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If I had a mother like that I’d try suicide too!
#1 – Ketchy
>>If I had a mother like that I’d try suicide too!
Knock it off, Catsup. She’s big, she’s hefty, she’s got three orifices and a gallon of Mazola. Duct tape too.
You know you want it.
In Soviet Russia, suicide is insurance.
You must be really hurting for bad reviews of the US medical system if you are forced to use the video of a woman so fat she has to use a Rascal wheel chair (with the optional pony print seats) talking about how her “SCAM” insurance DID pay for something.
Dang, where do you get a family policy for $580 a month? I’m all over that.
I don’t know whats worst; she tells her (I’m assuming that is the one) suicidal daughter that her mother is a “poor lady” or that she has cow print on her scooter.
I wonder if this was her try out for MTV’s new show, “Pimp My Rascal”?
I don’t know whats [sic] worst [sic]; the reprehensible actions of the insurance company or the shallowness of the people who’s only argument against the callousness of the insurance company is “that woman’s fat!”
Come again? 580 a month for insurance? Shoot!
I quit my insurance because it was 500 Euros a year and I thought it wasn’t worth it…
Of course we get free public heath (well, almost free… there’s regulatory taxes, but these are symbolic.) and, true, it’s very slow and sometimes plain bad, but hey, I pay my taxes for something, right?
All in all, I think that privatizing the health system can give some sporadic good results, but for the most part it will only drive up the prices of health care and restrict more and more access to basic health.
I agree with #8
With a spokesperson like that, who needs a story! I mean, does anyone remember what song Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were singing? I didn’t think so!
Up until the part where she says that the daughter was 8 years old, all I could think of was, Yuck, someone jumped that 2 years and 9 months ago? I nearly lost my lunch.
Eight years ago, she might have only been 350 lbs or so. But let me guess. The aspirin was in a non-childproof bottle because she couldn’t get the childproof one to open with her bloated fingers.
Oh, and she’s self employed! As what? Ballast?
#11,
Why does not fitting your standards of what a human should be make her any less deserving of being treated equally in this case?
Please reference comment #8 before continuing your gross display of ignorance.
Good to see the dense commenters here would rather comment on the woman’s weight than the obvious flaw in the health industry that is corrupt and beyond saving.
This mentality is why bush and his cronies are able to keep their jobs, they aren’t in jail, and why the country has been taken to hell in a handbasket. People like those commenting in this thread can’t be bothered with ‘tough’ stories. They want to be ‘glib’ and ‘witty’ (no, you clowns, you aren’t either of these). Instead of being outraged that a 2 year old who accidentally ingested a lethal amount of aspirin and their insurance wanted to call it a suicide attempt, you people would rather drone on about the mother’s weight.
Asshats.
She had a legitimate gripe about the insurance company, however, I just can’t stand people that let themselves get so fat that they can’t walk.
Yuch!
#11 – Dave W. – Oh, and she’s self employed! As what?
She’s the one on the other end of the line when you call the 1-900 numbers… watch that video again and read this:
#2 – I agree with #15. I’ll bet James Hill spends a lot of money with her.
On a more serious note, insurance companies are such a rip. They don’t have to manufacture or ship anything. Just print paper and rip people off…
I’m adding this woman to SitOnMyFaceBook.
#15, Jag,
You just made someone’s day a lot brighter. Dave will be back after a cigarette.
#18 – Mr. Fusion
LOL! 😀 Thanks man. Needed that laugh! 🙂
Reminds me of the old Woody Allen joke of going to strict freudian analysis that if you killed yourself you had to pay ahead for sessions with the analyst – whether you were three or not
Many would say that the whole basis of the insurance agency is to take premiums and yet find ways to weasel out of any payments for claims
This is a fine example of this insurance strategy
Thats a whale of a story.
They are going to make money but the people that denied her claim should do a few weeks in jail on bread and water. Why? Attempted fraud.
Why the f*ck was this lady keeping medication within reach of a 2 year old. Blame the mom.
#16 “On a more serious note, insurance companies are such a rip. They don’t have to manufacture or ship anything. Just print paper and rip people off…”
The exact same thing could be said about government.
#23, Michael,
Why the f*ck was this lady keeping medication within reach of a 2 year old. Blame the mom.
What does that have to do with the child being denied treatment by the insurance company?
I know I will get flamed for this, but people need to start suing their insurance companies. No, lawsuits aren’t always the answer, but in cases like these, they are.
#26;
I don’t think that will help. Insurance companies will just factor that as a “cost of doing business” and continue as normal. That’s why so many companies don’t care about any sort of government fines anymore, they just pass the costs off to the customers.
We need to fundamentally rethink how certain industries are regulated in this country.
#23, Michael,
Why the f*ck was this lady keeping medication within reach of a 2 year old. Blame the mom.
What does that have to do with the child being denied treatment by the insurance company?
Obviously you don’t have kids.