Wells Fargo fires employee to cut insurance because his daughter's cancer surgery is too expensive.
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In this thread, everyone thinks that American health care isn't already government controlled.
They just aren't funding it for everyone.
[QUOTE=Jager_57;37162191]In this thread, everyone thinks that American health care isn't already government controlled.
[B]They just aren't funding it for everyone.[/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, including a little girl who needed it to live.
Kinda reminds me of the premise behind the show "Leverage"
Main character/leader dude worked at an insurance firm that then denied him coverage on his son's procedure. Son dies, dad dedicates life to getting leverage on evil companies/people in power and does so by hiring incredibly talented criminals.
The dad should have broke bad.
[QUOTE=elevate;37161657]This should be considered murder.[/QUOTE]
I agree entirely.
They offered him health insurance for his family as part of his employment.
Why would be bother getting his own health insurance if his company was providing it right?
Daughter gets cancer.
Now the price of insuring her sky-rockets, costing more than the price of the surgery itself.
He gets fired, now she has [B]no[/B] policy.
She dies. He gets no life insurance either, cause that was also provided by the employer.
Fucking cunts.
I'd love to take a dump on the executives face who made this decision.
The story doesn't mention how this will affect his job prospects from being fired. This company let his daughter die and ruined his career.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;37164776]The story doesn't mention how this will affect his job prospects from being fired. This company let his daughter die and ruined his career.[/QUOTE]
He's working at Chase now, but can't sell securities because of the reasons Wells Fargo gave for firing him, and makes a lot less money because of it.
I work as an interpreter for spanish in LLS and I get tons of calls from Wells Fargo, you really have to leave your heart at home because some of the calls are so fucking sad, they don't give a damn about their customers nor their own people. .
[QUOTE=elevate;37161657]This should be considered murder.[/QUOTE]
I dunno about that. "Involuntary manslaughter by gross negligence" sounds about right though.
I wouldn't say murder, but I would definitely see it as manslaughter.
[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;37167745]I dunno about that. "Involuntary manslaughter by gross negligence" sounds about right though.[/QUOTE]
I would say this was voluntary
I know you guys are upset but you can't arbitrarily call things murder or manslaughter when they're clearly not
[QUOTE=Kalibos;37173345]I know you guys are upset but you can't arbitrarily call things murder or manslaughter when they're clearly not[/QUOTE]
Manslaughter means you're responsible for someone's death without meaning to kill them.
In this case, Wells Fargo fired the guy so that he wouldn't have health insurance to pay for his daughter's expensive surgery, thus resulting in her death.
Now I'm quite sure they were just being greedy assholes instead of greedy [I]murdering[/I] assholes, so manslaughter would apply.
I knew the US insurance system was fucked up but holy shit to this point? The actual insurance system costs more than what it costs in France, which gives all of its citizen a working healthcare that covers nearly everything.
Good healthcare =/= government controlling everything and taking away the taxpayer's money, why can't people get their head around that.
He wasn't fired because his daughter had cancer
Sensational as phuck
[QUOTE=Lemonator;37173994]He wasn't fired because his daughter had cancer
Sensational as phuck[/QUOTE]
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Wells Fargo claimed to fire Gonzalez because he allegedly had falsified his time records, according to the lawsuit. But his supervisor had input the time records and said it was fine that he could not always remember the exact hours he worked, the lawsuit says[/QUOTE]
shut up lemonator
[QUOTE=NightmareXx;37174009]shut up lemonator[/QUOTE]
There's no way that's the only reason, it was never clearly said why he was fired, probably because he wanted the real reason kept private
[QUOTE=Lemonator;37174031]There's no way that's the only reason, it was never clearly said why he was fired, probably because he wanted the real reason kept private[/QUOTE]
Right, so that's why they also never sent the information on continuing his insurance after he'd been fired.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;37174031] it was never clearly said why he was fired[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Wells Fargo claimed to fire Gonzalez because he allegedly had falsified his time records[/QUOTE]
shut up lemonator
[QUOTE=Forumaster;37173627]Manslaughter means you're responsible for someone's death without meaning to kill them.
In this case, Wells Fargo fired the guy so that he wouldn't have health insurance to pay for his daughter's expensive surgery, thus resulting in her death.
Now I'm quite sure they were just being greedy assholes instead of greedy [I]murdering[/I] assholes, so manslaughter would apply.[/QUOTE]
it's a convoluted chain of responsibility. the company didn't CAUSE her to die, cancer did.
you could also say that the hospital is responsible because they wouldn't perform the treatments for free since they knew the kid would die if they didn't
give a man a gun, he can rob a bank
give a man a bank, he can rob the world
God, this makes my blood boil. They make tons of dosh and they can't even afford the insurance of a cancer patient? Bullshit.
[QUOTE=W0w00t;37174372]give a man a gun, he can rob a bank
give a man a bank, he can rob the world[/QUOTE]
give a man universal healthcare, obummer is a commie
Isn't privatized healthcare wonderful?
[QUOTE=Lemonator;37173994]He wasn't fired because his daughter had cancer
Sensational as phuck[/QUOTE]Lets say he wasn't.
Regardless of whatever reason being fired shouldn't result in someone's daughter dying of a treatable disease. Anyone who thinks that private healthcare is working fine after seeing something like this is either willfully ignorant or very privileged.
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