• irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They think death, media popularity, and being remembered is going to dissuade others who are facing a lifetime of severe pain because their heath insurance won’t pay for treatment?

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      4 months ago

      Or a lifetime of abject poverty despite working an extremely labor intense job while not being able to afford to own a home or ever retire? This issue permeates beyond the awful “healthcare” system. We are now at a worse level of exploitation than was standard before the advent of the FLSA of 1938. This is the new gilded age and it needs to end immediately

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    That would be awfully hypocritical, given that Mangione’s crime in the first place was (allegedly) killing a mass murderer.