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I keep asking in the US when we are going to have had enough of this entire health-care fiasco. Nobody is happy with it, the people who are victimized by compa

I keep asking in the US when we are going to have had enough of this entire health-care fiasco. Nobody is happy with it, the people who are victimized by companies like Sutter aren't happy and I guess most folks that work at the Sutters of the country aren't happy either. They are just going through the motions in quite desperation because house payments but it sucks and what they are doing sucks and they know it. It's kind of like the Soviet Union right before the fall. People knew there were deep structural problems, the plebs, the party officials, they had to have known. But for the time being they just kept going through the motions until one day the the farce just got too onerous to pretend anymore. That day is about here I think. Or rather hope. The entire setup between government, insurance and corps like Sutter is very truly nuts and isn't serving the needs it was designed for. I don't think that's a fringe belief either but a growing understanding.

SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Also, healthcare isn't the only industry with that type of problem. That makes the issue more resonant, because the deep corruption of the legal system and routine criminality of corporations cuts across pretty much every facet of life. Intentional criminality by corporations should be treated exactly like intentional criminality by gangs, with the leaders rounded up and served sentences according to the scale they operated on. Anything in excess of a billion dollars of criminal activity should be a life sentence. I somehow think compliance would be much better if executives were held responsible for it. But... That's how corruption works -- they're not.
- narrator 9y ago
  Meanwhile, in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/09/chinese-billionaire-executed-for-mafia-style-gang.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/09/chinese-billionaire-executed...

SomeStupidPoint 9y ago

Also, healthcare isn't the only industry with that type of problem. That makes the issue more resonant, because the deep corruption of the legal system and routine criminality of corporations cuts across pretty much every facet of life. Intentional criminality by corporations should be treated exactly like intentional criminality by gangs, with the leaders rounded up and served sentences according to the scale they operated on. Anything in excess of a billion dollars of criminal activity should be a life sentence. I somehow think compliance would be much better if executives were held responsible for it. But... That's how corruption works -- they're not.

narrator 9y ago
Meanwhile, in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/09/chinese-billionaire-executed-for-mafia-style-gang.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/09/chinese-billionaire-executed...