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He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror

He who kills one person with gun is an assassin; he who kills thousands with systemic rejecting claims to health care is a CEO

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in reply to Sean

Scale doesn’t change the ethics of an act—just how society chooses to justify it.

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in reply to Richard Rawson

@richardrawson Yeah, I think the problem here is you could run the most ethical healthcare company possible and there will always going to be a claim that gets denied and could spurn revenge like this. Healthcare workers shouldn't work in fear of retaliation.
in reply to Chris​‌​‬ Hayes‌​​​

@chris_hayes True, Chris. Healthcare workers shouldn’t fear retaliation, but we also need to challenge the for-profit model that puts profits over patient care. No matter the intentions, we must reform these systems to protect both those delivering care and the patients who depend on it.

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in reply to Richard Rawson

@richardrawson @chris_hayes executive of a firm that's a middleman-financier of a for-profit health care system isn't the same as a health care worker go provides medical care/treatment. The equivalency of the pirate plundering with a single ship and an admiral plundering with a fleet of ships is apt; blundering or killing is morally reprehensible, but doing it at scale is for some reason excused by polite society and those who are decision makers for the masses.
in reply to Richard Rawson

@richardrawson that's the point of the quote, the CEO's actions as a CEO has a death toll as does the assain, both are morally reprehensible yet only the assassin will have a manhunt while Cigna, Blue Cross, et al will continue to lead enterprises that are design to keep health care scarce killing a non-zero number of people.