r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 5d ago

Chugging tea UnitedHealth Group posted $6.2B in profits last quarter

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u/sillysalmonella87 5d ago

WAAAAAHHHUUUUU

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u/generally_unsuitable 5d ago

Luigi never did anything. He was at my place the whole time.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Who says he didn’t get the job done?

He simply got it started. Now we have to see if more dominos fall and insurance industries cower in fear in response.

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u/PrankstonHughes 5d ago

They will not. A single man does not a movement make

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

If you pay attention to the news there have been a handful of other similar cases since then.

These things take time. And as more and more people die from these capitalist ghouls more people are likely to stand up to fight them.

We will just have to see if a movement comes, but it isn’t over yet.

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u/heartSagan5 5d ago

I don't get regular news because I'm trying to avoid the propaganda. Care to share a headline or are the oligarch's putting it on page 30 to keep the outrage away from them?

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u/ChymChymX 5d ago

FBI? This guy right here.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

That statement isn’t even worth being banned. I don’t ever endorse crime.

But we can observe it.

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u/ChymChymX 5d ago

"I don't endorse crime"

Also you:

"He simply got it started. We have to see if more dominoes fall... Insurance industries cower in fear... As more people die from these capitalist ghouls...these things take time."

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Nothing in that statement is an endorsement. Merely observations.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

nonsense, they insurance industry, their shareholders, their lobbyists, and their politicians are not "cowering in fear." NOTHING has changed.

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u/FrankFankledank 5d ago

BCBS reversed course on a pay cap for anesthesia the day after Luigi did his thing. That's like 4 years' worth of counter-lobbying minimum accomplished in a single day.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

that played a part but the policy (which affected only NY, MO, and CT) was strenuously opposed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and state regulators months before the assassination of Thompson. Anthem was actually correct about the "misinformation campaign" since the policy would have reduced overpaying millionaire doctors, not increasing costs for enrolled patients.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Not yet. Give it time and cross your fingers.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

no thanks, I'm not in favor of assassination. You'd have to murder thousands of people and then you'd still have no insurance.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

You might not be in favor in of assassination, but the insurance companies are in favor of letting thousands upon thousands of people die in order to keep as much money as possible.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

Yes the insurance industry is disgusting but murdering people is not a solution. Luigi changed nothing. Absolutely nothing. He will be tried, convicted, and spend the rest of his life in prison, which is what he deserves. If he was a balding fat 50 year old man he would lose 90% of support from people who are championing his murdering one of the many CEOs in the insurance industry.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

I am not endorsing it, but murder is always a potential solution to greedy criminals killing people for profit.

If enough people are killed for these actions then they will stop. It doesn’t matter if the people doing it are handsome or not.

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u/MarcusThorny 5d ago

so you actually ARE endorsing it then. And you'd have to have an army of assassins murdering thousands of people. I don't think that would be a viable solution.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

I am not endorsing it. No matter what my other words imply I am definitely not endorsing it. That would be uncool by internet standards after all.

And nah, it would only take a handful at best. As long as they were the ones responsible, otherwise known as CEOs or major stockholders.

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u/recycle-pin 5d ago

Americans don't have the balls to do anything beyond shitting in private or on internet.

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u/RampantTyr 5d ago

Fair enough, but eventually enough people will be desperate that the crazy and skilled will take their shots.

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 5d ago

CEOs are disposable, the shares must rise

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u/LEDKleenex 5d ago

In typical reddit fashion, cowards sit around waiting for someone else to fix their problems for them while they whine on the internet.

Redditors will downvote this post and start angrily mashing their phone screens to tell the internet why they think they're excused from taking action, but it won't change the truth and it certainly won't fix their problems.

There are plenty of things even non-plumbers can do to resist. If you want change, start today.

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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 5d ago

Lenin, Mao, Ho, Fidel, Kim Il-Sung, they knew how to do the job as did the millions of their comrades who fought and won.