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[–] [email protected] 374 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Threatening the hospital that was denying my father care, leaving him to die, was the only way I got into the literal board room to reason with them. I got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

He still died because he was so sick at that point that they couldn’t do the procedure he needed when he first arrived.

So I threatened them in 2010, and I’d fucking do it again now for my child. We are supposed to stand up for our loved ones.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's disgusting. There needs to be legal recognition of all that is at stake for patients and their families. The denial of necessary care is structural violence and should be treated as such by everyone.

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

Agreed. It’s straight up murder

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

I had to play this card once, too. I was in the cardiac unit for 28 days, and they were going to send me home because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, and the insurance decided I wasn’t worth the expense anymore.

I refused to leave until they gave me a diagnosis, because i would have just died otherwise.

Pretty sure the healthcare system still wants that.

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[–] [email protected] 265 points 1 week ago (9 children)

So, no free speech in the US after all?

[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Depends on how much money you have.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago

🌎👩🏼‍🚀🔫👩🏼‍🚀

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I imagine the "Delay, Deny, Depose" didn't get her in trouble nearly as much as the "You people are next" part. Yeah, that's a bit hostile there.

[–] [email protected] 286 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She's being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,

"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago

Ouch. "This place is a shit show," the judge said. (Not really, just fixed it for him).

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I've met victims of domestic violence who were threatened much worse than "you guys are next" so I'm not buying this as anything other than the system trying to use her as an example.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

There's no direct threat there more than saying the boogeyman will get you. People threaten marginalized communities like this on TV, radio and social media every day with no impunity because it's just vague enough not to count because stochastic terrorism is totally cool for SOME people.

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Remember this the next time the cops tell someone they can’t do anything about a stalker or angry ex threatening to kill them until they actually act. They can do something. They choose not to.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Judges too! He set her bail at 100K. Rapists get less than that.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 week ago (31 children)

She said "Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," according to the article.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny part is insurance companies hear worse than this all day long however this is their trigger.

L O L

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

I hope she's right

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Proof that the justice system only serves the wealthy.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's make them more..... concerned.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (4 children)

From the article’s source article:

“She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” said Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.

I thought we had a legal definition of a real threat, and this isn’t it.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

This man on the other hand was released after his EIGHTH stalking arrest in three years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/plano-man-8th-arrest-stalking-harassing-smu-students/

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (15 children)

After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.

"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Thank goodness for that freedom of speech we have ...

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Attorneys have said the insurance industry uses a "delay, deny, defend" tactic to withhold health care services.

Jailed for using words to describe what insurance companies do?

Judge is trying to fill their year-end quota.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Looks like a lot of us are going to jail over the next 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well yeah, those camps won't fill themselves!

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Nothing like jail time to radicalized someone more. Judge is playing 5d cheese by providing motivation.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Freedom of speech, as long as it's completely meaningless.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm sure the "Free Speech" people are up in arms about this, right?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol, catch phrase or actual corporate practice? Because quoting a company memo to said company is apparently a threat.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"You people are next" does seem pretty threat-ish, however:

After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.

That is completely out of touch with what happened. "You people are next" not an act of terrorism.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why? She was delayed, denied, and deposed. If it's so bad then jail the insurer.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Delay, deny, and depose the FBI. The FBI isn't acting like this during a Trump presidency, this is the most lenient it gets at, during a democratic presidency. With a Trump presidency, Americans should familiarize themselves with current Russian society to know what they should expect for its future. Fuck your messed up police state, Americans, and fuck a constitution that only seems to be propaganda bullshit that is too much for the FBI to live by.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This will definitely ease tensions among the masses and rouse support for the Healthcare execs lmao

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Her expression says I can't believe this shit. I can't, either.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve heard worse death threats in Fortnite.

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