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To be fair, dead and dying people are pretty bad at paying bills. Even assuming staggering, unrealistic levels of corruption in all parts of healthcare, someone in the chain ought to be financially motivated to see the patient recover.


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Wow, this looks exactly like a sign of a mental illness and/or a bad LLM.


Or it looks like someone suffering from the effects of healthcare treatment of loved relatives, looking for connections and a narrative that fits what happened to a tragic event. Within that cynical diatribe lies a narrative that resonates with some.

That narrative can be boiled down to: Profit in patient treatments produces perverse effects.

It's an alignment problem, where profit aligns to treatment over cures (a metaphor is the overreach of SaaS solutions when more static software could do).


In other news: hunger is caused by farmers.


supply chains logistics, capitalistic urges to throw out food instead of giving it away, zoning and HOA's preventing home gardens, coordinated rental hikes, none of those things are aligned with feeding people but instead aligned to bilk money from peoples' hunger (or shelter in the case of renting).

The farmer is relatively aligned financially with feeding people by comparison: they are paid money to grow food...

I don't understand your point or comparison.




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