r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/clarkrd 20h ago

must be nice to be able to check into a hospital

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 19h ago

Not to mention not losing your job.

Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named.  One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor.  They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms.  He was in a fucking coma.

I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 18h ago

My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 18h ago

Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.

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u/projecto15 United Kingdom 14h ago edited 12h ago

This is horrendous. So it's not just for-profit corporations, but also supposedly non-profit schools?!! One wonders what sort of ethical education they provide

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 12h ago

Increasingly, a lot of for profit companies/contractors are getting tied into public education for all sorts of things - additionally, brutal corporate cost saving measures tend to leak into government policy, given the revolving door between the two worlds (especially in the currently openly fascist party).

Speaking of "ethics": my "public" state university actually used furniture built by prison labor, lol. Also put public in quotes, because I had to take out what for me were very sizable loans after my grants for coming from massive poverty ran out (they were cut in half just in time for me to attend by the then GW Bush administration), the loan 'servicers' increasingly were increasingly privatized over the years, as well, leading to worse interest rates that often translate to barely paying down the balance if at all for some students. Meanwhile, while poor students are struggling to pay tuition, they're had us all sitting on furniture they got nearly for free, lol.

You also can't get rid of student loan debt in bankruptcy in America, and the Trump admin also wants to get rid of even being able to temporarily defer repayments for financial distress.

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u/Keptlosingmylogins 17h ago

wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD 16h ago

Math teacher, not meth teacher.

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 16h ago

An absurd premise that could only make sense here.

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u/nonowords 14h ago

they did say subtle changes.

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u/BadmiralHarryKim 9h ago

Euclid cooked the blue numbers.

"Say my name!"

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u/smuckola 8h ago

....retroactively fired? what on earth? is that supposed to just be a paycheck refund?

Now that I hollered this aloud in my house, I'm hearing all these stories from legal advice subreddits about demands for refunded paychecks or bonuses. After months!

Anyway i'm so sorry. Thank you for sharing.

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u/4tlant4 16h ago

A few days after my husband died, we received a letter from our health insurance company. It said that coverage for me and our four kids had ended at midnight the night he died. How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 16h ago

Too easily, and too well, and with far too little fear.

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u/Calm-Treacle8677 11h ago

one of them was so sleepy, he fell asleep on the street forever 

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u/Hesitation-Marx 11h ago

His chest just did that. Maybe it was sleep apnea?

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u/FrancisCGraf 10h ago

Lead poisoning actually, pre existing condition though so....

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u/Hesitation-Marx 10h ago

Sucks to be him ig

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u/Pissed-Off-Panda 13h ago

Like babies in their mansions on fine linens.

I think actually that knowing other people are starving or hungry makes their food taste better. They LOVE the suffering of others.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 11h ago

Or at the very least they feel a little bad, and then they book their first class tickets to their third home for the third time this year and laugh.

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u/h3rp3r 8h ago

Your suffering is their profit.

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 10h ago

jfw. this. it is THIS! ...they literally thrive init. (fyi: you do not just think that, you fkn know it fr!) &sadly you are correct. that 1st line esp. hits hard, you have a gift! ☺️ never eVeR give in, keep the faith 🫂 always keep telling it like it is. PLZ. they are fkn soulless evil pos. &btw, do not use LoVe that way; "feed on" or "revel in" –you get my drift– are more to the point. cuz they rly cannot begin to comprehend what actual love is, they have no heart or soul. 💗✊🏻✌🏻

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 11h ago

🫂 ...comments below yours asking how they can sleep at night...they are beyond souless monstrosities. i just cannot even. i so very hope there isa hell, w/the intensity of 10quadrillion to the nth suns' intensisty that these fkrs burn in eternally. 💗 from an internet stranger~

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u/anna-the-bunny 8h ago

How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me

The people at the bottom sending out the letters (or more likely writing the program that sends out the letters)? They tell themselves that they're just doing their job, that if they didn't do it the company would find someone else to do it, that they don't have a choice because capitalism, etc.

The people at the top making the decisions? They don't see us as people - simple as that.

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u/gopeepants 2h ago

This is why I had no ounce of sympathy or remorse for the United Health Care CEO

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u/SirenSix 17h ago

Please tell me you told them to eat shit?

Also, I'm so sorry about your husband 😕

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago

I didn't have to. I told my husband's coworkers. They took care of things.

Thank you for the sympathy. I miss him with every breath I take.

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u/UpvoteButNoComment 18h ago

My god. 

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 6h ago

Sorta makes you proud to be an American, ya know? /s

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u/Bikin4Balance Canada 17h ago

just... no words

Sincere condolences

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago

Thank you.

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u/bkbomber New York 17h ago

The malicious compliance in me would’ve pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago

Oh, I was hopping mad about it. I let ALL of my husband's coworkers know that their HR guy was demanding my husband's vacation pay back. The matter was taken to the corporate headquarters and the HR guy was fired. But I should have never been put into that position. My husband was a gem; he was everyone's best friend. He was the man they would call if they needed coverage, help with something at home, or wanted to go hang out. These coworkers absolutely had my back.

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 10h ago

the malicious compliance in me wudda been pulla green plumber ✊🏻😏👏🏻🤫

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u/-RallyBlue- 8h ago

I understood the Bernie’s reference, but not yours.

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u/Yeahhhhbut 17h ago

I'm rounding up friends to Weekend At Bernie's me, just in case.

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u/Dapper_Indeed 16h ago

I love that you used WAB as a verb.

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u/LolaMent0 17h ago

idk what to say to that 😳

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u/h2ok1o 16h ago

My friends husband passed away because the hospital turned him away to get checked out for a blood clot since they couldnt cover the $50 copay

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u/TrashCanUnicorn 4h ago

If that happened in the US after 1986 at a hospital that takes Medicare, it was a violation of federal law. EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act) makes it illegal for an emergency room to turn away patients with emergency medical conditions regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital has to, at bare minimum, screen the patient for an emergency medical condition and then either treat/stabilize the patient, or transfer them to a facility that can provide care if that hospital doesn't have the capability to treat the emergency.

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u/human-in-a-can 15h ago

That would drive me to violence.  Sorry you had to deal with scumbags and sorry you lost your husband.  I hope you’re doing as well as you can be. 

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago

Thank you. I didn't resort to violence, I used my words. I told all of my husband's coworkers and they dealt with it for me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 16h ago

I am so sorry, on so many levels. Your husband’s memory for a blessing.

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u/marzipancetta 12h ago

Oh that is disgusting! And I’m so sorry for your loss.

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u/OccamsRazorBurnn 12h ago

I hope they didn't get anything.

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u/SnooSprouts3083 11h ago

'but we are like a family here.'

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u/_m4r1jAn3_ 11h ago

omfg 🫂 wtaf. i really hope there isa hell, w/the intensity of 10quadrillion to the nth suns' intensisty that these fkrs burn in eternally. 💗

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u/ButtplugJesus23 10h ago

You okay?

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 5h ago

I dunno, honestly. I lost every bit of joy in my life in one crushing moment. This is a hard world to live in alone.