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by tptacek 564 days ago
By that logic, every health system in the entire world is murdering people constantly. Meanwhile: I'm talking about a guy walking up to an executive and shooting him in the chest.
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> By that logic, every health system in the entire world is murdering people constantly.

Not at all. The US "health care" system has the extremely bad reputation it has for a reason.

This guy seems to (for all we know) have only killed a single person (so far).

The person he shot has likely killed far more. I'm not sure why you're ok with that, or am I misunderstanding?

That's an appeal to popular culture, but every health system makes decisions that deprive some people of necessary care. Resources are finite.
The US "Health Care" system seems to be taking the piss though:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/15/unitedhealthcare_ai_m...