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Are you saying that letting insurance companies track your driving data will get used to do things like fine drivers directly for law breaking? Never!

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No, I'm saying health insurance companies routinely deny American civilians life saving care because they'd make more money and routinely use similar software that also allowed 200 school age girls to be murdered. Recalling that a CEO was murdered and the person excused is being hailed as a hero over just this. Think people care about this a lot actually.

https://www.newsweek.com/united-healthcare-ceo-shooting-ai-l...

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/phy...

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/03/...

For better or worse, health care providers at least in the US are for profit businesses. There's been plenty of arguments made to change that, but as it stands we shouldn't be surprised when a for profit business decides what service they provide and to whom they provide it.

Likewise, we shouldn't be surprised when someone who puts profits over other's lives gets ventillated by one of those lives in downtown New York. And what do you know, nobody was.

What so you mean by ventilated here?

Forgive my ignorance, I just don't get the reference and don't want to assume its anything front he pandemic response to United Healthcare.

United Healthcare CEO was assassinated because they implemented policies that denied Americans healthcare due to algorithmic discrimination.

Are you saying said murder was justified and shouldn't be punish? Or even that it should be celebrated?

I mean the person in question had new air vents rapidly installed in their body.

Are you saying that's a good thing?

My post very unambiguously explains that is an unsurprising thing. It does not explicitly say it was a good thing, so no, "good" is not specifically what I am saying in that post.

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