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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ (nypost.com)

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa whoa whoa. We can't just let people die until we've extracted their economic output, up to the point where the cost of the treatment exceeds expected remaining economic output.

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 41 minutes ago

Hear me out… we could connect their brains to computers and keep them in a state of permanent office-hours where they fill in Excel sheets and write reports.