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Health Insurance Trolley

2 years ago by cm0002 to c/comicstrips

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rockerface 127 points 2 years ago

This one is more of a trolley solution

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tacosanonymous 41 points 2 years ago

It's certainly not a problem.

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mnemonicmonkeys 25 points 2 years ago

The only problem is if you don't change the track

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cm0002 29 points 2 years ago

It's a problem for CEOs and shareholders! Why won't you think of the poor CEOs and shareholders!

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rockerface 30 points 2 years ago

I was thinking about CEOs and shareholders earlier today, but then I had lunch and now I'm not hungry any more

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Late2TheParty 6 points 2 years ago

Ha! I'm totally stealing this from you!

I'm not gonna quote you, though, cuz I want my friends to think I'm not just funny-looking. 😁

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CidVicious 56 points 2 years ago

This is a little on the nose but I still laughed.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 11 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it's on more than the nose.

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sevan 40 points 2 years ago

"Funny" story - at my prior employer, my department would outsource a bit more labor overseas each year to reduce costs. Year after year we were able to deliver 5-10% cost reductions, mostly through outsourcing. When I started with the company, we were about 40% outsourced, when I left we were over 80%, but it took many years to get there.

Over the years, we could have returned vastly more money to shareholders if we had outsourced more quickly, but our department leadership understood that they have to show improvement every year, so its bad business to save all the money at once (even though the savings would increase profitability permanently).

In the last 2 years, many of those leaders have moved on to other roles, in part because they understood we were nearing the end of the road for that strategy. I would be very curious to see how the next 2-3 years goes for the new leaders, but I also had a good opportunity to leave before things get ugly.

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Rivalarrival 16 points 2 years ago

In the last 2 years, many of those leaders have moved on to other roles, in part because they understood we were nearing the end of the road for that strategy.

The next strategy is to save money by consolidating operations under one roof. Duh.

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Sphks 7 points 2 years ago

The next step when the company is unable to produce any value anymore, it's to become a patent troll.

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Rozz 32 points 2 years ago

It saves many people by switching

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gandalf_der_12te 20 points 2 years ago

in fact, it probably even saves many people if switching is a reasonable threat.

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KnightontheSun 7 points 2 years ago

Yes, I think the cartoonist missed big on that one. CEO/policy choices kill many, many people. The insurance company form of Bureaucratic Murder.

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candybrie 14 points 2 years ago

It doesn't automatically save anyone. The CEO isn't personally murdering anyone. Their policies don't go away. The health care industry isn't magically made better by one CEOs death. It leads to a slight chance of health care reform as the comic states. But we actually have to do more to get that outcome.

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slaacaa 13 points 2 years ago

The health care industry isn't magically made better by one CEOs death

You’re right, probably more needs to die for real change

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Buffalox 9 points 2 years ago

The health care industry isn’t magically made better by one CEOs death.

Are you sure?

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samus12345 24 points 2 years ago

That's a crappy way to tie someone to a track. A lot more meat to have to plow through, making derailment more likely.

I like how the guy in the bottom two panels is Luigi.

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blandfordforever 7 points 2 years ago

If you don't like plowing that meat, who am I to judge?

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Krauerking 3 points 2 years ago

Sure but notice they also told him up feet first so in case it fails to kill him he at least gets to make an insurance claim for his new pre-existing condition of mangled trolley legs.

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thermal_shock 2 points 2 years ago

flesh can derail a train!?!

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samus12345 1 point 2 years ago

A small trolley like that? Sure, easily.

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sunbytes 13 points 2 years ago

Wait, Luigi had a mentor?!

Purple jacket person is organising a cabal of ethical assassins.

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Hupf 4 points 2 years ago

Mistress Splinter?

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tigeruppercut 5 points 2 years ago

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