Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for "insurance fairness" on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don't face the same kinds of coverage challenges.
  • Dessa [she/her]
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    4 hours ago

    Man, insurance these days'll cost you an arm and a leg!

  • Yukiko [she/her]
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    7 hours ago

    Should remove their limbs so they can see for themselves how necessary they are.

      • miz [any, any]
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        7 hours ago

        Washington was called by some of the indigenous "Town Destroyer"

    • miz [any, any]
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      9 hours ago

      cult of personality

      western framing whenever someone is extremely popular among the working class. Stalin, Mao, etc. but you will almost never hear bourgeois media talk about adulation around a western liberal democratic politician as a "cult of personality". that's for the thick-browed mud peoples

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 hours ago

        Talks about "cults of personality" among the scary unscrutable non-westerners becomes extra absurd when you live in a monarchy. You have this one family that everybody is expected to form a parasocial relationship with, they're always presented in a positive framing, their faces are on the money, stuff is named after them, TV shows are being made about how good they are, children put up plays about them being amazing in school. When they show up somewhere crowds gather to cheer them. If one of them were to fart in public, people would talk about what a brave fart it was and how it demonstrated their deep and real connection to the common folk.

        But if you tell people that they're doing the exact same thing they're accusing Koreans of doing they look at you as if it is the most absurd thing they've ever heard.

      • miz [any, any]
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        8 hours ago

        was trying to think about this more. I'm not sure but maybe "cult of personality" describes the cultural hegemony from 2020 to 2024 when the liberals pretended Biden didn't have dementia

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    10 hours ago

    A Nevada prison policy of “one eye is good enough” amounts to deliberate indifference to an inmate’s medical need for cataract surgery in violation of the Constitution, a federal appeals court held Thursday.

    https://trialinsider.com/2014/08/14/one-eye-is-not-good-enough-is-bad-prison-policy/

    They want to treat everyone, except their friends and families, like they are living in an unconstitutional prison.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    9 hours ago

    Perhaps these "providers" could "provide" their own limbs, if they're too cheap to construct a prosthetic. What about their legs? They don't need those...

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    Certainly not in a court of an archaic and for-profit justice system, but Luigi will be vindicated