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(The Morning Call)   Bad: Stealing $530,000 in insurance payments to buy things like a truck and a skid loader. Fark: The payments were supposed to be for his wife's kidney dialysis   ( mcall.com) divider line
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blatz514 [TotalFark]
2013-05-15 05:21:00 PM  
I'm going to have to know what kind of truck it was before I can be outraged.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-05-15 05:21:36 PM  
But we should totally keep charging people for healthcare instead of providing it as a social service.
 
SpdrJay
2013-05-15 05:45:35 PM  
You can use the skid loader for dialysis if you know what you're doing...
 
nocturn
2013-05-15 05:46:00 PM  

blatz514: I'm going to have to know what kind of truck it was before I can be outraged.


The wife was a smoother ride, but really anything else would have better hauling capability.
 
JohnAnnArbor [TotalFark]
2013-05-15 05:46:52 PM  

nocturn: blatz514: I'm going to have to know what kind of truck it was before I can be outraged.

The wife was a smoother ride, but really anything else would have better hauling capability.


An electric Fiat?
 
StrandedInAZ
2013-05-15 05:47:00 PM  
It's always fun to see my home county on Fark. The stories usually remind me why I left.

Then I see stories about my current location on Fark and realize I haven't done any better by moving here.
 
portnoyd
2013-05-15 05:47:07 PM  
Apparently, this guy got lost on the way to a different article about his untimely demise.

Ba dum tsh.
 
natmar_76
2013-05-15 05:48:35 PM  
I wonder what it's like to live in a place called Kultztown.

/sips kool-aids
 
natmar_76
2013-05-15 05:49:35 PM  
Oh, it's just Kutztown.

That's much better.
 
Brick-House
2013-05-15 05:57:57 PM  
Obamacare
 
you are a puppet
2013-05-15 05:59:15 PM  
Romneycare
 
AbbeySomeone
2013-05-15 05:59:25 PM  
I'll bet she is pissed off.
 
illannoyin
2013-05-15 06:02:49 PM  

AbbeySomeone: I'll bet she is pissed off.


Or, she would be except... Oh! I see what you did there.

/Ermahgerd Berks Cahrnty!
 
MrEricSir
2013-05-15 06:04:49 PM  
TotalFark: Apparently dialysis costs half a million dollars.
 
Mega Steve
2013-05-15 06:05:35 PM  
If only Bones had been there with his magic kidney-growing pills!
 
zepher
2013-05-15 06:08:16 PM  
That would be skip loader, subby.
 
akya [BareFark]
2013-05-15 06:08:52 PM  
The real tragedy here is that dialysis treatment costs $530K.  really? $530K to hook you up to a glorified oil filter?

Looks like I chose the wrong profession.
 
Mentalpatient87
2013-05-15 06:09:07 PM  

blatz514: I'm going to have to know what kind of truck it was before I can be outraged.


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A truck-boat-truck, of course.
 
Cavemankiwi
2013-05-15 06:17:18 PM  
FYI dialysis  costs about $600 per 4 hour treatment. This is needed 3 times a week so the cost is about $1800 per week. 94k a year.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2013-05-15 06:25:04 PM  

Cavemankiwi: FYI dialysis  costs about $600 per 4 hour treatment. This is needed 3 times a week so the cost is about $1800 per week. 94k a year.


False.

Dialysis BILLS YOU $600 per four hour treatment. It has to cost less.
 
Tumunga
2013-05-15 06:26:51 PM  
Shiat, if you're going to get in trouble for something like that, what's the point of having a wife?
 
Gary Coleman's kidneys
2013-05-15 06:28:08 PM  
So did he steal the money before or after she died??
 
Vidwiz
2013-05-15 06:28:28 PM  
Cavemankiwi:FYI dialysis  costs about $600 per 4 hour treatment. This is needed 3 times a week so the cost is about $1800 per week. 94k a year.

Screw that - I would rater die than go thru that crap and money
 
douchebag/hater
2013-05-15 06:32:30 PM  
Have a friend with a daughter who has CP.

About 30 years ago the daughter was getting therapy and my friend took the daughter to rehab facility and they turned them away.

Friend asked 'why?' and was told the bills weren't being paid.

She went to her husband who was in charge paying their bills and asked him what was going on.

He was taking the insurance checks and buying pot - lots and lots of pot - with the money.

And yet she's stayed married to that POS to this day.
 
gja
2013-05-15 07:05:03 PM  

douchebag/hater: Have a friend with a daughter who has CP.

About 30 years ago the daughter was getting therapy and my friend took the daughter to rehab facility and they turned them away.

Friend asked 'why?' and was told the bills weren't being paid.

She went to her husband who was in charge paying their bills and asked him what was going on.

He was taking the insurance checks and buying pot - lots and lots of pot - with the money.

And yet she's stayed married to that POS to this day.


Wow....Just......WOW. He is a POS. And it doesn't matter what the state of healthcare is in the country. That is just unfathomably selfish.
 
DownDaRiver
2013-05-15 07:10:16 PM  
This fits in with:
Give a man a fish he eats for a day.........
Besides, obviously the dialysis was just a temp bandaid and she was doomed to die
With the truck and skip loader he can get on with his life and earn a living
Except the whole jail and restitution thing, that kinds puts his plan in the dumpster
Nice try though
My guess is poor execution
 
SevenizGud
2013-05-15 07:18:12 PM  

doglover: But we should totally keep charging people for healthcare instead of providing it as a social service.


Yeah, and we should totally charge people for food, in spite of the fact that they starve TO DEATH without it. And we should totally charge people for rent/mortgage, in spite of the fact that people will die of exposure without it.

We really should just give everyone everything they ever want, without any cost to them, all subsidized by the FARKing unicorns and pixie dust.
 
thatboyoverthere
2013-05-15 07:45:53 PM  

douchebag/hater: Have a friend with a daughter who has CP.

About 30 years ago the daughter was getting therapy and my friend took the daughter to rehab facility and they turned them away.

Friend asked 'why?' and was told the bills weren't being paid.

She went to her husband who was in charge paying their bills and asked him what was going on.

He was taking the insurance checks and buying pot - lots and lots of pot - with the money.

And yet she's stayed married to that POS to this day.


If my dad did that to us my mom's family would make sure he would never be found.
 
Mistress Jedana
2013-05-15 07:57:59 PM  

MrEricSir: TotalFark: Apparently dialysis costs half a million dollars.


Approximately $450,000 per 6 months for home hemodialysis.

We get statements every month, and the amount just amazes me.

I don't understand why she was getting checks, though.   Our bills go to Medicare and the supplemental.   The only bills we have to pay are the copays, medicine copays and the Part B and supplemental insurance bills.

/Master Jedana is on year 6 of dialysis
/Still in newlywed phase of being on transplant list
//
 
dkimball
2013-05-15 08:14:07 PM  
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy your own machine?
 
wademh [TotalFark]
2013-05-15 08:39:36 PM  

zepher: That would be skip loader, subby.


Depends on the steering.
 
KrispyKritter
2013-05-15 09:22:43 PM  
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TEMPTING
 
MrEricSir
2013-05-15 09:24:11 PM  

Mistress Jedana: Approximately $450,000 per 6 months for home hemodialysis.

We get statements every month, and the amount just amazes me.


If you didn't hear that sound, it was my jaw dropping on the floor. (Note to self: move to Canada before any organs fail.)
 
poison_amy
2013-05-15 11:38:27 PM  
Don't you judge me!


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BarkingUnicorn
2013-05-16 01:36:06 AM  

doglover: Cavemankiwi: FYI dialysis  costs about $600 per 4 hour treatment. This is needed 3 times a week so the cost is about $1800 per week. 94k a year.

False.

Dialysis BILLS YOU $600 per four hour treatment. It has to cost less.


Whatever.  It's cheaper than a decent hooker.
 
The Envoy [TotalFark]
2013-05-16 05:04:25 AM  

SevenizGud: doglover: But we should totally keep charging people for healthcare instead of providing it as a social service.

Yeah, and we should totally charge people for food, in spite of the fact that they starve TO DEATH without it. And we should totally charge people for rent/mortgage, in spite of the fact that people will die of exposure without it.

We really should just give everyone everything they ever want, without any cost to them, all subsidized by the FARKing unicorns and pixie dust.


Derp.
 
wambu
2013-05-16 06:25:18 AM  
Nice to see someone making good use of his wife's infirmity.
 
Day_Old_Dutchie
2013-05-16 06:31:25 AM  
Darwin D. Dieter, 53, of Kempton

Survival of the skinniest.
 
504_King_streetcar
2013-05-16 11:59:12 AM  

MrEricSir: Mistress Jedana: Approximately $450,000 per 6 months for home hemodialysis.

We get statements every month, and the amount just amazes me.

If you didn't hear that sound, it was my jaw dropping on the floor. (Note to self: move to Canada before any organs fail.)


I am sadly a dialysis patient in Canada, and I have paid exactly zilch for the equipment, medication and doctor visits related to that. I have a home dialysis widget plus about 30 boxes of assorted dialysis bits in my apartment and I haven't paid a penny. Unless you count the pennies paid in various taxes hitherto, of course. And that is money well spent. I would rather pay 13% tax on my poutine and get it back later than cough up 900k a year. What evil sadist decided that was a good idea anyway?
"Right, you need to pay 900k a year to live. Haven't got that kind of money? Sucks to be you, I guess. Try not to be born poor next time, poor man."

/Dialysis sucks
//Free dialysis does not suck
 
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