Was informed one of my co-workers died today

[TwixVoy]

Our store manager called us all to a meeting suddenly today to inform us that one of our employees died suddenly yesterday of a heart problem.

I was her direct supervisor. I remember her speaking to me two weeks ago about the health care plans. She got this job so that she could get health insurance. (which all regular employees are eligible for after six months with a certain number of hour being worked) I went over the options for her, and told her how she could go about getting the benefits paper. I remember her telling me that she was going to sign up ASAP because she hadn't been feeling well and couldn't wait to go to the doctor.

She would have been eligible to sign up this week. I can't help but wonder if she would still be here if she would have been able to have health care earlier.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. oh no...... :^( This is just criminal. One of the hallmarks of everything that

is wrong with our health "care" system.

I am so sorry.

[BlooInBloo]

2. :(((((

[lonestarnot]

3. bushitlers murdered her too! Serial fucking killers!

[rurallib]

4. At least 20,000 and maybe as many as 80,000 Americans die each year

due to lack of health care. To me that make GDub a first class terrorist.
I heard a stat the other day on DemocracyNow! that at any given time 120,000,000 Americans are either uninsured or underinsured. The huge deductibles inhibit folks from seeing doctors until they are damn near dead.
But Repugs and their toady media have been able to turn this election to the important issues of William Ayers and Rev. Wright.
When you work for Obama this year, think of your co-worker. She may have lived another decade or more in nearly any other developed country.
Edit to add - dedicate this election to her memory.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. You didn't tell her to go to the ER anyway?

YOu don't need insurance for that.

[Breeze54]

6. You know she'd still be here if she had care and didn't have to wait SIX months!

:grr:

Bush sucks and the GOP sucks and the DLC/DINO's suck!!

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Another person murdered by our lack of health care system.

:grr:

[Cerridwen]

8. With all due respect to the political angle of this, how are YOU?!

Yeah, "just" a co-worker, I know. But still feels...weird.

How you doing?

Don't have to answer. Just my own concern projected on to you.

I hope you're okay.

And yeah, the political angle sucks.

[undeterred]

9. I had a friend that died of cancer several years ago..

She was going through a divorce and lost her health insurance that way. She had abdominal pain. She had visited the doctor but didn't have a thorough workup because of the no insurance situation and she didn't want to pay for tests like an ultrasound. A few months into this I moved to another state. The next thing I heard she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 2 months later she died. She was 42 and it was shocking.

I will always wonder if her life would have been saved if she'd had a full workup when she first had symptoms.

[Hekate]

10. I wouldn't move to a Third World nation, so it came to me...

Christ on a Trailer Hitch, I am so sorry. :cry:

Hekate

[Kitty Herder]

11. That's tragic! I'm so sorry.

We MUST demand single-payer in this country. We can't continue to see people die for lack of health insurance. That's murder by the state.