It has to be a scurrilous lie. Seriously: nobody is that evil.
Although it is the sort of thing that we’ve come to expect because our unique-in-the-world, for-profit health insurance system leaves Americans financially vulnerable to sickness but offers huge profits to companies and CEOs in the system.
Some cynical people are suggesting that the reason Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is forcing teachers and children to sit for hours every day in classrooms with unmasked children is because he wants them all to get infected with Covid…to make money for a friend of his.
Seriously. There’s that theory out there, and it’s almost too evil to believe it could be true.
That DeSantis is intentionally trying to expose children, families and public-school teachers to a deadly disease simply because it’ll make a few million extra dollars for his largest donor, billionaire Ken Griffin, whose fund is one of the biggest stockholders in the company that makes the only available monoclonal antibody drug approved to treat Covid.
And, of course, it might also take out a few hundred unionized teachers, a
I used to pay about $30 for a civilian Dr.’s office visit until UPMC moved into our area. Then she closed her office and went to work for UPMC at their hospital. The next civilian Dr. I went to se charged me around $40 until his medical center was taken over by UPMC. Then my rate for a simple visit went up to $70 an this year it jumped up to $176 for a 15 minute visit. This take over of all our civilian Doctors and Clinics in our town by UPMC has destroyed poor folks who cannot afford those prices. It will result in deaths because many of us will just stop being able to go to Doctors. I am disgusted by this trend, and have written to UPMC and told them they are an illness-profit company not a health oriented company.