
And then there is denial of treatment or only allowing less expensive but less efficacious treatments. This makes people angry and they would probably be less angry if insurance was cheaper.
There has been no discussion of what governments have been doing and should be doing to stop insurance industry fraud and abuse. Using the justice system is not discussed or has been dismissed as being pointless.
There are still few statements by any politicians other than statements saying killing with guns is bad.
Every statement by medical workers has been anti-insurance. They hate the insurance industry ore than anyone. Newspapers have not interviewed one single health care worker about their experience.
I’ve been watching House, the tv series. Not one episode shows the time consuming battle doctors and admin have to go through to get the ok and to get money. That’s not very realistic is it. Maybe we need a show where the battle isn’t against germs but against insurance and the clock
I have found the response fascinating. Because of how I curate and limit my news I do tend to follow the type of people who are not inclined to have empathy for the victim here. But it’s much wider than that.
And on tv shows I think Scrubs is the only mainstream one I can think of that regularly touched on the financial aspects of health care.
I have zero empathy for the target but I don’t think killing is effective either.
The only way to fight powerful groups is with another powerful group. That’s why we have unions, business assocs, governments and trading blocs. The huge problem worldwide is that big business has subverted governments, meaning they are exploiting people and the world unchecked
Honestly I’m very supportive of it. I reckon he had it coming. The dude who’s been accused of the killing seems a little bit iffy, I do feel weird about supporting him particularly given he’s well off, but honestly, people in his financial position are the only ones who could afford legal representation good enough to at least hopefully not rot in prison for the rest of their lives, or cop the chair since they still have that in parts of NY
I believe I can do more good working inside systems (as a law abiding citizen) fighting to change them for the good of the masses than as a one time murderer of a single rich arsehole. But honestly, if I had no prospects, I could see myself doing something similar. And if there’s ever a large scale revolution, and people guillotining the rich, while I might not be the one doing it, I’m sure as shit going to be on the front lines cheering them on
indisin@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I don’t think that show would perform well in the entirety of the rest of the westernised world, which means it won’t make enough billions of dollars profit to be greenlit.