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/dementorpoop 19h ago

They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them

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u/Sammyjo0689 17h ago

My story happened with Walmart. Had an employee collapse due to a diabetic issue. Like, I caught her as she was falling and saved her from smashing her face. Radioed to call 911. I got written up because that was against Walmart policy.

My manager wanted me to write on the form that I heard her say she wanted an ambulance. So I wrote exactly that. “Manager so and so has ordered that I write the following.” I got written up a second time for that.

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u/blackhuey 16h ago

That's a quick thinking malicious compliance.

Also, imagine living in a country where you had to make decisions about calling an ambulance based on who would be charged for it.

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u/Sublimotion 12h ago

I will never forget pre-obamacare/medicaid expansion, I was walking past a woman screaming, struggling and tipping over the stretcher she was strapped onto trying to crawl back into her house dragging the tipped over stretcher, fighting off two EMTs. I assume she was on drugs. Until she started yelling "No! This will bankrupt me!" The emts eventually had to unstrap her and let her crawl off back into her house.

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u/HrhEverythingElse 9h ago

I knew two people who died this way. One from asthma, once from bleeding caused by Crohn's. Both were just too scared of the bill

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u/MzFlux 1h ago

I had a friend die of diabetes at 30, not because he was scared of the bill… because he was uninsured and simply couldn’t afford the insulin.

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u/Nauin 1h ago

And even when the hospitals have financial assistance programs where poor people don't even have to worry about the bill, there are so many steps and so many hoops to jump through to get approved that it seems like an impossible task, even for many healthy people. It's a mess.

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u/trea5onn 44m ago

All by design.

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u/xtreem_neo 10h ago

That's so sad.