TV Nation - Profiting from AIDS

A segment from Michael Moore's TV Nation (1994) in which Karen Duffy investigates investment brokers who are offering their clients the life insurance policies of AIDS patients at discounted prices.

This video is not meant to infringe on any copyrights, but to share this amazing show of Moore's with those who didn't catch it the first time around on television, especially as TV Nation has not been made commercially available to purchase

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News & Politics

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• tv
• nation
• michael
• moore
• karen
• duffy
• aids
• investment
• broker
• life
• insurance

[poidog55]

profit off sick people. shameful.

[Unmourned]

Man...These fucking, fucking people.

[CheDonJohn]

@allowambeBOWWAMB Exactly. No one forced the patients to sell their policies. They weren't being cheated or extorted (or, as far as I know; if they were put under pressure by the brokers to sell, then that's different!)

The issue, on the part of the broker, is not whether they are taking advantage of the patients; it's whether they have the stomach to accept a positive (the profit) from a severe negative (a stranger's inevitable premature death).

It's morbid, but not unethical.

[giraffethecamel]

fuck the fda fuck monsanto

[cunt3d]

karen duffy used to smoak weed with me every day back in '94

[allowambeBOWWAMB]

@adrewk Well, people choose to do this, it's not like they are forced to make this arrangement. The market is only the sum of people's voulenteer actions. Denying this would be denying free will and that we are just mere leaves blowing in the sky.

What we should be pissed at, is FDA and government regulations, who makes medicines way more expensive. Without FDA it would be 90% cheaper!

[adrewk]

dead peasants* whoops!

[adrewk]

@allowambeBOWWAMB you are correct, but heres the problem with this arrangment. they/elite/nwo/wealthy will never let a cure for aids/cancer reach the public. especially with profits at 50% of the original investment.

did you ever wonder why aids/hiv was never quarantined? this is why.

"they" want us to die. and why not make a few bucks in the process

profitting from aids.....dead pheasants insurance policies.....when the fuck are we going to stand up and put an end to this bullshit?

[scorinaldi]

this man is human slime. karen duffy is my wife

[allowambeBOWWAMB]

The AIDS patient can choose NOT to do this. But it's win-win if the AIDS patient doesn't wanna let his/her relatives get the policy. The AIDS patient actually gets money WHILE he/she is alive.

It's just the aspect that it "looks bad" that people who invested says "yay" when the person dies. The AIDS patient doesn't have use for the money when he/she is dead.

So you would *rather* let the AIDS person have NO money because it looks bad at the investor's aspect?

[lucdevaux]

I hope some of these guys get a really painful disease. This is absolutely the lowest of the lowest. I don't call these people "human". Sorry, in my book they are not human anymore.

[jimpurdie]

i dont think insurance companys insured hiv positive people?