So when courts and politicians allow death to become money, *what did you think would happen?*

"But you can't just kill people!"

Yet that's exactly what Brian Thompson and UHC and every for-profit healthcare provider are allowed to do every day, and they do it for no other motive than becoming unsustainably wealthy.

That is an abomination.

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Daily, #BrianThompson as CEO of #UnitedHealthcare decided who lived and who died.

He might not have known their names or the individual cases, but that was his domain: reducing human lives to profit margins, and he was legally encouraged and celebrated for doing so.

That is a morally abhorrent system, and more than that it is a morally abhorrent system that is embraced with open hypocrisy to silence people who cry out for intervention by courts and politicians.

Our political system and our justice system demonstrably will not save us from being killed for profit, because that is the system working as it's designed to do.

If you're poor and die from insufficient healthcare coverage, it's more or less an expected outcome.

Again, social contract says what?

If you insist long enough that everything is fine and working as intended, and America is good, and we value life above money like Jesus said to do, then make someone's healthcare a question of putting millions of dollars into the pockets of the few...

The fuck did you THINK would happen?

UHC's self-serving end-run around the 80/20 rule is morally bankrupt and blatantly defies the spirit of the law no matter how you look at it.

But they have been so far allowed to continue the practice, because I suppose it's "technically" legal.

That's where strain on the social contract shows.

Instead, UHC devised an absolute monstrosity to get around the 80/20 rule: they bought healthcare providers so they could plow that 80% of income right back into their own pockets in enough of a roundabout fashion to exhaust and frustrate any attempts to stymie them.

And it worked.

In America we have something called the 80/20 rule, more or less stipulating that for-profit healthcare has to spend 80% of income on providing care to people.

It was put into place in the naive hope it would cause MegaCompanies to actually do the job other countries wisely decided to privatize.

You can try to wiggle around this truth & hand wave it as much as you like, but it remains a truth: we let companies kill innocent people because it's profitable for them to do so, & then we try to pretend that's not what happens.

UHC is an *amazing* example of this.

Every single day in America, for-profit healthcare companies decide who lives & who dies. They don't do this based on morality. They don't do this to preserve limited resources.

They visibly & blatantly do this in the service of profit, which goes exclusively to an executive class.

We in America have publicly been fed the political fiction that human life is sacrosanct, you can't put a dollar value on a life and that you must rely on the justice system to uphold this fundamental tenet of our societal fabric.

And the strain of that lie is too much to bear.

Says Nash:

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment:

The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it.

But it's more than that.