... and so is damn near everyone in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
"And people wonder why we want these executives dead," Lorenz wrote, referencing Thompson’s death in a Bluesky post with a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield no longer covering anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
She later wrote on her Substack that it was "natural" to wish a similar fate on insurance honchos if you or a loved one had suffered or died after being denied coverage.
Oh, and the pearl-clutching!
In opposition to the taunts, social media channels were also flooded with voices questioning whether it was in good form to react this way to murder, leading to questions about whether a culture of respect for life was a universal value.
Robby Soave, a Reason senior editor, asked on X, "Why are they like this," in reference to the celebratory nature of comments surrounding Thompson's death.
You mean like paying hospitals bounties for procedures that we knew were worthless? Remdesivir, ventilators, and bonuses for ICU admission and death. There was no bonus paid if you got up out of the bed and walked out of the hospital under your own power after having shown up with Covid; the more-severe you got nailed the more money they made including a special bonus if you got a toe tag! You pay people for dead bodies you're going to get a lot of them -- and we did, about a million to be exact.
This was claimed to be "great" so you may go fuck yourself with a hot soldering iron if the loved ones of those who had someone whacked by this outrageous bullshit supported up and down the line by everyone from the Federal Government to insurance companies to hospital administrators to individual doctors finds out that someone is really pissed off about it the hard way when said person decides that while they'll almost-certainly get caught and pay for the homicide you're going to meet St. Peter first to plead your case in avoidance of eternity with the big dude in the Red Suit. My wager is that he steps on the pedal and sends you on down.
Why am I supposed to give a shit if anyone associated with an "industry" that got paid for a million deaths with the highest bonuses being for bodies and zero bonus if you survived their "treatment" gets whacked? I'm supposed to cry when someone who had a part in that gets murdered?
Of course the "psychological profession" wishes to try to find some "cope" for this while in point of fact financial gain at the cost of people's health and even their lives is what "the business" is about and has been for decades, and in addition deliberate refusal to prosecute felonies under 15 USC Chapter 1 and, in the case of Covid, deliberately putting sick people into nursing homes is part of the ugly reality behind all this that nobody wants to deal with. In other words its all about the money.
Making you sick or even dead, if it gets every single actor in this "industry" more money that is what they will ALL do. They all proved it -- virtually every hospital and nearly every physician -- during the pandemic.
Well, guess what -- we all have to deal with the financial rape that has come out of this; United Health's stock price has risen by twenty times since Obamacare was passed, other firms in the health "insurance" space are in the 10-20x stock price rise too and nobody has seen costs actually go down -- to the contrary, they have skyrocketed universally. No, having someone else pay is not "costs going down"; forced subsidization is theft at gunpoint and ought to get you the same result as holding up a liquor store.
In the meantime where do you think all the inflation came from? Yeah, this. Cutting people checks to sit on their ass and get stoned was the salve to keep you from recognizing that they were paying tens of thousands to the hospital for each person that showed up with a cough and the more you that person got screwed (whether through intentional acts or money-driven indifference) the more bonus money they made. The hospitals and every related industry feasted (yes, including individual doctors and nurses, especially "travel nurses") on this firehose of credit and you got fucked with wildly higher prices for everything, from car insurance to the grocery store. As I've pointed out before while you "got" a couple of thousand in said "stimulus" checks this deliberate financial rape with the collateral damage of a million dead bodies, endorsed and cheered on by every part of the government and medical industry cost the average household about $14,000 each and every year and here we are a couple of years after the "emergency" ended and you are still getting screwed for $14 large each and every year.
Never mind the FDA commissioner who in a recent hearing said that he knows the "food industry" has formulated a combination of sweet, carbohydrate and salt that is addictive, thereby intentionally causing overeating. Yet has the FDA done anything about this even though the first word (for "F) is food? Nope. Oh, and about those seed oils (see my previous column on that one.)
Thus cry me a fucking river until all this shit stops -- literally all of it from the big "packaged" food producers to drug peddling to places like the American Heart Association telling you to eat seed oils to the local doc pushing statins which have as a labeled and thus admitted adverse effect causing Type II diabetes (which makes them even more money and destroys your quality of life at the same time) while every single entity price-fixes and unlawfully discriminates on price predicated on "what insurance you have", an act which has been a felony for more than 100 years -- and those who have been doing all of this it report for their decade in federal prison and every single penny they and their family has along with every bit of corporate asset involved in same is forfeit.
It seems, from the commentary on various social media sites, that I'm wildly in the majority with this opinion too: Roughly 9 out of 10 responses to various threads, irrespective of the place including hard-left leaning news sites, are people either posting snarky "well I'd offer prayers but that requires pre-authorization" comments or those outright offering toasts or referring to the event as a "good start." Good; all bad behavior is deterred only by the realistic fear of force of some sort being used against the evil-doer. Nothing else ever works so spare me the pearl-clutching and, if you're in the camp of pearl-clutching idiots you are most-likely part of the group screwing Americans and profiting from it! Incidentally that definitely includes the dishonorable Mr. Fetterman.
I defer to due process of law and insist on people allowing that to take place only when due process actually occurs; when an entire section, comprising one dollar in five of our economy, is granted immunity from 100+ year old felony criminal law by deliberate refusal to prosecute, neither political party will stand and deliver on said prosecution and thus you can't vote your way out of it and the industry abuses that (and "lobbied" -- that is, bribed, politicians on all sides to keep it that way) to financially rape and even kill people all for profit then I do not give a single shit if the aggrieved friends and family of those slaughtered for profit exact their own justice whether it is aimed at the principals or their loved ones so the anguish is as great as was inflicted on the aggrieved. In fact I find such praiseworthy for the simple reason that its all we have left as a corrective force against this financial rape which has accumulated to the point that they'll actually kill you to make another buck and our government supports it to the point that the average grocery bill has doubled over the last four years.
Government can fix this instantly any time they'd like by indicting, prosecuting and imprisoning every single one of these fuckers as they should have been doing for the last three decades. Further, were they to do so both asset prices and grocery prices would collapse. I put forward a plan to do exactly that more than a decade ago.
Until they do?
I can generate plenty of piss to water the headstones of those who are on the losing end of this crap when people finally decide they've had enough and choose to run up the scoreboard. Pass me another pint please so I can properly recharge my hosing device.