Yet Another Reason To Hate The Banks
In one of the most heartless bank greed stories ever, a man was fired 3 days before his little girl's surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. They not only terminated him but delayed his opportunity to get cobra coverage for his little girl. She died a year later and to add insult to injury, the family's life insurance had also terminated. All this 'for cause' due to a time sheet issue that was signed off on by his supervisor when it took place. Now, lets share the guilt here with a hospital that cancelled life saving surgery on a child due to insurance issues. For the name of the bank and more details look here. This is posted here on WU in the hope of two things: 1) that enough exposure will cause the well deserved public shame of those who made this decision and 2) that it is truly weird, as in, this does not happen often or at all normally.
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Many thanks to my hubby who found this story. So we loan them billions and they speed up on foreclosures, then a story like this. This makes me think of the movie Saw 6. Anyone whose seen it will know why.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/12/12 at 11:33 PM
Patty's link is dead but I think this is the story here.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 01:00 AM
Thanks for the heads up sweetie. I redid my link and it works for me when I tried it. Your link is great too, thanks for that as well.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/13/12 at 01:13 AM
Would this have been a preventable death if there was a national health service in the USA?
Posted by dumbledoor on 08/13/12 at 08:10 AM
Probably not! I've seen what "national health services" can do and I'm not impressed. Well, that's not, exactly true. I am impressed but negatively.
The best thing would be to strip the lawyers of their abilities to bring frivolous law suits against the medical profession, lower or set maximum amounts that can be awarded in the event of some negative event, and lower (by a bunch) the cost of medical training in general. The FDA is also a major cause for the high cost of drugs. The INSANE path of daggers the drug companies have to go through to get a new drug on the market drives the cost out of sight!
No, it's a well proven fact that governments can't run businesses efficiently and ours (the USofA) is well in the forefront of that proof.
The best thing would be to strip the lawyers of their abilities to bring frivolous law suits against the medical profession, lower or set maximum amounts that can be awarded in the event of some negative event, and lower (by a bunch) the cost of medical training in general. The FDA is also a major cause for the high cost of drugs. The INSANE path of daggers the drug companies have to go through to get a new drug on the market drives the cost out of sight!
No, it's a well proven fact that governments can't run businesses efficiently and ours (the USofA) is well in the forefront of that proof.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 09:21 AM
I just checked into Chuck's weekly post over on his site and the #1 paragraph backs up my views and answers your question DD.
Click Here
Click Here
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 09:30 AM
@ Expat, Texas did ALL the things that you suggest regarding malpractice liability law "reform". Back when GWB was gov. The only change has been the reduction of amounts paid to victims of malpractice. Insurance rates have Not gone down,for malpractice or health. :coolhmm:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 08/13/12 at 11:32 AM
Florida did about the same thing but as long as the states "regulate" the insurance game, which is part and parcel of the medical field, they aren't going to change one iota.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 11:35 AM
Well, Hopefully, Romneycare OOPS! Obamacare will solve all our health-care woes! :coolsmile:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 08/13/12 at 12:01 PM
Take a large breath, go hide in a bush and wait.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 12:04 PM
Perhaps if the employee hadn't falsified his time records, he wouldn't have been fired. Also, if you as a parent know your child is about to have surgery and you've just been fired, wouldn't you want to know about COBRA? Not this guy - he waited for 90 days until the information was *sent* to him.
There are way too many holes in the story to just claim it's the bank's fault.
There are way too many holes in the story to just claim it's the bank's fault.
Posted by Robert on 08/13/12 at 02:18 PM
Perhaps if you are willing to believe the WF's version which contradicts the others, perhaps if you are so eager to fellate the banks to consider that the parent of a dying child might have a misunderstanding of insurance policies, perhaps if forget that it wasn't the parent who received billions of bailout payments...
A little girl is dead but that's not as important as Wells Fargo--an institution which has been found guilty of worse than this--possibly being slightly misrepresented.
There are way too many holes in Americans' heads to just hope for this to get better.
A little girl is dead but that's not as important as Wells Fargo--an institution which has been found guilty of worse than this--possibly being slightly misrepresented.
There are way too many holes in Americans' heads to just hope for this to get better.
Posted by Mark on 08/13/12 at 03:11 PM
Wow - over-dramatic much?
If you're the parent of a sick child, it would behoove you (a) not to get fired for cause, and (b) to understand your insurance policy. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so.
If you're the parent of a sick child, it would behoove you (a) not to get fired for cause, and (b) to understand your insurance policy. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so.
Posted by Robert on 08/13/12 at 08:16 PM
Handing those greedy bastards billions without forcing them to change their policies (you know the ones that put them in insolvency in the first place) was the damn dumbest thing that could have been done. It was worse than if they'd have been let to fail. The execs get huge bonuses and cut health care costs by doing dirty crap like the above. Its disgusting and indefensible.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/13/12 at 08:18 PM
The man's supervisor approved his time sheets. What part of that did you not get!?
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/13/12 at 08:21 PM
The story is about a man who was fired and a supervisor who should also have been fired as well. The story was not about bailouts or government policies, and your attempt to hijack the website for your own pet political cause is inappropriate.
Posted by Robert on 08/13/12 at 09:00 PM
Wow Robert, Heartless much? :down:
Give'im hell Patty :coolsmile:
Give'im hell Patty :coolsmile:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 08/13/12 at 09:10 PM
Thanks Tyrus guy.Robert, this is not political to me at all. This is about a small child who was allowed to die by 2 heartless institutions. A bank trying to save a dime at any cost and a hospital that chose $ over a child's life. I am sorry you can not see that.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/13/12 at 09:31 PM
@Patty: That's it!
@Robert: You lucked out, dude!
@Patty: Seriously, that's it?
@Robert: You lucked out, dude!
@Patty: Seriously, that's it?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/13/12 at 11:44 PM
I watched a family go through this. My sister's old boss lost his little girl to cancer. We helped with fundraisers and her mom and dad fought so hard for her. She was 3 when diagnosed with a brain tumor and 5 when the aggressive cancer killed her. The feelings of helplessness towards the end were excruciating for them even though she got excellent treatment. I can not imagine how the above family must have felt watching their child wither away without being able to get proper treatment for her. No hope from the very beginning. So tragic, how could anyone not see how wrong that is. It breaks my heart.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/14/12 at 12:18 AM
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