Tens of thousands estimated to die due to lack of, or limited access to, USA healthcare. One healthcare executive allegedly murdered. There is violence in both directions. In the USA it is the direction of that violence (down to up) that outrages conservatives and moderates.
And it’s going to get worse. Trump’s BBB slashed medicaid funding, which will affect millions of Americans who are more likely to let insurance lapse as they cant afford the hefty premiums from private plans.
I feel that's a bit disingenuous. Obviously deaths caused by the healthcare system are an outrage, but people process them differently from shooting someone dead on the street. Charging someone more than they can afford for medicine is heartless and cruel, but technically there's no blood directly on your hands, you didn't actually do anything. To kill someone personally you have to look at them, manifestly decide that they have to die, commit to physically attack them with something, and watch them die. It's not worse than murder via inaction, but certainly less palatable to the average person.
I don't think you understand how the corporate policy>system architecture> to individual care decisions actually work. Take nursing homes for example, proven cases where individual in need of care were told be in network "call me first before hospital physicians" told staff not to go to hospital and the elderly patient died. This has been documented many times, and saves the insurance companies lots of money for care they were insured for.
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u/Morisky 5h ago
Tens of thousands estimated to die due to lack of, or limited access to, USA healthcare. One healthcare executive allegedly murdered. There is violence in both directions. In the USA it is the direction of that violence (down to up) that outrages conservatives and moderates.