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We're talking about criminal law. Can you clearly, objectively, without arbitrary valuation of goods or services, define a legal principle which identifies the point at which a health plan cut becomes a crime?
Well, if greed crimes were illegal, as OP wants them to be, there’s lots of options.
Yes, if you throw democracy in the trash, ignore the rights of the unpopular, and pass any law that appeals to today's public morality, then you'll have lots of options. I just don't want to hear you guys complain after this idealism gets spun to fuck you over by corporate lawyers more skillful than your populist politicians. But fuck me for pointing out the logical inconsistencies in the useless seething groupthink machine, I guess. Apparently I only have rights if the public likes me.
Pt 3.
Again, we're not writing law here. Nobody has even propositioned any concrete plan, or even an actionable statement to get this riled up about. The 'legal entanglement' you're speaking of is just fretting about the semantics of a law neither you nor anyone else has defined, and how if this hypothetical law is hypothetically written poorly; Which is a strawman you've created, deluded yourself into somehow being convinced is the most logical and reasonable stance to take, and the most accurate interpretation of events is both baffling, and really underlines how you're not here to discuss, just argue in bad faith and say, 'no this is bad because what if, if, if, ad infinitum.'
We discuss a general idea and intentionally leave the actual wording of the hypothetical law unsaid because that is none of our (including you) job to make, and to intentionally assume it's going to be written poorly or demand details like what you've argued above is really, once again, putting a nail in the coffin.
Also, nice hyper-focus to the literals instead of the practical argument being made. Nobody ever defined if we were discussing civil or criminal law, or even what classification it should be. So, would you mind explaining why you thought the example given would be inferred as a criminal offense?
Do you think anyone else but you is this stupid? Seriously, this is some piss poor arguing.