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Ralph Wiggum:

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Wed Dec 4, 2024, 02:22 PM
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In response to United Health Care CEO misfortune let me tell you a true story [View all]
In 1987 at the age of 29, I came down with salivary gland cancer. Although it was tough and expensive, it was doable and I was in remission. Fast forward to 1993 and it came back with a vengance and metastasized. Because it was deemed a "pre-exisiting" condition, the insurance company (Blue Cross) denied coverage. I amassed 197K in medical bills and filed for brankruptcies more than the allowable amount of times in the specified period. Because, I did that the doctors were forced to continue with treatment and my life was saved. Because of that, I was charged with abuse of the US Bankruptcy laws and Contempt of the Federal Judicial Process. I pled guilty to contempt of court and a violation of the Judges order to cease filing. I spent 13 months in a Federal prison, I am now a felon and did probabtion for 3 years. In addition, we lost everything we had. But I also negotiated in court that the bill be reduced to 11K. Three lessons I got out of this: 1) everyone should be on a single payer universal health care like I had in Europe. 2) in the US you either pay with time or money 3) **** insurance companies and the greedy assholes that run them
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219788502

First, if this story is true (always a dubious claim by a DUmmy) I'm sincerely sorry that you had to suffer through the "Big C". As a cancer survivor myself, I can certainly sympathize.

However, I'm not really buying this tale of woe by rife with poor spelling and dubious claims. And certainly this is not a case to be made for single payer universal health care, you're just using the brazen assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to bolster your own political arguments.

SVPete:

--- Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on December 05, 2024, 08:54:29 AM ---https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219788502

First, if this story is true (always a dubious claim by a DUmmy) I'm sincerely sorry that you had to suffer through the "Big C". As a cancer survivor myself, I can certainly sympathize.

However, I'm not really buying this tale of woe by rife with poor spelling and dubious claims. And certainly this is not a case to be made for single payer universal health care, you're just using the brazen assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO to bolster your own political arguments.

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Yep, he's using his irrelevant :bouncy: to dehumanize the UnitedHealthcare CEO or outright justify his murder.

IRL, the delays built into Canada-style or Brit-style nationalized healthcare would probably have caused gopiscrap to die while waiting for diagnosis and treatment.

67 Rover:

--- Quote ---gopiscrap (24,195 posts)
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 02:22 PM
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In response to United Health Care CEO misfortune let me tell you a true story [View all]
In 1987 at the age of 29, I came down with salivary gland cancer. Although it was tough and expensive, it was doable and I was in remission. Fast forward to 1993 and it came back with a vengance and metastasized. Because it was deemed a "pre-exisiting" condition, the insurance company (Blue Cross) denied coverage. I amassed 197K in medical bills and filed for brankruptcies more than the allowable amount of times in the specified period. Because, I did that the doctors were forced to continue with treatment and my life was saved. Because of that, I was charged with abuse of the US Bankruptcy laws and Contempt of the Federal Judicial Process. I pled guilty to contempt of court and a violation of the Judges order to cease filing. I spent 13 months in a Federal prison, I am now a felon and did probabtion for 3 years. In addition, we lost everything we had. But I also negotiated in court that the bill be reduced to 11K. Three lessons I got out of this: 1) everyone should be on a single payer universal health care like I had in Europe. 2) in the US you either pay with time or money 3) **** insurance companies and the greedy assholes that run them
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Food for thought.

You spent more time in jail than Hunter Biden who owed > 1.8 million in taxes and had multiple felony gun charges.

Old n Grumpy:
It sounds like he should have stayed in Europe

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