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I am listing your post too.
Monthly dose of insulin is 16€. You pay 800USD for it.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City
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Monthly dose of insulin is 16€. You pay 800USD for it.
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Same, except instead of pigs I had it set to spawn villagers because in the modpack I was playing you could drop them into a Tinkers Construct smeltery and they would melt into molten emerald and emeralds are a pain in the ass to find
If a testificate father tracked me down and shot me multiple times with an enchanted bow because I murdered his child for personal gain I'd understand
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Illegal aliens and failed asylum seekers make up close to 20 million Americans. Blacks make up around another 20 million.
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I really want the notes from the next investor meeting. Specifically that part where they have to disclose risks and issues. "Our customers are upset to the point high level employees are at risk of being gunned down in the street. We plan to mitigate this by drawing straws for the positions of CEO and CFO."
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- Police say Thompson's schedule for the investor conference was widely known.
- Detectives still do not have the suspect's name and they have his cellphone but have not accessed it.
- Police are still searching for the e-bike he used that was last seen on West 85th Street, and the backpack he was seen on earlier video wearing.
(so apparently his schedule was widely known, at least according to this news article)
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Except I think most people generally agree DB Cooper didn't survive the jump. Part of the money was recovered near the jump site, and the portion that didn't has never re-entered curculation (they have the serial #s for all of it).
This guy will hopefully fare better.
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they absolutely do. undesirables in the US use the Emergency Room as their only source of medical care. in the US ERs are (supposed to be) unable to refuse anyone for treatment, so you have people who will never be able to pay anything taking up resources and driving up prices for everyone else
your focus is on manufacturing existing medicine instead of the most important part of medicine, being able to research and design solutions that solve existing problems better and having the resources to create new solutions for new problems. anyone can copy someone else's work, which is what Europe excels in, but being able to have new and better technologies will continue to keep America at an advantage
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sounds like a perfect use for tariffs to keep cheap junk from 3rd world countries like Germany out of the US and only having locally manufactured goods available
insulin is a perfect example. you can buy basic human insulin at Walmart for $25. it's a perfectly good medication that's cheap and widely available and is the result of medical research by many different places coming together to solve a problem that hurts a lot of people. you can live perfectly fine on human insulin
you want analog insulin? the good stuff where a private company took a good general idea and improved it so much that retarded redditors don't even recognize the old, trusted solution as an option so they can rage against the (medical) machine? you're gonna pay for it. and you're only going to be able to get it from a small number of sources until the new, new insulin will eventually come around and then that will be the cutting edge medicine that costs money to make up how much R&D went into developing it
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Domain owners can almost always request that their own domain be excluded from the internet archive. Note that "Excluded" doesn't mean the archives actually get removed, they just won't be available for people to access.
Solution: use an alternative archive service to archive those internet archive archives.
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Reading the media is so fucking clear how much of it is bought off for some pearl clutching bullshit. For example, was reading the Atlantic(thank paywall remover) and they whine about how "killing CEO's won't solve anything!' They even list the various ways Insurance companies fuck people over.
"The recourse that unsatisfied Americans are supposed to have is to either switch insurers or elect politicians who will reform the current system. The ugly reaction to Thompson’s death shows how many people clearly feel that neither of those options is serving the country’s true needs.
The identity and motivation of Thompson’s killer are still unknown. His death could have nothing to do with the U.S. health-care system. (Shell casings reportedly found at the scene, were inscribed with the words deny, defend, and depose.) Even if the killer targeted Thompson for a reason unrelated to his job, the act has provoked a wave of Americans to erupt in anger about their health care. That they would publicly celebrate a man’s death suggests something much greater is broken in American society. Cheering on a vigilante may feel cathartic for those who are fed up with America’s current health-care system, but it won’t fix a thing."
Then what will Mr.Media Man? Switching insurances won't do shit and politicians are all bought off by these same fucks to never improve anything. People get pushed to the brink and shit like this starts happening. These fucks just don't understand why people like Trump and even Sanders are popular. People are fucking sick of this system. They are sick of the government not working for them and instead beholden to some corporate interest who's only goal is to squeeze every single fucking dollar until your left with nothing. So they go for extremes and become extreme.
You can't guilt people into being reasonable when the entire system is completely unreasonable.
"The recourse that unsatisfied Americans are supposed to have is to either switch insurers or elect politicians who will reform the current system. The ugly reaction to Thompson’s death shows how many people clearly feel that neither of those options is serving the country’s true needs.
The identity and motivation of Thompson’s killer are still unknown. His death could have nothing to do with the U.S. health-care system. (Shell casings reportedly found at the scene, were inscribed with the words deny, defend, and depose.) Even if the killer targeted Thompson for a reason unrelated to his job, the act has provoked a wave of Americans to erupt in anger about their health care. That they would publicly celebrate a man’s death suggests something much greater is broken in American society. Cheering on a vigilante may feel cathartic for those who are fed up with America’s current health-care system, but it won’t fix a thing."
Then what will Mr.Media Man? Switching insurances won't do shit and politicians are all bought off by these same fucks to never improve anything. People get pushed to the brink and shit like this starts happening. These fucks just don't understand why people like Trump and even Sanders are popular. People are fucking sick of this system. They are sick of the government not working for them and instead beholden to some corporate interest who's only goal is to squeeze every single fucking dollar until your left with nothing. So they go for extremes and become extreme.
You can't guilt people into being reasonable when the entire system is completely unreasonable.
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...it doesn't matter because the old insulin was fine and saved people's lives and gave them quality of life any way.
It's a great example of American pharma co investment because it doesn't cure anything new, or do anything to prevent a pending disaster like antibiotic resistance which is already killing people. It's just a way to bill people more for something they already had, that was already fine.
And I don't know why you're denying Frederick Banting and his team at the University of Toronto discovered insulin, or that U of T held the original patent. Or that the first heart transplant was in South Africa. Much of the actual innovation that matter happen outside the US, and it has for hundreds of years. If you go back to the 1700-1800s it's all Scotland and Germany.
Why are you lying when it's literally in textbooks about the history of medicine? You lying doesn't fool anyone into thinking the US healthcare model is the best or most innovative.
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Multiple US healthcare stocks are down since the killing happened, including UnitedHealth (which is now down 10%):
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They have honored requests from people that have threads here. Which is why it's a bad service for Farmers to use.
So, uh, yeah. Fucking multi-billion dollar corporations. You bet their ass they will.
EMTALA.
That was a "brilliant idea," under the Reagan administration, to allow insurers to keep doing their fuckery, but not have the bad PR of having people dying in the streets (among other things, the Soviets would make an issue of it to embarrass us on the world stage).
The hospitals get fucked on that one. I guess they had inferior lobbyists.
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I wonder if there will be more. Not by the same person, but you can bet that some other people who have thought about it are now getting inspired.
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Given that this sends a very loud message that corporate bigwigs are not as invincible as they previously seemed, I wouldn't leave it off the table. Whether or not they'll be able to evade law enforcement is another story, though.
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I don't want the American system where prices are so jacked up that you need healthcare to not guarantee getting fucked and still get fucked regardless. I also don't want the Canadian system where the government is so burdened down that it's easier for them to tell you to go kill yourself than install a wheelchair accessibility ramp at your house. We need a third option because healthcare is one of those inelastic demands - when you need it, you often don't have the time to go shopping around for it.
We are the single strongest economy in the world to the point that other nations have to form blocs in order to match us. We deserve better.
If it was the best in the world there would be no reason for people to be cheering on this man's death.
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Hope the fuckers stop shooting up high schools and see how beloved they could be if they pick good targets instead of hated.
Lolz
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I imagine that most of these C levels are going to start traveling with visible security now if they don't already. Not that that would stop someone with nothing to lose.
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i said in my post that human insulin came from university research and then a private company took that idea that created analog insulin. Eli Lilly & Co, an American company, created analog insulin under the brand name Humalog. are you not aware these are two different things? the original insulin came from university research, the new and shiny version that everyone actually wants came from a private company. that was the whole point of my post
now you're just sounding like a malding european. ASCHUKALLY if you go back to 200 fucking years ago it was non-Americans making all the good medicine. lmao
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We may as well be 300 years ahead of Europeans with how fast our invented system of government moves, which predictably changes because the US is an invented concept, can evolve. We’re dealing with issues you’ll see in 2400, we’ll have long found solutions but your arrogance will prevent you from adopting them.