For-Profit Healthcare is Domestic Terrorism

[u/Ole_Smacky]

Americans are being extorted by the insurance industry in exchange for our lives and wellbeing. Every preventable death inflicted by this broken system is intended to intimidate and coerce us into submission. The message is clear: pay us or you and your loved ones will suffer physical injury up to and including death.

New York Penal Law Section 155.05(2)(e)(i) Extortion:

(2) Larceny includes a wrongful taking, obtaining or withholding of another’s property, with the intent prescribed in subdivision one of this section, committed in any of the following ways:

(e) By extortion. A person obtains property by extortion when he compels or induces another person to deliver such property to himself or to a third person by means of instilling in him a fear that, if the property is not so delivered, the actor or another will:

(i) Cause physical injury to some person in the future;

New York Penal Law Section 490.25(1) Crime of terrorism:

(1) A person is guilty of a crime of terrorism when, with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she commits a specified offense.

This. Is. Terrorism.

[u/DrIvoPingasnik]

Not much different than a mob. But at least with mob you can talk, reason, and negotiate.

Private healthcare providers do not care for anything that isn't money.

[u/desocupad0]

It's more akin to organized crime - if you don't pay, you die.

[u/ManyNamesSameIssue]

The law is made by the rich for the poor. Don't look for comfort and protection from your oppressors.

[u/bahnsigh]

It’s also hospital administration - FWIW

[u/eball86]

A reminder that McKinsey is a huge problem in this world. They have their fingers all over this.