america is so fucking based man

in any proper country that company at least gets forced to pay by the government then ordered to shut down forever due to wanton cruelty. all the employees get generous severance except whoever made that call. depending upon your view of carceral punishment there are a few ways to go with that guy.

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Sad truth: Nothing about this will change until the boomers are gone.

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Did they get it?

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Something about this insurer stinks. How long does it take to drop a drug from their coverage, usually? And did they know the twins would need this drug before the mother knew? If that’s the case, then her employer, who was also the insurance provider, had access to her healthcare records. They had access to all her information and likely paid her OB/GYN on the sly to tell them what was going on with the twins while in the womb.

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The cut coverage of the drug for everybody or just the mom? There’s no reason for the drug to cost this much. They do this on purpose so less lives are saved.

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on purpose

How do you know? Wouldn’t more people around mean more money for them?

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One person, or the few people that are born with this rare disease, are probably not likely to net them an average of more than a few hundred thousand over their lifetime, even assuming they make it to adulthood

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It’s a sarcasm

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There are already comments claiming this, thanks.

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One of the earliest uses of based is by 4chan users to describe things that were Nazi adjacent or fascist that celebrities and politicians would say and do. It was “based” because the idea is that they were doing the “right” thing even though it was unpopular often doing things like being ok with needless deaths because it also meant it pushed their fascist agenda. I think op is using it ironically in this case like those 4chan cretins use it.

Since then it’s been co-opted as the general Internet meme and that’s how most people know it now.

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I only know it as “I approve of this”, not “lol, I don’t approve of this, but I say I am to be hilarious”. This is the danger of adopting this Nazi Internetspeak to be funny.

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Yes but then when someone says <clearly horrible awful thing> is based, it’s blatantly sarcasm

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