"Lincare has been repeatedly found guilty of defrauding Medicare; in this century alone, they have been put on probation four times, with a "death penalty" provision that would permanently disqualify them from ever doing business with the federal government. In every case, Lincare committed fresh acts of fraud, but never faced that death penalty.

Why not? Lincare is far too big to fail. In America's bizarre, worst-in-class, world-beatingly expensive privatized health care system, even public health provision (like Medicare) is outsourced to the private sector. Lincare has monopolized oxygen, a famously very important molecule for human survival, and if it were disqualified from serving Medicare, large numbers of Americans would literally asphyxiate.

Lincare clearly knows this. Too big to fail is too big to jail, and too big to jail is too big to care. They are the poster children for impunity, repeat offenders, multiply convicted, and still offending, even today. Lincare has been convicted of fraud under the administrations of GW Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, and they're still in business."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/

#USA #Medicare #Healthcare #Lincare #Fraud #TooBigToJail

🟢 Pluralistic: Too big to care
by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic @doctorow
#antitrust #apple #enshittification #ftc #google #johnstewart #kagi #linakhan #monopolism #monopoly #search #thedailyshow #toobigtofail #toobigtojail #trustbusting

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

> Boring Company workers who declined to give their names on the record for fear of retribution said that in some parts of #ElonMusk 's Vegas tunnel system, the sludge would sometimes be up to two feet high. If it got over their work boots or onto their faces, they said, it would burn their skin.

> "You’d be like, 'Why am I on fire?'" one person who worked on the Hyperloop tunnels told Bloomberg.

Elon Musk’s Tunnel Reportedly Oozing With Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-sludge

#Capitalism #LockThemUp #TooBigToJail #HellPlanet #Accountability

“[T]he work of squeezing quality and dignity and concern out of the #labor is automated, or something very near to it

“[B]ut the services of a stern man's face are required in the moments when that work delivers the eruptions of tragedy and carnage that it always does. Someone has to look ashamed, and also ensure that the shameful stuff doesn't stop, or slow.”

https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end

#Capitalism #MakingItWorse #Finance #ApologyTour #TooBigToJail #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #Union