Breaking: Incredibly f**ked health insurance story!

by bobswern, Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 05:18:59 PM EST

This belongs at the top of every Democratic blog in the universe. This story's breaking this afternoon in NY's 19th Congressional District via the The Middletown, NY Times Herald-Record, where the most righteous of all political journalists, Hunter S. Thompson, started his career.

I'm sure our nothing-less-than-awesomely progressive Congressman John Hall is going to have a field day with this outrageous piece. I hope this makes the top of every news outlet in the country in the next few hours. If you're reading this, please spread this one far and wide! Time's a wastin'!


HOSPITAL WON'T ACCEPT ITS OWN EMPLOYEES INSURANCE

--St. Luke's Cornwall says insurer is slow to pay, unresponsive--

By Christian Livermore
Times Herald-Record
July 07, 2008 12:32 PM
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dl l/article?AID=/20080707/BIZ/80707022

In what hospital officials say is a financial decision but union members chalk up to spite, St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital has stopped accepting its own employees' health insurance.

See more below the fold


"It's insulting to work at a hospital you can't get sick in," said environmental services associate Brandon Weygant.


P.S.--I can't post anything at DKos until after midnight. Please, please, please someone post this there ASAP...Huffington Post or TPM anyone? Go for it! (Please!)


Poll
Is this the most f**ked story you've read...
In the past week?
In the past month?
In 2008?
Since Chimpy was elected in 2000?
In your lifetime.
I'm immune to this crap. Doesn't surprise me a bit.
I'm a Rethug. To hell with the SEIU, I say!

Votes: 7
Results : Vote Link : Polls


Tags: health insurance, SEIU, NY-19, New York politics (all tags)

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Tips for getting this story out quickly! n/t (2.00 / 7)


by bobswern on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 05:21:26 PM EST

I am sure there is some other aspect (2.00 / 3)

like it isn't the hospital that negotiates the insurer, but nonetheless WTF?!  That is just sad, and hilarious all at the same time.


accepting McLettuce is like being 9 years old and forced to eat your own cooking
by Sychotic1 on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 05:48:55 PM EST

Re: Incredibly f**ked health insurance story! (2.00 / 4)

Thanks for bringing to everyone's attention. I sure would like the Dem Party platform to commit to universal health care (no exceptions).


by moevaughn on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 05:52:41 PM EST

Dkos? I'm on it! (2.00 / 2)

This is incredibly FUBAR.


Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?
by Elsinora on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 05:56:37 PM EST

Yes! Thanks! This story... (none / 0)

...really needs to be read by as many people as possible!!!

It's the kind of thing you'll hear Leno, Letterman, Olbermann and Maher all talking about at the same time.

The quintessentially twisted state of healthcare, all in one headline.

Go for it! And, thanks again!


by bobswern on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 06:09:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Breaking: Incredibly f**ked health insurance s (2.00 / 2)

Thanks...
Needs to be spread around...
Watch SICKO again..give it to a relative who still
rejects reality..
a reminder...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiMMkmGdf _s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaBbbWZi5 ks
"harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy"
by nogo postal on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 06:48:34 PM EST

Re: Breaking: Incredibly f**ked health insurance s (2.00 / 1)

You have to admit it has a real Monte Python quality to it.


Dunno about the rest of you, but I'm only a little ways through this bowl of popcorn.
by QTG on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 12:10:27 AM EST


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