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Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero (archive.ph)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Imagine you can extract 100k in premiums over lifetime of the slave?

Then at year 20 he get cancer... Now if you pay, it will cost 1m aka his premium plus 9 other slaves who won't get cancer...

So why would you deny and book all that sweet cheese.

Nothing will change until parasites are removed from profit seeking positions and health care system is reformed to do this.

If more dead CEOs are needed, well we got people doing school shootings so hopefully they update targeting algos.

Boardrooms, not classrooms.

This fight will take a generation. Owners are already turning narratige. Left and right politics clowns are starting to derail discussions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

It's even worse than that, really.

They take those premiums, and what employers pay, and all the co-fees like when you pay a $30 copay on a drug that would cost $5 out of pocket (there are many! but you have to research) and invest them.

They make tons and tons of money on all the premiums. So it isn't even $100k in, $1mil out. It's 100k times a thousand in, and that $1mil is peanuts by comparison out.

Coupled with the fact that the $1mil in treatment is all fake cost values made up by the industry, when in reality, it probably would cost 1/10th that, to still turn an operational profit.

Not disagreeing with you either, just pointing out the monetary disparity is insanely worse.