Did you read the plea deal or just the headline? Smirnov is literally being charged for evading taxes on the very bribery he (has been forced to) say never happened. It's wild how many people don't read the shit they send around nor use any common sense about how far a government will go to cover for their crimes.

Yes, the hypocrisy of thinking that campaign finance, which is the most milquetoast of "crimes" is forgivable and not literally having sex with a minor, selling access to a politician to a foreign government, and discarding a gun in a dumpster by a school. Yes, very hypocritical, you got me.

Either you aren't understanding what I am saying or you are purposefully misconstrueing what I am saying. Either way I don't have much more time for it.

I said poor people bring up PRICES not costs. Costs are the labor, materials, and market social factors. Prices are the social factors and future projections after costs are considered.

Poor people using government subsidized health care is absolutely a blame for prices as well as insurance schemes that drive them up. If there is no limiting factor(denials) prices never stop going up.

Insurance is a ponzi. So, bitcoin doesn't fix that. How you make healthcare better is just letting the market find prices.

I also am not advocating for doctors to give their services away, I was just asking why blame the third party payer for the resultant death from disease when even with all the money in the world, you'd still need a doctor to administer the cure. That was my point.

I am an anarchist so I don't believe in regulations outside of a business' own rules. I also don't advocate for the equivocation between literal murder and not paying for a service post hoc. BTW no one in the US doesn't get "life saving care" if you have cancer and your heart fails, paramedics will try to save your life. They won't treat an incurable disease with a therapy because that's not life saving, it's longevity maximizing. Everyone dies. They always perform CPR on the unconscious to at least do something but everyone just wants to get upset about the inevitable.

Oh man what was his crime? Must have been something crazy like selling access to the vice President or having sex with underage girls or something... Or giving slightly too much money to a local political candidate, yeah that is worth 5 years...

The regulations exist and this happens, and you think "there just weren't enough"

The doctor can treat you but chose not to because he wouldn't be paid, that is the choice, not the doctor paying for your treatment.

If boulder removal costs $100,000 and I've only paid $200 over the lifetime of my policy what sane individual would just give me $99,800? (Obviously don't strawman the argument with different figures, point being most people try to extract more money from recouped policy expenses than they put in)

I think insurance is a scam, for sure(because how could it not be, it's literally a pyramid scheme). The government FORCING YOU to have insurance and using taxes and money printing to pay for the poor's healthcare is what misaligns the incentives and drives up prices due to perverse incentives.

Above all, not doing something, and actively murdering someone is the literal essence of the Trolly problem. Which by the way, tells you whether you are a utilitarian murderer or a deontological ethicist.

Gross. How about the doctor not giving the treatment over money? How about the government regulation disallowing better health insurance coverage(because of distorted incentives)? How about the fact that a disease is what's killing you and someone not helping you is not the culprit? If a boulder falls on me and a guy doesn't help me lift it off before I am crushed, did he murder me? No, and it's not even close to murder. You people sound like trolley problem lever pullers.