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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800
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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.

bliss