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Video: Wells Fargo Fires Yovany Gonzalez Because His Daughter Needed Cancer Surgery
Wells Fargo allegedly fired an employee because his dying daughter needed expensive cancer treatment, according to a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Court on Thursday.
Wells Fargo fired mortgage consultant Yovany Gonzalez three days before his daughter Mackenzie was scheduled to get cancer surgery in August of 2010, the lawsuit states.
According to the suit, the hospital canceled the surgery because Mackenzie no longer was covered by health insurance.
Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss this incident on Current TV's 'The Young Turks' (video below).
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@sporg0-You do a disservice
@sporg0-You do a disservice with your comments on organ donations. I'm not sure what country you live in,but if you are in the U.S. you are wrong on several points. It is illegal for you or your estate to be compensated for organ/tissue donations. Secondly, it is only done with consent, either on your driver's license, time of death or advanced directive. While it is true some poor countries people sell their organs for cash,it is not legal in the States! Many people die on the waiting list while there are millions of perfectly viable organs going to waste when people die. I am an organ donor,and would encourage everyone to participate in the program. It could save a life someday,maybe yours...
America spends more per
America spends more per capita on health than any other country in the world yet it has a third world health system.
America spends more than double per head than third world countries like France, yet the health system in France puts America to shame.
The bottom line is that
The bottom line is that Republican or Democrat, we are the only modern industrialized country which doesn't have universal health care. Instead, we have for-profit health insurance companies who overcharge, deny coverage, and make life miserable for those of us unfortunate enough to become seriously ill. Especially given the fact that over 97% of US citizens are Christian, our willingness to turn our backs on the sick and poor among us seems especially contradictory. Christ was big on the idea of taking care of the worst-off among us, yet here we are, a so-called "Christian nation" with 40 million-plus uninsured and a health-insurance industry which routinely denies payment for critical medicines and procedures. Palin was wrong when she claimed the Democrats wanted to install 'death-panels"; the real death-panels have already been here for years and they are neither Republican nor Democratic: the real death-boards are the health-insurance companies, and the sooner US citizens realize this, the better. In short, we're letting big-businesses screw us over in a most un-Christian way, and both Democrats and Republicans are to blame.
Wells Fargo, companies like
Wells Fargo, companies like them and the insurance companies (all friends of Mitt Romney and the CU supported GOP).....Those are the REAL death panels, not the ACA.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Absolutely! We have had death
Absolutely! We have had death panels for years,they are called insurance companies! They have always decided who lives and who dies, who deserves that liver or heart. It is not entitlement to expect quality healthcare when we live in the so-called greatest country in the world! The fact is,America is the ONLY. First world country without Universal Healthcare. Our first attempt to cover just a portion of those uninsured is met with outrage from right wing nuts. I got news for you,this country pays for someone who walks into an E/R without insurance one way or another.
My heart goes out to this
My heart goes out to this family. How people can question the truthfulness is pretty sick. The surgery can be canceled until there is an answer as to how it will be paid for. Signing up for Cobra or Medicaid takes paperwork and time! It doesn't magically kick in automatically! My husband is dying of braincancer,luckily I carry the family insurance through my employer..but for many they are not so lucky. Anyone who thinks we don't need Healthcare reform is clearly someone who has never dealt with a terminal illness! Without healthcare my husband's chemo drugs would cost $16,000 a month
Three days before her
Three days before her surgery? Employer-sponsored health coverage is good until the end of the month, so unless he was terminated after the 28th of August or the health care is paid through the bank rather than a health insurance company, this seems a little fishy. A single month of COBRA coverage would be about $600, which would have dealt with her surgery.
Not that I doubt a large corporation like WF would even think twice about screwing over an employee to save a little money - when I needed an expensive brain surgery, I was terminated a week after notifying my employer [extremely large yellow software company] I'd need the time off to recuperate - but the doctors were able to get the date moved up before the end of the month so I still had coverage.
Is there a bank or health insurance company that isn't always actively trying to screw people over these days? Credit unions are an excellent alternative to banks, but what's the alternative to health insurance?
What about COBRA or Medicaid?
What about COBRA or Medicaid? This is exactly why these things were put in place. If my daughter had cancer I'd be looking at both of these options and I'm sure the hospital is aware of this as well. This sounds fishy to me. Wells Fargo is a large company. I'm sure this is not the first nor the last cancer claim. If they can bill it the doctors will find it. They'll never cure it because PHARMA owns the medical schools and train doctors in ways to keep you as a customer for life. When was the last time they actually "cured" something?
What about COBRA or Medicaid?
What about COBRA or Medicaid? They were supposed to be made available IMMEDIATELY after he was fired, but the company took 90 days to give him the paperwork to get any of that, by which time it was too late to save his daughter.
Based on what is already known, he has an excellent case against both Wells Fargo and possibly even against their insurer.
As far as when they actually cured anything....when was the last time we had an outbreak of Polio in this country, there are also very effective cures for many forms of cancer as well as other debilitating and previously terminal diseases that used to be commonplace all over the world; some of which have been completely, or near-completely eradicated.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
I seriously doubt that an
I seriously doubt that an expensive cancer treatment would be covered by either of those at a high quality cancer center. They might cover a "similar" procedure at an alternate facility. By which they mean an antiquated procedure carried out with near medieval equipment and done by doctors who barely speak English.
Its the same thing with Organ donation. If you dont have the cash you are not going to get a transplant period. Organ donation is one of the biggest scams going. They strip your corpsicle of all its most valuable tissues and your estate gets no compensation. Organs are mainly harvested from the poor and impoverished while the majority of transplants are received by wealthy individuals.