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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s not death panels, it’s the market telling you to die

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yay freedom!

Keep an eye on RFK Jr. though. He seems like the death-panel eugenicist type.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He’s already appointed his first eugenicist. David Geier is who RFK is having conduct the ‘study’ on Autism. He and his father previously experimented on autistic children in his basement by giving them Lupron injections, which cause chemical castration. He was prosecuted in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, and his father had his medical license revoked in the process.

RFK said he was going to identify and eliminate the cause of autism. The cause of autism is DNA.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought this was hyperbole, but holy shit, David Geier is a horrible person. His dad was equally a piece of shit.

https://www.the74million.org/article/head-of-new-rfk-jr-vaccine-study-practiced-unlicensed-medicine-on-autistic-kids/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Geier

Further proof that the US is never going to fully recover from this insanity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. At least Dr. Hans Asperger was reluctant to work on “autistic psychopaths” at the request of the Nazis. This was already a personal mission for Geier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

RFK JR is busy swimming a sewage laden lake/river as of recently.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For-profit Health Insurance companies are death panels, always have been.

Profit Uber Alles.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They killed my mom. I won't forgive them for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Some bureaucrats will decide what to cut. It is those offices and committees -- probably both public and private -- that are the death panels.