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The thing is their evil is more insidious. Sure they aren't blowing people up, but the affect of withholding medical care without monetary compensation has such a widespread impact its unfathomable.

I'd honestly bet the pharmaceutical industry (includes the insurance companies) are responsible for more deaths than the MIC, easily.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31668-4/fulltext

Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, this is contingent on the provision of good-quality health care. We estimate the excess mortality for conditions targeted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are amenable to health care and the portion of this excess mortality due to poor-quality care in 137 LMICs, in which excess mortality refers to deaths that could have been averted in settings with strong health systems.

15.6 million excess deaths from 61 conditions occurred in LMICs in 2016. After excluding deaths that could be prevented through public health measures, 8.6 million excess deaths were amenable to health care of which 5.0 million were estimated to be due to receipt of poor-quality care and 3.6 million were due to non-utilisation of health care. Poor quality of health care was a major driver of excess mortality across conditions, from cardiovascular disease and injuries to neonatal and communicable disorders.

Universal health coverage for SDG conditions could avert 8·6 million deaths per year but only if expansion of service coverage is accompanied by investments into high-quality health systems.

8.6 million a year

This is the number of lives that could be saved worldwide if distribution of high-quality medical care (insulin, cancer screenings, blood pressure maintenance, etc) was done fairly and with the preservation of human lives as the primary goal.