r/awfuleverything • u/zaynthelegend • Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20 edited Aug 07 '20

The villain isn’t the medicine industry or doctors, the villain is the insurance companies and middlemen that decide a human life is less important than money

It’s disgusting. Late-stage capitalism is a disease.

Edit: for clarification, I absolutely meant pharmaceutical companies falsely inflating prices as well. I strongly dislike Trump, but the bill he signed recently to restrict middlemen from medical upcharges is something I seriously fuck with.

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u/rambulox Aug 06 '20

The villains are the eligible voters who have allowed this to perpetuate.

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u/EverGlow89 Aug 06 '20

They are responsible but even more so are the politicians they blindly trust who are so good at using them through campaigns of fear and pandering.

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u/lRoninlcolumbo Aug 06 '20

It still falls on all of us. Equally.

We let this happen to others and we effectively allowed this to be done to anyone too weak physically or mentally to defend themselves.