Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:31:53 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <60238c75-803a-cfa7-def2-a9ac4af57275@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:31:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9702989516856e699f60d3df2f78980a"; logging-data="3696987"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kNuwZ2r3wB2JaWC27qqNIMJo8oKbu0d0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hAm6cr17o/w48w6b3gAZBCgZeeA= Bytes: 3617 On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:37:24 +0100, D wrote: > > >On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Paul S Person wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:04:55 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024, Paul S Person wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:42 +0000, quadibloc >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> A few days ago, I had read in the news that the CEO of a major = health >>>>> insurer was gunned down. This was shocking; it seemed to mean that = no >>>>> one >>>>> was safe from crime. >>>>> Then I came across the following information on a web site: that = the >>>>> health care insurer of which he was the CEO had used an AI system = to >>>>> process claims; this system rejected 90% of all claims, including = many >>>>> valid ones. >>>>> Maybe this site is a leftist one, and this claim is not true, I = don't >>>>> know for sure. But if it is true, my sympathy for this homicide = victim >>>>> basically evaporated. After all, if someone's health insurer = doesn't >>>>> pay out on valid claims... that person might not get health care. = That >>>>> kills people. But the legal system wasn't in the process of = prosecuting >>>>> him as aggressively as any other murderer. >>>> >>>> I saw the claim; I have no idea how true it is. >>>> >>>> You must keep in mind that the USA does not have a "medical system". >>>> It has a Medical Industry composed of various competing business >>>> enterprises. >>>> >>>> And the purpose of a business enterprise is to /make money/, not to >>>> /pay claims/. >>>> >>>> And Donald Trump is the Poster Child for Rich White Male Special >>>> Treatment by the Judicial System. >>>> >>> >>> "Orange man bad" syndrome. The US has the worst parts of private = health >>> care coupled with the worst parts of public health care. It is a very= good >>> example of taking the worst parts of both and combining them into an >>> unholy mix. >> >> I said nothing about "orange man". I just stated the obvious >> conclusion of his recent court cases. > >This is correct. But note that I did not claim you said orange man. I = say=20 >that you exhibits symptoms of orange man bad syndrome, or what is also=20 >called Trump derangement syndrome. Only by MAGA. Sane persons regard /MAGA/ as suffering from TDS. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"