Goon Danton posted:

Chemist here. You don't need to hit up a chemistry lab to make thermite, you just need

Wait this is a setup isn't it

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"32 county Irish Republic"

V. Illych L. posted:

yes of course, which is why even ardent euroskeptics like denis skinner (RIP) campaigned for corbyn's position here, which really is remain with a fig leaf. i'm saying, left-wing opposition to the EU has been and is entirely justified - because it's entirely correct. the EU is not and cannot be anything but a neoliberal project, which is why the demise of neoliberalism is hitting the institution like a runaway train. the silver lining here is that, just maybe, the shock of a hard brexit can actually shake things up a bit - but i very much doubt it. i worry that the EU has to go before something better can replace it

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Sarkisyan was diagnosed with leukemia at age 14. She was covered under her father's health insurance, through his employer, Mercedez-Benz. The employer plan was administered by Cigna HealthCare. During her treatment for leukemia, her liver deteriorated.

Sarkisyan's doctors at the UCLA Medical Center told the family and Cigna that they recommended a liver transplant, and patients in similar circumstances have a six-month survival rate of 65%. Different doctors gave different estimates of the likelihood of success. Dr. John Roberts, chief of the transplant service at UC San Francisco (not the transplant center treating Sarkisyan), said that his center generally does not accept a patient without a 50% or greater five year survival rate. Dr. Goran Klintmalm, chief of the Baylor Regional Transplant Institute in Dallas, said this particular operation was a "very high-risk transplant," but that he would consider the same operation on a similar patient. On December 11, 2007, Cigna rejected the request for coverage for the liver transplant. Sarkisyan's doctors at UCLA, including the head of its transplant unit, wrote a letter to protest that the treatment proposed was neither experimental nor unproven and called on Cigna to urgently review its decision.

Cigna HealthCare refused to pay for treatment by citing policy provisions which do not cover services considered experimental, investigational and/or unproven to be safe and/or effective for the patient. Cigna said that it had no financial stake in the decision because it only administered the insurance plan and would not bear the cost of any operation. The cost of a liver transplant and one year of follow-up care was $450,000 in 2005. UCLA declined two livers while waiting for insurance approval from Cigna. Ms. Sarkisyan's family was also informed that they could proceed with the transplant if they could make a down-payment of $75,000.

Among the groups who publicly spoke out against Cigna's decision was the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

After public media attention grew, Cigna reversed its decision, but offered to pay for the transplant itself when it made the exception to the policy. Cigna's reversal of its policy, offering to pay for the transplant, came just hours before Sarkisyan's death.

BMX Ninja posted:

Lastgirl posted:

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1205256001714376704

Raccooon posted:

Lol y’all went out in high turnout to vote for Boris?!

Pomp posted:

If there's anything to be grateful for, it's all the BBC shills who are gonna get turbofucked by the same people they helped install

Vox Nihili posted:

See good news in these dark times

https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1205263236028911617

FAUXTON posted:

No but seriously this is what you voted for:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nataline_Sarkisyan?wprov=sfla1


best of luck

spacemang_spliff posted:

Centrists will win this time just like Gore, Kerry and Clinton

HerraS posted:

there is only one path to salvation

Samurai Sanders posted:

Yeah, when I went to bed everyone was talking about how they had to line up when they had never had to line up before and stuff like that, and this is the result?

IWW Online Branch posted:

This guy thinks Hillary is hard left.

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

The people voted for pain. Why, why did the people vote for pain?

Raccooon posted:

Lol y’all went out in high turnout to vote for Boris?!

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I guess the brits hate immigrants more than they like having functioning organs

Tom Guycot posted:

Have a smoke, a drink, a gently caress, and get in some chucks whenever you can. The world is only going to speed up its spin down the drain, you can't stop it or prevent it. As things get scarier for folks it won't spook them into socialism, but deeper into the arms of the fascist setups being erected at a record pace.


So have some fun, have some laughs before you punch out, because you'll only make yourself lose your mind if you take death and suffering and injustice to heart. Especially as the world moves forward.


Now is the time, for warp speed ironic nihilistic detachment!

Serf posted:

spoken like someone who is comfortable

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It'll be great when Tories still can't do Brexit

FAUXTON posted:

No but seriously this is what you voted for:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nataline_Sarkisyan?wprov=sfla1


best of luck

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Sarkisyan's family retained attorney Mark Geragos to sue Cigna, and requested that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley file murder charges against the insurer. The case was thrown out due to a Pilot Life Ins. Co. v. Dedeaux, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling shielding employer-paid healthcare plans from damages over their coverage decisions.

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1205264400514506752?s=19

Gripweed posted:

So what's the plan, everybody moving to communes in Scotland?

Ruzihm posted:

It's gonna own when british libs start blaming russia or some poo poo for this election

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I guess the brits hate immigrants more than they like having functioning organs