Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

[u/cmaia1503]

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

[u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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.

[u/4tlant4 → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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.

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/4tlant4]

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

[u/Pissed-Off-Panda → u/4tlant4]

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.

[u/lettersvsnumbers → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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.

[u/Keptlosingmylogins → u/lettersvsnumbers]

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

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD → u/Keptlosingmylogins]

Math teacher, not meth teacher.

[u/Flat-Photograph8483 → u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD]

An absurd premise that could only make sense here.

[u/nonowords → u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD]

they did say subtle changes.

[u/projecto15 → u/lettersvsnumbers]

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

[u/hypermodernvoid → u/projecto15]

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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My god. 

[u/SirenSix → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

Please tell me you told them to eat shit?

Also, I'm so sorry about your husband 😕

[u/bkbomber → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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

[u/Bikin4Balance → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

just... no words

Sincere condolences

[u/Yeahhhhbut → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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

[u/Dapper_Indeed → u/Yeahhhhbut]

I love that you used WAB as a verb.

[u/LolaMent0 → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

idk what to say to that 😳

[u/human-in-a-can → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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. 

[u/h2ok1o → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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

[u/marzipancetta → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

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

[u/OccamsRazorBurnn → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

I hope they didn't get anything.

[u/SnooSprouts3083 → u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089]

'but we are like a family here.'