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[–] [email protected] 34 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Healthcare industry: “Wait, people had $300k just lying around? We gotta raise our prices!”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Health~~care~~ Insurance industry

Health Insurance =/= Healthcare

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Yep, my bad. What he said.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If Luigi signs every Dollar he can probably sell those on EBay and double or more the amount.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Why not just start LuigiCoin?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago

Crowdfunding fixing the problems in American healthcare AGAIN

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Love how this is actually uplifting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Orphan Crushing Machine

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you were poor and given an opportunity to become a doctor but get paid only as much as a housekeeper, would you do it?

Luigi should be freed because the subject in question decides to pay the doctor far more than a nurse but at the same time they take an even larger chunk for doing nothing at all. All this does is ensures the patient dies or becomes a working slave or dies slowly after becoming homeless.

If you make 200k you'll still find it hard to pay 10k a month or whatever these people want. If you make 50k and are sole provider you're so very much screwed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Even if you make 200k, paying 10k a month would be just about your entire take-home pay.

I do not make that much, but my insurance pays out something close to $300K a year for my normal monthly meds. Chronic conditions in the US ftw.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

at what point are all expenses covered and we're just paying for the lawyer's second yacht?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I dont think you know how the american legal system works

Someone (the state, unitedhealthcare, or just about anyone) will just sue him over and over again for the most ridiculous reasons until he has no money left or he commits suicide. There are no precautions for that scenario, so it will very likely happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Res judicata...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

... are you serious? And you think I don't know the legal system? What makes you think he's ever going to walk? And why are you talking about theoretical legal expenses decades down the line?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Not sure why you think this, they’d need a lawsuit with merits and standing. And if you do it enough there wrong way, the court can absolutely protect whoever it is you’re suing or they can counter sue.

Or even more realistically, Luigi can make his court appearances and ignore the lawsuits. At some point paying a lawyer to harass people with no money isn’t worth it. You can also waste their time as much as they waste yours and cost them money. Just get a cheap lawyer and tell them you’ll pay them to waste as much of their time as possible and it works. Your case may take 5-10 years to resolve that way.

Or you can just leave the country. Which sucks but it’s better than being harassed all the time and bankrupt.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

I want to hope the trial is covered relentlessly, but I know YouTube/Tiktok/Facebook are going to snub it in the algorithms. Reddit will mass ban it.

Not to speak of cable news.

Our best hope is Donald Trump opening his mouth about it, as he doesn’t seem to recognize the Streisand Effect. Then the algos will pick it up.

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