Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance
Health insurance industry: we can make it worse
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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Also, not an insurance company. He worked for Pfizer.
Pfizer is a med company. They negotiate with insurance. They work together to fuck us over.
It's a pharmaceutical company. They're no saints, but it's disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.
Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?
"In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill."
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"conflict of interest" was old speak from the dark ages.
We are in the second Gilded Age
You're a pure soul... but you didn't say "God bless you" when I sneezed.
This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.
Surely she’ll do the right thing and recuse herself from the case.
She won't, and don't call her Shirley!
I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they're charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn't that make this a serious conflict of interest?
No. It's inexcusable. Even if he pooped on her lawn she should have no right to be legally judging him.
Can't help but be biased here. The facts fit too well. Remember, bias has to do with the perception of poor judgment. We don't need to gamble on it.
Doesn't seem like a conflict of interest /s
No such things. These are professional/s.
Second corroborating article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-judge-married-former-211332729.html
I’m going to nitpick here. The main reference for this Yahoo/daily Beast article is OP. That’s not corroborating.
Honestly the data in the article is the reference so yeah
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Once against proving we have a two tiered justice system.
Yikes. Incredibly messed up.
Definitely good reason to get them swapped out for a different judge but are they going to oversee the whole trial or just the pretrial?
Also, they were an executive at Pfizer, not an insurance firm.
Pfizer isn't exactly in the good graces of the public either.
For profit healthcare is the problem. It's not the doctors, or nurses, or phlebotomists, or pharmacists that are trying to save lives. It's the people who handle the money fucking around with people's lives so they can make more.
Right now it's the largest pharmaceutical company in the USA maybe on earth, so definitely can't be morally upright. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It's the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.
This motherfucker was chosen specifically because of his racist and homophobic bias. Endorsing him is endorsing his prejudices.
Go on, you pieces or shit. Defend this horrifying bastard. It just places you on the same disgusting level as him.
She.
Give them a break. They only saw the headline and the picture of a man before commenting.
I did. I saw that they hadn't read the article and simply corrected them.