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Health Insurance Leaders Pressured DOJ To Charge Luigi Mangione
(danboguslaw.substack.com)
the top three DOJ officials under Attorney General Merrick Garland have all represented massive healthcare companies during their respective stints in private practice before joining the DOJ.
Because of COURSE they did! 🤦🤬
Carlin is so relevant rn
He never hasn't been.
Always was but yeah, seems moreso now than ever before. Because it's gotten worse AND because we've gotten more aware of it.
The awareness is lovely to see.
Interestingly enough I don’t think we’d have arrived here without COVID. It broke the routine, slowed the inertia, pushed self reflection.
And it made the house of cards that is the healthcare system visible to all.
I agree completely.
It also disproved the "once the crisis is big enough, everyone will hold hands and work together for the common good" myth that pro-establishment people used to trot out to mollify critics of the status quo.
The people radicalized by a combination of the inequities of the status quo and the gaslighting of opportunistic far right politicians (who are of course themselves very much part of the establishment) didn't suddenly set their collective delusions of self-sufficiency and their scapegoating of vulnerable people aside to help themselves and other people get through the pandemic as safely as possible. They only got WORSE.
On a local level, we really do see humans band together to overcome crises. But not everyone, not all the time. And on a national level, stopping the rich motherfuckers is a struggle that goes back millenia.
Some people think that "progress will happen" as if it's inevitable that society improves over time. But a quick glance at history proves otherwise.
This also helps explain the Texas Lt. Governor's (?) plea to, "Let all the old people die. We need to get the economy moving again." Health Care Insurance Inc. doesn't want to pay money to treat people if we can convince everyone its cheaper to let them die.
People keep conflating health care providers with the insurance companies which are in the health care denial business. These are not at all the same.
Lisa Monaco, the Deputy U.S. Attorney General previously worked as a partner at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP. At O'Melveny & Myers, Monaco represented Humana–the fifth largest U.S. health insurance company–according to her financial disclosures. Notably, O'Melveny & Myers also successfully defended United Health in a suit brought by United health group insured patients earlier this year.
Health "insurance" company, not provider.
The number three at DOJ, Acting Associate AG Benjamin Mizer, also represented healthcare and pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis, among others firms.
While not an insurance company, Sanofi-Aventis (now Sanofi) was provably corrupt and predatory on multiple occasions in multiple countries and was/is VERY much part of the same problem as United Health and the rest of the health insurance leech industry.
Finally, #4 at DOJ, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prolegar, reported Lumos Pharma, Syneos Health, and Amgen, as former clients on her disclosure.
Syneos have been sued for firing people who take family leave that they're legally entitled to and Amgen pleaded guilty to guilty to improper marketing that put patients at risk
In conclusion: while you're technically right that only one of them worked for INSURANCE companies, they all worked for health sector companies that were and are part of the problem, so it's a distinction without importance in this case.
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You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn't the normal way of things??
Oh, look, they did a corruption
For the rich, that's an "oopsie đź¤"
For the poor, that's a paddlin'.
Privatization of the government working well
Drain the swamp so the water feature can be filled with leopards.
Merrick Garland showing he was always a Republican.
The state is just the armed wing of capitalism.
When are we going to pressure the DOJ to prosecute health insurance leaders for the deaths (just one example) caused by their actions?
The Department of what, now?
Corporate Justice. The C is silent.
Oh right, the Dept of Orporate Justie! Lmao
Bought and sold
No. Shit.
Kill them, too.
I've heard people suggest that school shooters stop butchering our kids, and instead throw their lives away doing something useful that will have them remembered as heroes.
Ju$tice
Who are these leaders? Names? Addresses?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya!
positively flabbergasted, dare I say
There was a school shooting on the same day Thompson was killed. Without looking it up, can anyone name a single victim?
I'm not saying I support murder, but I don't understand why I should care more about his life than those who are objectively more innocent.
We don’t care about his life either. It’s what he represents and how life goes on without him (possibly improved for people saved after execs have to fear for the policies they adapt).
I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
.... Well, not that shocked.
I mean, really, who didn't see this one? It was pretty blatant. The fact that we have confirmed reports of it is nice, but c'mon.
it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.
Of course they did, wouldn't expect anything else.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024
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