Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive”

Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Obviously, consumers want this or they would switch to a competitor. Free market will take care of this if it’s really a problem. ~/s~

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• arrow74@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We need a corporate death penalty. If your company murders people it should be dismantled and sold off.

  I’d love it if the senior executives also faced charges, but I’d compromise

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same with regulations being rolled back. I would love to see a 10 billion dollar price tag be marked for every life lost do to a practice a company was required to perform, then was allowed to stop because an administration rolls back regulations. Just because a regulation was rolled back doesn’t mean there wasn’t a known threat to someone’s life. Executives should all receive pre-meditated murder convictions, and the fines be paid directly to the family’s with no ability to declare bankruptcy to default on it. If a new company is started by any of the people involved the unpaid costs should transfer indefinitely ensuring they cannot own anything until they pay off the 10 billion.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How about we gaol the company and dismantle the execs

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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There you go

    You can make money but don’t screw people, nobody is above the law

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because people were afraid to have the government determined when it is financially infeasible to keep someone alive so they let the free market do it instead.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ROI

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• Zenith@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I promise you this is standard practice, which is why it’s allowed

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Capitalism be like that

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