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Re:Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack by s73v3r_ on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:14PM (#17861934)
"But seriously, how can it possibly be the hospital's fault for doing exactly what the law and market incentives give them every reason to do? "

Because they're the ones actually doing it? Because they're run by adults who are fully capable of taking responsibility for their actions?

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Re:Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack by InitialLastName on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:47AM (#17868165)
The US (and others, but the US especially) has a long-standing practice of divesting corporations from the responsibility for their actions.

Worse, it's frequently the same people who argue that corporations are "people" arguing that corporations as a whole shouldn't be held responsible for their actions.

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Re:Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack by bmmayer1 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:17PM (#17879228)
A profit-making corporation exists to make a profit, which isn't illegal or immoral, so I fail to see what 'responsibility' they have other than continuing to do what their shareholders have literally given them money to do. Your problem is with the system, not with my grandma whose pension fund is invested in the hospital.
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