• Nougat
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    1192 months ago

    Open letter to executive committees:

    That feeling you’re feeling right now? The one where you’re scared, at every moment of every day, at least a little, sometimes a lot, but never not scared?

    Yeah, the people you’re scared of feel that from about age five until they die, for all manner of reasons. They know how to go on with that fear inside them. You don’t. When - not if, when - shit goes sideways and you’ve got the resources that people need, they’re going to come take that shit from you, and there’s not a goddamned thing you’ll be able to do about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      It’s the same feeling parents of children with cancer feel when you deny their child treatment. The combination of fear and rage. You’ve had years of getting comfortable with handing out the fear, now you’re starting to learn what it means to have the rage come looking for you.

      • Nougat
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        102 months ago

        The whole point of insurance is that a bunch of people pay a bit of money so that none of those people have to choose between tragedy and financial ruin. Ideally, it is a 100% socialist contract.

        When the insurance company denies a claim, or otherwise stands in the way of someone receiving timely treatment, that contract is broken. It’s only a matter of time before someone who has been wronged comes to extract their pound of flesh, and I’m franlky surprised it hasn’t happened much sooner.

        That’s why this incident has generated so much indifference towards someone stalking and shooting someone else on the street in broad daylight. Because all of us have experienced that contract being broken. All of us are owed a pound of flesh, and we’re vicariously receiving it.

        Running insurance companies (again, insurance is ideally socialist) as capitalist endeavors (profit above everything, funneled to owners) is inherently abusive, and we all instinctively know this.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Agreed.

          Shareholders should never be part of the healthcare business.

          It shouldn’t be a business at all.

  • @Weslee
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    802 months ago

    Why do companies always forget that web archive exists?

  • @Darkard
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    612 months ago

    Here ya go. Just a little starter

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      What about a deck of cards for healthcare CEOs like we did in the Iraq with the most wanted high ranking officials?

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

      I like this one because anyone arguing this is wrong has to admit the US imperial war machine is far worse.

      “As of 2024, all but four of the 52 most wanted have either died or been captured, eleven of whom have been released.”

  • @SelfProgrammed
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    532 months ago

    To me, that’s a sign that they know they’re guilty.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      I’m not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves “let’s do evil today”. Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).

      • @InternetCitizen2
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        92 months ago

        Sometimes I jump on reddit and it wants me to checkout r/austrian_economics and its basically people doing just that.

    • @[email protected]
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      If there was a murderer who liked murdering people with blue jackets in your area, and you choose not to wear a blue jacket – is that a sign that you know you’re guilty, or just that you don’t want to be murdered?

  • @[email protected]
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    492 months ago

    And yet most of them are public companies. Who file annual reports. Which names the top executives. /facepalm

  • @RangerJosie
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    302 months ago

    Good. Be afraid mfers. Live in constant fear.

  • @IndustryStandard
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    292 months ago

    No way to find out who the CEO of a company is if they do not put it in the “about us” section of their website.

  • @_bcron_
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    272 months ago

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    • @lectricleopard
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      162 months ago

      This is the kind of thing DOGE will target. Any friction in the gov that slows the greed must go.

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    • @[email protected]
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      Don’t forget def-14a. This is where united health group puts their executive information (of which 3 executives made more than Brian in 2023)

  • Boozilla
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    172 months ago

    I’m not a legal / financial expert by any means. But I think info about the executives, board, etc., has to be published in things like the securities prospectus for the companies, etc.

  • @TommySoda
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    82 months ago

    You wouldn’t be scared if you were innocent. Just sayin’.

  • @enbyecho
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    02 months ago

    Do they think we are stupid?

    Oh wait… never mind.