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by s1artibartfast 558 days ago
You can say that you are murdering people by posting on HN instead of working more and donating the money to charity.

>At what point is defending their murdering of people an acceptable approach? :)

We have laws that define where your responsibility starts and ends. For a random citizen, you have 0 obligation to help someone pay their healthcare bills.

For a health insurance company, they have a legal obligation to spend 85% of revenue on member healthcare, with all expenses and profit coming from the remaining 15%. This is codified by the ACA 85/15% law passed under Obama. United meets this obligation.