It’s harder than you thought: mortalities in facilities after acquisition by private equity firms actually decrease, because they implement the practice of shunting deadbeats and lost causes to cheaper, lower-quality St Elsewhere facilities.
Changes in Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated With Private Equity Acquisition
CEO gets shot: Hand-wringing about the state of the country and the inexcusability of political violence
Three killed at an elementary school: Oh well, just a fact of life
New York wants to establish a special 911 just for CEOs.
That will cool the anger of the underclasses for sure.
I have spent a lot of time among CEOs and C-suite executives. I cannot count the number of times they have blithely made decisions that increase their bonuses and stock awards while heaping misery on thousands, and not even enriching the stockholders in the long run.
Maybe the two executives who ended up in prison got what was coming to them, but a complete disregard for impacts to humans that they refer to as “family” is pretty sickening.
That’s the trick of depraved indifference. It’s not intentionally evil, they just don’t care about the results of their profit maximizing choices, as long as the profits are delivered.
Some executive made the decision that their plan was going to deny coverage for anesthesia if a surgery went longer than a pre-defined limit. Besides generate money, what kind of effect is this going to have? All I can see is suffering for the one person in the whole situation that is hurting and unconscious when the excess time was used.
People didnt think that the kids deserved it as they were part of an evil organization. That is why the CEO is such big news.
Nor lionized their murderer.
I state the rest in spoiler as our mod has declared it too gun control adjacent. CEOs killed as political violence is unusual and thus big news. School shootings a bit less rare but still of note. Kids killed in gang crossfire or by dad dropping his gun commonplace and not news.
Ironically, Trump, of all people, is now proposing getting rid of pharmaceutical middlemen.
Kathy Hochul is showing us who she really works for.
An interesting Substack about the talking points and reactions of UNC to the death of their CEO. I’m sure the poor employees are getting a lot of scary abuse that they don’t deserve at all.
Perhaps the “Going Postal” quote is appropriate:
“I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People,” said the golem calmly.
“I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!”
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs.
They are taxpayers and voters. And targets. So why not?
Because she wouldn’t do it for anyone else.
So does she ever meet with people she isn’t expecting a large cash “donation” from?
The public safety officials first on that list are a big donor group? Wow. Who knew?
United is now claiming that it owns Luigi Mangione’s likeness.
It’s the usual practice. Do things in bad faith, depend on the legal system being unavailable to the little guy. Profit!
ONE design, by no means all likenesses or photos-
But one pro-Mangione design isn’t available on the internet anymore because UnitedHealth Group submitted a copyright complaint against it under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The painting has been removed from Teepublic, which allows artists to sell their own designs on merchandise like t-shirts and sweatshirts. But it’s not clear how UnitedHealth could claim they have rights to something that doesn’t involve any of its intellectual property.