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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> On 12/10/24 13:04, 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.
> 
> 	Actually it was a targeted assasination.
> 	The killer had suffered a back injury and ended up
> with lots of titanium screws holding his spine together.
> 
> 	I do not know exactly the beef he had but the
> business of Health Insurance did not help the excutive's case with Luigi
> Mangione.
> 
> 
> [Snippage]
> 
>> Instead, I expect more than that: specifically, since when the
>> government > brought in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) which
>> allowed private health insurers a role, so that they wouldn't go out of
>> business as the result of it, it certainly wasn't expecting them not to
>> conscientiously provide the service it was their role to provide...
>> The fact that _one_ health insurer took measures to avoid paying on
>> valid health insurance claims should result in the immediate repeal of
>> the Affordable Care Act, with its replacement by a single-payer
>> national health care system.
>> That would send a very clear lesson to any other private businesses
>> that might in future offered the opportunity to offer services to the
>> public in partnership with the government. No fooling around that would
>> make the government look bad will be tolerated for one moment.
>> 
>> John Savard
> 	
> 	It may not seem pernitent but at the URL below is an
> arguement in favor of AI Art in a long speculative fiction comic.
> 
> What is AI Art
> 
> <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/10/2291253/-What-is-AI-Art>
> 
> The solution which is unlikely to happen with the incoming admiistration
> is Basic Assured Income and Universal Healthcare.

When that story hit the news I looked forward to the naming of
the suspect. Ah, the allegorical aspects. A very English name
murdered by a very Italian one. Hasn't there been some kind of
beef for a while between the two most ancient institutions of
Western civilization?