Is rampant dislike of a Healthcare company classed as "bigotry" under this community's rules?

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It would be really really awful if we started flooding the tip hotlines with false/conflicting information
- You can flood it with names of people whose coverage was denied and call it motive. No false information needed.
- But that would be illegal!
  
  Just go to any health forum, find random usernames complaining about the company and call it as a tip. Not wrong, just dumb
  
  Yeah, but I’m in another country. If I called in tips from Canada that are false is that still illegal?
  
  No, really. Don't encourage people to commit stupid crimes that could send them to prison.
  I don't know the legality of feeding them useless, but true tips. This is your own risk.
  I absolutely do know the legality of lying to the FBI. Don't do this. Don't encourage people to do this.

"Let's open the closet to see how many people are celebrating this CEO getting shot, surely it can't be that many"
The closet in question:
- I always die like three seconds into that dungeon. I think there’s a spell I have to cast, or something I don’t have yet.
  
  Great use of a fireball/meteor swarm if you have it though.

"We're not responsible, the algorithm did it."
We're not responsible, the bullet did it.

How in God's name could that be "bigotry"
- An astonishing number of people can't distinguish "hatred based on target's intrinsic, immutable features" from "hatred based on target's opinions."
  
  Almost like there are a ton of bad-faith actors out there intentionally muddying the waters, isn't it?
- It can possibly be seen as bigotry against the patients that have received denial of coverage, but even that is a stretch.
- Some fuckwits would actually argue this I guarantee it.
  
  It's what they do.
- To be fair, the title might have been a tad more sarcastic than people might first think :)
- Because greedy scumbag CEOs are a minority class?

I hadn't heard that algorithmic health care decisions had been ruled illegal. If the company were doing that, couldn't they be considered a criminal enterprise?
- Presumably they stopped doing it in those states, or it's being appealed or something.
  Also possible they're just ignoring a court order, I suppose, but that seems unlikely
  
  They definitely made an exception for those states. The same thing happened with the announcement of that Blue Cross branch that was going to stop paying for anesthesia after an arbitrary time limit. They made an exception for Connecticut because they passed a law making it illegal.
- Only ruled illegal in a couple of states. And no, doing some illegal things doesn't make you (under the law) a criminal enterprise. That's a term used for operations whose fundamental business is crime, as opposed to just employing some illegal methods in the pursuit of legal activities.
  (This is not, remotely, an argument against much, much stronger penalties for companies that do illegal shit. If the fine is less than the profit then its just a cost of doing business).
  
  I knew it was a fantasy when I wrote it. I mean, obviously they pay more for lawyers than anything else.
  Just amazing how far they can stretch the law without it snapping back on them.
  
  ... for operations whose fundamental business is crime
  Oh, so, insurance companies are "criminal enterpriseS", plural. Gotcha.
- You can do deeply unethical things that are legal, such as delay deny defend. If only insurance stopped there it would be a great improvement. It's more likely they cross the line of what's legal as long as there's a chance of profit, even when penalties apply.
- ~~If the company were doing that,~~ couldn't they be considered a criminal enterprise?

Was the guy having an aneurysm while writing this?
- Perhaps due the lack of medical care.

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