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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Nah, this is going to blow up. Luigi will be in the news pretty much weekly for the next 18-24 months. This is just starting to roll.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if he's willing to keep going hard and tank his own defense.

    If he was, and his lawyers were willing and able, I still don't know what it would look like. Maybe maneuver some kind of disclosures that wouldn't otherwise be available. But that was suppose to be the case with Ghizlane Maxwell too and look how it turned out.

    In terms of broad social effects, Shinzo Abe is the only example to look at that I'm aware of.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There's no disclosure that will matter. What would that be? That health insurance companies did their best to avoid paying out claims they knew to be legitimate? That they delayed coverage of medical produceres hoping the patient would just die before they had to pay? All of that is literally what they're supposed to do. That's their purpose. They maximized shareholder value by doing those things. Their CEOs got bonuses by doing those things.

    Private for-profit insurance is inherently parasitic. Every dollar they earn in revenue is literally just inefficiency in health care spending, and they are directly incentized to maximize those dollars.

    The health insurance industry itself needs to be destroyed, or at least shrunken massively. A huge number of Americans, even many who claim to want single-payer health insurance, will oppose political movement in that direction.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Roll into what? People are willing to read, and bitch online. Occasionally, you might get them to vote. Nothing will happen beyond that.

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  • [+] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don’t see a mechanism for converting that action to large scale movements

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's the point. The commenter said it is just the start and things will improve without any hints of doubt. It sure would be great but from the part incidents, it is just unlikely. No one can predict the future but imo it is definitely more likely for almost no noticeable impact than the end of entire for-profit medical industry.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    People are willing to read, and bitch online.

    People? Or you?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Wellll..since nobody seemed to vote last cycle they kinda got a point

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's because voting does nothing, especially not in Amercia. The choices were between a fascist and a neoliberal stooge.

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