• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      They may mean tomorrow in the metaphorical sense. Like “the world of tomorrow” kind of sense.

      It also could just be an arbitrary/hyperbole number, to show how little the lives of the many mater to the news in comparison to the ceo.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      It’s about 9k a day. That’s just all deaths. Medically treatable and avoidable deaths is 624 a day. According to the only numbers I can find, but it’s wonky, so I’ll grant you it may not be precise, but it’s probably a good ballpark number.

      Even if it’s one person a day that dies without necessity of a preventable and treatable cause that universal healthcare would have fixed, that’s a lot of deaths. And it’s more than one CEO who likely thought very seriously about the question ‘‘is curing anyone a good business model?’’

    • wildcardology@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 months ago

      The post never said 16m will die daily. It just says tomorrow. The 16m is probably the number of customers this guy’s company has and denies coverage.

      • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 months ago

        Even more specifically than that, it’s just telling you tomorrow that 16m with a preventable health issue will die, not when or how.

        Not correcting you, just adding a little clarification for how i read it