[ccm-l] Employment and benefits manipulations

[Bjorn, Pret]

Nothing further for this witness, Your Honor.  I rest my case.  

 

Pret

 

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Caruso
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [ccm-l] Employment and benefits manipulations

 

Prêt, I beg your pardon.  I have worked in areas that indeed do have such

amenities at home.  How aggravating it is when they present to you the card

that for them fixes everything.  And not have to worry any consequence

what's so ever of there actions.  The "disabled" man or woman that has no

steady job that uses his Mass health card in the EW cause of his "tummy

ache".  And in the end doesn't have to worry about a copy or that his

insurance for family coverage costs 150 dollars a week.

  Honest, Poor working families?  Yeah I know they exist.  They know how to

restrain themselves from buying the latest Motorola razor phone or the play

stations.  Concocting an upside to poverty is not my point.  However, the

next time you see an ambulance pull in to the bay.  Take the folks to the

side and ask them if they have ever heard of such a story that I have

presented.  

      You work in a  big city hospital I assume.  How many times dose this

happen?  Plane load of immigrants lands from the airport.  Give the Triage

nurse something vague that there kids are experiencing like oh, umm

"headache" for instance.  What a coincidence, all of there children have the

same signs and symptoms.  You know as well as I do that they get a warm meal

and a full work up.  

      My Father came here from Italy, made himself a good reputation as a

landscaper.  Not once, EVER did he take a hand-out from the government.  Go

figure!  Didn't speak a lick of English and today owns his own business. I

agree that the 99% may be a bit exaggerated but I'm not way off.