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    Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

    Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

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          It’s a pharmaceutical company. They’re no saints, but it’s disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.

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            Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?

            “In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill.”

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              Martin worked at Retrophin and Turing Pharmaceuticals but mostly he was a hedge fund manager.

              Got nothing to do with Parker or Mangione.

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            people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp

            They don’t even do that. Their incentive is to deny coverage. They’re not healthcare insurance companies, they’re healthcare rationing companies. And we pay them.

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    I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn’t think they’d be this obvious about it.

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      That was the magistrate. Whether the trial will be biased is something we don’t know yet.

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    There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

    Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.

    Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.

    As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.

    And now he’s getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.

    If we’re going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let’s start with the cops.

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    I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they’re charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn’t that make this a serious conflict of interest?

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      No. It’s inexcusable. Even if he pooped on her lawn she should have no right to be legally judging him.

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      Can’t help but be biased here. The facts fit too well. Remember, bias has to do with the perception of poor judgment. We don’t need to gamble on it.

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    you people clearly don’t know what you are talking about. “conflict of interest” only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires

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    This motherfucker was chosen specifically because of his racist and homophobic bias. Endorsing him is endorsing his prejudices.

    Go on, you pieces or shit. Defend this horrifying bastard. It just places you on the same disgusting level as him.

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      Nope. the days of pretending are over. Now its the days of gangsters with “fuck you money” ruling the country, and everyone else being told to deal with it. Basically Russia in the 1990s as everything is robbed and pilfered by private interests

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          Well, they control the media, they monitor the tools we use to communicate with each other online. they spy on us. Most of the governments are subservient to them. And the few times someone actually does get through to burn something or someone, they pull out all the stops, and charge them with terrorism.

          seems to me that the “world elites” already won the game.

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      Maybe this is a good thing? I’m not super familiar with american justice system but isn’t his case is mostly betting on jury acquitting or using jury nullification or at least taking him to strong settlement? Having a judge like this would definitely sway the jury in Luigi’s favor.

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    Say what you can about communism, but you clearly see that capitalism is so much worse.

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      lol and I say this as someone who grew up in Soviet occupied eastern europe. Trust me, there are very few systems worse than communism, well at least, that version of it.

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        Free medicine is nice, though. Not very high quality sometimes, but still better, than bankruptcy after ambulance ride.

        Free high school education is a good option too.

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          Will you develop medicine for free? Will you do 8+ hour long surgeries for free? Will you teach children at school for free?

          Nothing is free, buddy. If sth appears to be free, it’s only because someone sponsors it.

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      Okay, move to Cuba or North Korea where they still try to pursue communism and where they still have not realized how broken system it is. You will surely enjoy life there :D

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    This should be an automatic forced recusal.

    But it wont be, because the billionaires and CEOs are scared, and don’t care about the appearance of propriety. They want Luigi sacrificed on an altar to instill fear and intimidation into those that might follow his example.

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    Definitely good reason to get them swapped out for a different judge but are they going to oversee the whole trial or just the pretrial?

    Also, they were an executive at Pfizer, not an insurance firm.

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      Yes, you’re right, Pfizer has absolutely no relationship with the insurance companies.

      We’re idiots guys, let’s pack it up and move on!