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Actually, a pretty substantial minority of people think what Luigi did was right.
I bet more cops and bootlickers agree with you than not. My stance doesn't promote any authority at all, it's as simple as "pointless murder is wrong, doesn't help us".
EDIT: BTW that user is a fucking Tankie so it's extra ironic.
BCBS announced those changed before the assassination, they also stopped suing over medical debts the year prior, got any others?
Also, even if Luigi did somehow change that and not the countless other people including the governor going after them in court and on social media for the year prior, it would have saved people from potential debt, not death and not certain debt.
Ah wait hang on wrong link, 1 moment
Theres like a million articles talking about this story after UHC happened so it's taking a minute
GOT IT! https://www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-state/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-to-cap-anesthesia-coverage-after-certain-time-frame/
It was published Dec 4th talking about "last thursday" which would be Nov 28th!
Ah but the article was updated on the 6th...
You know what, I might have been misinformed about this, it's possible that the changes took place on Dec 5th, all the paperwork being written up, board meetings held, and filed less than 24 hours after the assassination, although I still doubt Luigi had as much to do with it as the Governor saying “Outrageous. I’m going to make sure New Yorkers are protected" just before that. And also those bad policy changes were announced in late 2023 or January 2024 but also never implemented due to criticism they received then as well.
BCBS’s own website dates that statement release as December 5th. So yeah, you’re making it up.
It goes through rounds of lawyers and actuaries long before an insurer changes coverage policies. It's absolute fantasy to think they threw this change together practically overnight.
I remember reading that it was coming before Luigi, but like the person you're replying to, I can't find it after the enshitification of web sesrching. It's buried behind a billion articles about Luigi.
There were complaints about it before, sure. Absolutely nothing from BCBS backing down before.
You’re dismissing it, despite all evidence to the contrary, because it doesn’t conform with your worldview. Maybe you’re not in a position of accusing anyone else of believing a fantasy version of events.
Yeah it took a few edits but I addressed that the article I found was updated on the 6th so I could possibly be wrong here.
Thanks for looking for references
I tried but I kind of feel like I've failed.
You admitted you were wrong. Most people here wouldn’t do that.
Is murder always wrong?
Like the trolley problem. How is indifference to other preventable deaths any better than killing one dude.
I mean, definitionally yes murder is always wrong. Killing isn't always wrong, but murder is when killing is unjustified so yeah, it's always wrong.
Maybe in law speak, but murder and kill are synonymous.
They are very similar, yes, but synonyms will often have subtly different definitions and connotations that mean you can't just replace one with the other wherever you want. Frankly, the difference between murder and killing is something I learned in high school English so I understand that the difference might have been off your radar before now, but this is the way the words are used most frequently, they're different words for a reason. Murder implies a moral or legal judgement on the action of killing, and killing is just dispassionately describing that something has died as a result of some other action. We all learn something new every day, it's OK not to know something.
Thanks.
I do like to learn new things, particularly when it comes to the English language. Although I am English I kinda suck at it and was always better at Math.
Wow, that's what you learn in English? No wonder you can't differentiate between the two...
I agree that cops have no place here. If They wanna lick boots and circlejerk eachother about how just their unjust system is they can go to reddit or Twitter.
Pretty off topic
That was not the sentiment I saw when it happened.
I saw incredibly low turnout for people against the action taken but I saw people on the left and right agreeing and with glee. Like everywhere.
Here is an Emerson Poll that found TOTAL 17% of people agree the killing was justified, and the highest demographic was young people with 41% (still not a majority). https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll
The poll was about a week after the killing.
Another small poll of college students found this:
Hmm that's interesting. My impression was that approval was much higher, anecdotal of course tho and not really representative.
This just in: most people will not admit to being +1 to killings on the record woth their actual name attached.
Never heard of Emerson but I would be asking who paid for that poll? Did they have a vested interest in playing down support? Has the poll been manipulated to get the best charts etc.
PragerU puts out lots of polls, but it doesn’t mean they’re valid.
Emerson College was established in Boston, Massachussets in 1880
Their "About Us"
They also have a MBFC rating of least biased LINK HERE
They haven't failed a fact check in 5 years, have very low traffic/popularity, and in the past rarely reported on politics.
Thanks for this. Very usual to know. Appreciate you linking sources too.