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If they had taken the money directly from the patients pockets, they would be in jail for between 7-20 years depending on the total amount they overcharged. Cancer drugs are crazy expensive in general so it could easily be a class 1 felony.
Oh but just have 'an algorithm' do the overcharging and suddenly it's just a wittle oopsie. Yeah we fucking stole money from vulnerable people grappling with, and trying to fight cancer. And yeah, those fraudulently inflated bills probably caused many people to suffer massive depression and/or forgo live saving treatment. But you have to understand, Brian for an extra free million for himself, and shareholders saw a 1% increase in short term valuation.
The supreme Court is the next big item after Trump faces the inevitable. Many of them fucking consider corporations legally the same as a person except for when it comes to any type of punishment or negative consequence.
These traitors are the antithesis of the American people and it's time for them to water the tree of freedom as penance.
The corporate personhood doctrine is 200 years old. It's nothing new. It's disgusting, it's dysfunctional, but it's as American as it gets.
The reason why corporate persons can't be punished is because they don't physically exist and therefore can't go to the slammer or fry on an electric chair. The only punishment you can apply to a corporate person is a fine, and that's a very poor punishment because the one thing corporations do exceedingly well is managing losses and profits, and a fine is nothing other than a negative entry in the ledger. If it's small enough and the crime drove profits up, the corporate person will automatically reoffend, simply by plain business logic. That's the nature of the beast.
As for the supreme court, if you think for a second this corrupt MAGA outfit will set about to tackle such an old and well-established business institution, I have a bridge to sell you.
"We've always done it that way" is not a great reason to keep doing something wrong, though.
If it doesn't breathe, eat, talk, and feel, it's not a person. Calling it one doesn't make it true.
To be clear this isn't aimed at you, I'm pretty sure you're not 200 years old and didn't come up with the original idea.
The legal notion of corporate "personhood" is in the very first words of US law:
Congress can choose to break this.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1