Big Business doing everything they can to bury the story.
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I don’t understand. It’s on every news site:
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The story isn’t McDonalds, it’s the comments being deleted.
Elites don’t want to hear any more from people upset with the for-profit health insurance system.
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Seems more like Google has a policy against people “ratings bombing” a business for reasons altogether unrelated to that business. There’s a near-infinite number of places where people that are upset with the health insurance system can complain - ones that are far more likely to actually get read by “elites” than the comments in the review section of an Altoona McDonalds.
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There you go again, trying to be rational during irrational times. You must be one of those darn Elites.
Ironically, we educated “elites” from good schools generally have access to good health care yet still typically vote for politicians who want to change that system to single payer.
The folks who are screwed by the current health care system seem to mostly vote for politicians who want to maintain the status quo. Maybe I am just getting old and cynical (certainly old), but it is getting increasingly more difficult to feel sympathetic.
If the non-stock owning working class want to vote for people who will do stuff like lower the capital gains tax so we “elites” can make more money from our Tesla investment, who am I to argue?
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Yep. I’m just looking at the arithmetic.Medicare operates with a 1.2% admin expense. For-profit health insurers operate with a 15% to 20% skim rate, plus what they can “steal” from customers through their captive PBMs with price gouging on generic drugs.
What’s the limit? Are we going to let it get to a 50% skim to insurers and private equity operators and maybe a 10-year difference in life expectancy between the US and other large industrialized countries?
Elites better start putting a sedative in the drinking water.
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Sure, but some of them are funny. For instance there was the one about “rats” at that McDonald’s. Now that’s weapons grade punnery, deserving of a place on the web. Another noted the McDonald’s was noted for slow service, using the slogan “Deny, defend, diarrhea”, and yet another said “the place is too noisy, Employees talk too much.”
I mean, if you can’t have a little fun with murder, what is this world coming to?
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How much of this is anti- snitch reaction?
In some communities co-operating with police is frowned on.
I think most of us salute the people who recognized the shooter and called police. But not everyone agrees.
You don’t get it. Big Business does not have control.
If they did we would not be facing TFG in office and the deflation that will ensue.
TLG, the last guy, had an industrial policy still in place. Pay went up and the national wealth could improve a lot. But explaining a factory buildout to the ignorant won’t work. TLG is gone now. Big Business needed him. Or her.
If the factory buildout with government support was suspicious to the news media just because, you’d be posting horror stories about Big Business in control.
It is an anti-pain reaction. It is a defacto murder reaction. It is a grief reaction.
It is poor so lives do not matter reaction.
Supply-side economics has been a vicious attack against the American public.
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CEO and chairman of UnitedHealth Group Inc., William McGuire retired with a $1.2Bil package, and that was back in 2002 when you could buy a luxury mansion in California for $2 million. A $Billion$ dollar retirement package was unheard of back then, it was more than twice the Exxon CEO was awarded in his retirement package.
No one is arguing that there shouldn’t be room for profit in healthcare, but allowing private healthcare insurance companies to profit at twice the level of Exxon or Tesla depending on how well the operate denying patients’ provision of treatment is amoral. American healthcare system is the only modern system where you have to raise money with a Sunday spaghetti lunch fundraiser for a kid with leukemia to get treatment.
NB. Does not justify murder for any reason
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Companies have taken to suing people who post negative reviews about them.
#### The Empire Strikes Back
The first step was usually to hire a cyber-monitoring firm. These companies would trawl through websites to look for threats to a client’s reputation. Once they found a damaging website, the client’s law firm would send the site’s owner a cease-and-desist letter.
If the company took the gripe site owner to court, they would usually bring hundreds of pages of “evidence” claiming several legal violations in the hopes that one would stick. The three most common claims were libel, trademark violation, and cybersquatting. This technique of aggressive litigating deployed by companies is a textbook example of a SLAPP. A SLAPP is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and, as the name suggests, SLAPPs are designed to silence critics by forcing them to focus their time and money on legal defense.
Sure, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happened there.
Look, regardless of the discourse surrounding these events, it’s just kind of implausible that “big business” would care about whether people were complaining about UHC (or health care insurance generally) in the comments section for an Altoona McDonalds. The Altoona McDonalds probably cares, and Google might care since it’s their review site. But the idea that TPTB were behind a pushback on negative commentary in that particular place is kind of silly.
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