• Blade9732@lemmy.world
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    You guard against unnecessary or dangerous care? Fuck you. A patient’s doctor is who determines the care, subject to his license, the state board and the justice system. If you truly need to double check a doctor’s decision, Only an impartial board of doctors, with no financial interest and subject to their liability, should override the doctors decision.

  • The Bard in GreenOPA
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    Witty, clearly reading from a script and dressed casually, defended his industry against accusations it refuses people vital coverage saying “we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or unnecessary care.”

    Witty, a British former pharma executive who is known as Sir Andrew Witty in the UK after being given a knighthood by the late Queen Elizabeth, is facing a Department of Justice probe into insider trading allegations.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    Given recent CEO news, he should probably be more concerned with a different kind of “Blowback”… Him putting out something like this just adds fuel to the fire.

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    I’m confused by your use of the word “earned”. I don’t think it fits in this context.

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      That guy is either going to get arrested, die in a standoff, or join DB Cooper on a beach in Tahiti. Whatever happens, he wont be assassinating any more people. These guys need to be worried about the copycats.

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        Yeah, he’s done his part. Now he just needs to get away with it to show others it’s possible