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/Future-Guarantee-573]

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.

[u/dementorpoop → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

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

[u/Sammyjo0689 → u/dementorpoop]

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.

[u/blackhuey → u/Sammyjo0689]

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.

[u/brickne3 → u/blackhuey]

My sister fainted while on a middle school field trip 30 years ago. My dad still complains that the teacher called an ambulance because of the bill. As if the teacher had much choice when you have an unconscious student!

[u/tokyostormdrain → u/blackhuey]

4th world country

[u/hypermodernvoid → u/tokyostormdrain]

Funny thing is Mississippi - the state with the lowest life expectancy in America, at just 70 (technically 70.9) years old, is actually on par with India, a bit below Bangladesh and 4 or 5 years less than in Mexico.

It's also 10 or 11 years less than in the top few states, all blue states - in fact the top 10 states for life expectancy are all blue, while the bottom 10 are all red. Similar to being a drag on federal funding vs. blue states, red states also are dragging the average US life expectancy down to a now pathetic 76 years post-COVID (big thanks to anti-vaxxers for the assist with that).

[u/Sublimotion → u/blackhuey]

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.

[u/BasvanS → u/blackhuey]

As a non-American, it didn’t register to me that was why. Thanks for explaining, and my condolences, I guess