Many US hospitals try to collect medical debt by suing patients to claim part of the value of their homes. It is perfectly logical, in an economy which values profit for the rich over the lives of everyone else.

Note how Belk's medical insurance required him to go back to the hospital company that had sued him before. It did not cover treatment anywhere else. That is a common nastiness of private medical insurance in the US. A national medical system would not do that. It also would not put patients into debt for failure to be rich.

*Global health and environmental costs of food industry are $10tn a year – UN

*[The food industry's] "price tag" of non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, poverty and harm to planet is 10% of global GDP, says UN food agency.*

These costs are not all the same in kind. It might be possible to entirely avoid the noncommercial diseases caused by harmful diets, as well as malnutrition and poverty, at no cost by improving some aspects of social organization.

However, diseases caused by byproducts of food production, and "harm to planet", are a different kind of matter. We could surely reduce those, but we cannot assume a priori that reducing them to zero is possible.

Big Oil's methods of crushing protests against pollution projects include SLAPP lawsuits and laws to criminalize many kinds of protests.

The companies also procure the overzealous support from thug departments, whose staff tend to be right-wing.

*Biden faces calls not to seek re-election as shock poll rattles senior Democrats.*

The London thug chief stood firm for freedom of expression, resisting pressure from Tory politicians who demanded he ban a march to express support for Palestine.

Anti-semitism is a big danger, and prejudice is never a good thing. But when governments try to protect people from anti-semitism, they can turn into a danger to freedom of expression if they push the boundary too far.