Re: [OT] Murder in New York

On 12/11/24 00:53, Charles Packer wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
 

On 12/10/24 13:04, quadibloc wrote:

A few days ago, I had read in the news that the CEO of a major health
insurer was gunned down. This was shocking; it seemed to mean that no
one was safe from crime.

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Actually it was a targeted assasination.
The killer had suffered a back injury and ended up
with lots of titanium screws holding his spine together.
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I do not know exactly the beef he had but the
business of Health Insurance did not help the excutive's case with Luigi
Mangione.
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[Snippage]
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Instead, I expect more than that: specifically, since when the
government > brought in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) which
allowed private health insurers a role, so that they wouldn't go out of
business as the result of it, it certainly wasn't expecting them not to
conscientiously provide the service it was their role to provide...
The fact that _one_ health insurer took measures to avoid paying on
valid health insurance claims should result in the immediate repeal of
the Affordable Care Act, with its replacement by a single-payer
national health care system.
That would send a very clear lesson to any other private businesses
that might in future offered the opportunity to offer services to the
public in partnership with the government. No fooling around that would
make the government look bad will be tolerated for one moment.
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John Savard

It may not seem pernitent but at the URL below is an
arguement in favor of AI Art in a long speculative fiction comic.
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What is AI Art
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<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/10/2291253/-What-is-AI-Art>
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The solution which is unlikely to happen with the incoming admiistration
is Basic Assured Income and Universal Healthcare.

 When that story hit the news I looked forward to the naming of
the suspect. Ah, the allegorical aspects. A very English name
murdered by a very Italian one. Hasn't there been some kind of
beef for a while between the two most ancient institutions of
Western civilization?
 

Now from what I hear Luigi had a beef because of a
painful pre-existing back condition not because of the old
opposition between Northern and Southern Europe.
Like Ghandi I believe that Western Civilization would
be a good idea but I fail to see where it has arrived. The
Germans of WW II were described as barbarians with modern
weapons and so are we in the USA today. What little civilization
we had has been absorbed by profit motives and deliberate
division of the citizens using myth and misinformation.
But that is just my opinion after 87 years of
enjoying the benefits of our high technology. I most
likely would not be alive now if not for medical advance
in the 1930s and 1940s. So here is penicillen(now allegic)
and then a few years later the fission bombs.
bliss
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