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Fired, yeah, but the 8-year health plan was great
Posted by Fired Fred on November 21, 2007 4:56 PM
The usual process after being fired, something which I've learned in my working career, means some HR drone cuts you out of all the extra stuff the company told you were great reasons for working for them.
Health care is really expensive, so the drones want to make sure you're cutoff or shunted onto a COBRA plan immediately. I know I was shocked to hear that some government HR person in Michigan screwed this up for Jackie Youhanian.
She got the county government approved pink slip almost as soon as she was hired. Someone forgot to tell the insurance company about that...
A woman who was fired after less than 10 days as a county worker ran up eight years and $230,000 worth of bills on her government-paid health insurance for cancer and other treatments, a prosecutor says.The prosecutor called this a criminal scheme. Yeah, it would have been much less expensive for them if she'd conveniently dropped dead, wouldn't it? Thanks heavens Congress and the White House will protect a big insurer like Blue Cross from the terror of anything resembling a single-payer healthcare system.
The 38-year-old woman used her Macomb County-funded Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance to pay for care for ovarian cancer, multiple sclerosis and spinal problems, authorities say. They say Blue Cross investigators discovered the billings.
How long until January 20, 2009, anyway? Not soon enough, right?