A crooked lawyer and his patsy are trying to get a giant settlement. The insurance company calls in an expert to prove the dupe isn’t injured.
[Heavy German accent.] “Bah! In the old days we didn’t bother with tests. If someone said he couldn’t walk we threw him in the snake pit. If he climbed out we knew he was lying.”
That sums up the current system except instead of “knowing he was honest” after death, they would blame the death on “mental health issues” or whatever it takes to ignore the systemic issue that led to it.
Doesn’t sound too dissimilar to some stories coming out of the DWP here - for example, assessment centres being at the top of stairs. If you manage to get there, denied for being able to climb stairs, if you don’t, denied for missing the appointment.
[off topic]
Great old movie, “The Fortune Cookie.”
A crooked lawyer and his patsy are trying to get a giant settlement. The insurance company calls in an expert to prove the dupe isn’t injured.
[Heavy German accent.] “Bah! In the old days we didn’t bother with tests. If someone said he couldn’t walk we threw him in the snake pit. If he climbed out we knew he was lying.”
“What if he couldn’t get out?”
“He’d die. But we knew he was honest.”
That sums up the current system except instead of “knowing he was honest” after death, they would blame the death on “mental health issues” or whatever it takes to ignore the systemic issue that led to it.
Doesn’t sound too dissimilar to some stories coming out of the DWP here - for example, assessment centres being at the top of stairs. If you manage to get there, denied for being able to climb stairs, if you don’t, denied for missing the appointment.
“If you can climb stairs for 5 minutes, you can obviously work 40 hours a week.”