this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
850 points (99.3% liked)

196

16721 readers
2286 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other^ ^rules^

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 34 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

a meticulously crafted email that UHC will promptly and carefully deliver directly to their recycle bin

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard someone hand delivered the messages in the form of bullet casings to the CEO, hopefully they got the message

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure there's nothing but the message in their head now.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So aim lower, and en masse…

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

or aim higher like someone famously did a day or two ago.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I made a giant collection of screenshots from Facebook of people who got denied coverage by them.

https://imgur.com/a/yczbSDa

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great work, B’oon

Also - removing Zuckerberg’s lil spyware from the URL:

https://imgur.com/a/yczbSDa

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

fbclid = facebook client id

Always delete this and everything after it, when you see it on an url.

It looks like this:

?fbclid=[ VERY LONG ID ]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ohh Client, must’ve forgotten that word

Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

fbclid = facebook client id

Always delete this and everything after it, when you see it on an url.

I can't find it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Then you're good, no facebook tracking you

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think you ought to submit this as a post and not just a comment, if possible. I think a lot of people would appreciate reading this stuff with the current discussion of UHC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm just not sure of a good community to post it in, since it's not a meme or an article. Any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure, honestly. Something general where this is being discussed, probably. Does anyone have any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is fantastic, thank you. Going to hammer this home to anyone who makes even a whiff of disapproval over that bastard's killing.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get the feeling the doctor was holding back when they wrote this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

He didn't have permission to vomit. Had to hold back

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's way more professional than I could manage under the circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rich people only consider other rich people people.

I say this to all working class people that vote Conservative.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The majority of people seem to think of themselves as just one lucky break away from being filthy rich.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And they're not wrong. All you have to do is say some dumb shit and go viral.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

some dumb shit

"Hawk Tuah" ..... Buy my crypto

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The reason why everyone wanted to be "influencer".

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

no cameras during training

implying you'll be on camera the entire time you work after training. don't just treat their customers like garbage, that apparently extends to their employees too (not that i'm suprised tbf)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

btw, the NHS in the UK offers a cautionary tale. Once it was a beacon of universal care. But look at how the decades of privatization have chipped away at its promise. Even now, UK workers defend it against the creeping tide of market logic, which has not ceased under Starmer because warfare matters more than healthcare to them.

It's absolutely clear: systems run for the many must remain in the hands of the many. This fight really requires worker control—why should administrators and profiteers dictate care when the expertise and needs of frontline medical workers and patients could lead?

Even if a mass movement for universal healthcare is born and somehow the government with both parties being virtually on the insurance profiteers' payslip somehow concedes, it will be immediately subject to sabotage.

And then the billionaire media would point a finger at the alleged inefficiency of "public services", all while it is implemented in a way where it isn't at the expense of

  • the military-industrial complex
  • the wealth of the mega-rich and their corporations' profits

so if not that, then it'd be financed at the expense of the already ballooning public debt, which would then be paid in austerity.

If universal healthcare is to succeed in the U.S., it must be accompanied by bold economic realignments: ending absurd military expenditures, expropriating billionaires and putting critical industries under public and worker control. Otherwise, the promise of care for all will collapse under the weight of contradictions, and the media will be more than happy to point fingers at "socialist inefficiency" while the real culprits—corporate greed and the war machine—walk away unscathed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, it's ultimately a cautionary tale as to why social democracy is unsustainable, as it is just the implementation of social policies while maintaining capitalist hegemony. There is no such thing as a benevolent oligarch. Capitalists have utilitarian reasons to implement pro-worker social policies, and it's usually to reduce unrest or increase productivity. The moment those reasons no longer become relevant, they will begin to dismantle it. Much of western Europe in general right now is suffering from nonstop austerity for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

#NYCWasSelfDefense

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would be skeptical of this, I haven't been able to find a source for it and most of its seems written in a way that creates the strongest emotional reaction in laypeople who don't know much about health insurance or chemo (e.g: me)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this seems fake. A person with a doctorate would use stronger language than "you poopy buttheads". They likely just googled the founder of chemo and called it good.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Wish doctors would deny health insurance CEOs all the same things they deny us.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's something Emiliano Zapata famously said about the bad government: "if there's no justice for the people, let there not be peace for the government". And yes, these men, if you can call them that, govern the American people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

i just wish they'd be willing to go on strike over it. a lot of them are unionized.