Late Capitalism - Let me pretend to be shocked

It didn't. It is explicitly illegal to cut off electricity when it is medically necessary, however the power company wasn't informed that it was medically necessary in this case. The family did not pay the full bill, they payed $500 of the $1600 they where over, leading to the cut. If they had informed the power company of this, it wouldn't have happened (even if you pretend like they would like to due to greed, they could get their buts sued off if they did it on purpose, making it not even close to worth it from a cost/benefit standpoint.)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/health/new-jersey-woman-dies-oxygen-trnd/index.html

Since he didn't actually link to the article.

You do realize that the same thing could and likely would have happen in a communist system, since that person might be considered too much of a burden on society and other people in general.