You know, it's a little shocking to me

[conuly]

that nobody even seems interested in pretending to have any sympathy for that CEO and his family. (Except, apparently, right-wing media... and they seem to be very carefully not talking about what sort of business he was running and how he was running it.)

Edit: OMG. This was in my email today: Healthcare industry rethinks risk

Guys, I laughed until I cried. I know I shouldn't, but omg. I haven't even read the article yet. Forget what I've said before, apparently you can murder your way to a better world, at least in some select circumstances. (Well. You can if you're a gunman with a grudge. If you're a CEO of an insurance company you can kindly die of shame and spare the rest of us the trouble. Seriously would like to know how many people have died due to United Healthcare's policies.)

(Fuck, is this post getting me on some sort of watchlist? Don't murder people, yay gun control.)

Edit edit: Oh. I've read the article. The risk they're reassessing is whether they should post employee pictures on their websites. Booooooooo! Well, fuck them, murders all around. In some good news: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts anesthesia payment policy after backlash

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Comments

[solarbird]

I'm joking.

Mostly.

People - particularly the very wealthy - forget that government regulation was about as much to protect the wealthy from an outraged populace as it was to product consumers. While regulation can server and has served many purposes, one of them absolutely was anti-guillotine insurance.

That seems to have been forgot.

[librarygeek]

My maternal grandmother (1902-1995) was wealthy, called herself a Social Capitalist, and she used to say:

If the capitalists don't reinvest their profits in society, society will reinvest in the guillotine.

But she'd say it in French:

Si les capitalistes ne réinvestissent pas leurs profits dans la société, la société réinvestira dans la guillotine.

She thought that her factory workers should be as well off for working in her candy factory, as she was for their labor.

[foms]

Shuis d'ac.

"no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html)