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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We gotta get him out of the first charges first

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Adt March, i went into Diabetic ketoacidosis and came very close to doing because my insurance company decided, when I was trying to refill my insulin, that I was not insulin-dependant. Then they said I was, but they'd only cover a diff3rent type of insukin. Then I wasn't insulin-dependant again. This went on for weeks while I rationed my insulin to try to survive.

I just went a weekend without my blood sugar sensor implant because the same rucking insurance demanded on a preauthorizarion when I tried to refill it. They tried to make it sound like my fault for not knowing they required a preauth. It's finally ready for pickup today.

Luigi is my personal hero. These motherfuckers won't stop killing people until they're afraid for their lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

As a fellow T1D. Please, please utilize your endocrinologists free samples, your local JDRF, or order insulin from Canada. I’ve been in similar situations and it’s awful, but in the US, we unfortunately are at the mercy of an inhumane system. You should hoard supplies like no tomorrow, because you never know when you or friends might need help. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Saw the price increase and had a heart attack. 😞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sounds like a pre-existing condition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

And once trump gets rid of the ACA, we'll be back to worrying about having pre-existing conditions covered again employer's love having their employees locked in to working for them if they want their health issues treated.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We literally don't have to a system that does this to other humans. Luigi responded with the same violence they dish out daily.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Luigi responded with more kindness in his violence than healthcare CEOs do when they condemn innocent people to unnecessary violence, maiming and death, at least Luigi bothered to learn the face and name of the person he murdered and bore witness to the horror of the violence himself.

The healthcare CEO yawns and does another line of coke off his desk to wake up after browsing through yet another spreadsheet of all the people they are going to cut coverage for and thus likely cause life-ending circumstances to precipitate for.

One act of in-person violence to end the life of someone who decides to take a healthcare CEO job like this and can still go home and sleep at night... is woefully unable to speak to the size of the calamity unfolding here, and that is probably my best argument to someone out there not to do a Luigi. It will probably feel existentially underwhelming compared to the immense mountain of death and pain those mass murderers caused.

Make them pay in ways that will not end mercifully quickly, don't count on hell doing the job.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We need laws to LEGALLY hold these people accountable. Criminally.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

No you just need to eliminate the profit incentives. Or better yet, tie it to the well-being of the people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Today on this episode of Lemmy, "The Gang Fixes Capitalism"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Most of the civilized world already fixed this. In Germany, all the non-private health insurances are non-profit. They also can't deny covering you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yee, absolutely, but these people still belong in jail too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The system is to blaim there no benefit in punishing the people you want to force change upon, they will just resist more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

tie it to the well-being of the people

Interesting idea.

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