‘YOU STILL OWE US $1,400’: WOMAN DEPENDENT ON OXYGEN TANK DIES AFTER PROVIDER CUTS OFF ELECTRICITY

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  1. APACHERAT

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    I think you're onto something fmw, likely fake news. The lady didn't have an oxygen tank but likely one of those really expensive high end oxygen concentrators aka oxygen machine that requires electrical power.

    Doesn't Obamacare cover the electricity to operate an oxygen machine ?
    You would think so.

    "If you like your oxygen concentrator...you can keep your oxygen concentrator."
     
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    It was funny. Especially it is - "...and anyone can potentially get into that class."
    In fact, we are talking about a fairly large group - almost the social layer of the old generic elite, about half a million people. And this elite not only sits in banks. I've been giving the official genealogy of the same George Bush - his family has been working closely with the Rockefellers and Voorburgs since the middle of the 19th century. Well, who is George W. Bush? President of the U.S.A. And his brothers are congressmen. And his father was also the President of the United States, and before that the director of the CIA. Those. it's just a new generic aristocracy, leading its "noble" genealogy usually from the middle of the 19th century, whose members hold a controlling stake in the financial world, and in industry, politics, media and special services; in the army. Besides is no other elite in the United States besides them. Those whom you call "other financiers" are a lower social stratum, which has nothing to do with the country's governance system at all. Therefore, no one pays any attention to him - it's just a rich cattle, which differs from poor cattle only in the size house and a car.
     
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    Tanks only last a few hours, so concentrators are far less expensive. If the power company was informed of her medical need, they would not have cut her power.
     
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    You don't really care about this lady and her oxygen being cut off, do you.
     
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    I had read that the power company had been notified of her medical condition. Regardless, who sits there and watches a family member die for lack of electricity? Move her to some place where the power is on or call an ambulance if the situation is desperate.
     
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    Her family should have taken personal responsibility instead of relying on government and others and bought an electrical generator.
     
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    I dont think the company was aware of her medical condition

    I also wonder why the family did not take her into their home?
     
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    In the Greatest State of California
    I get reduced rates for my asthma
    <wheeze> <cough>
    Most people I have mentioned this to do not know of the program

    Could the New Jersey situation be that they did not fill out their forms?


    No Jersey.jpg
    Maybe a law based on the 14th Amendment should require personal contact
    before turning off anyone's utility.

    Why the 14th?
    Because is can be interpreted to mean just about anything, even over turning the Bill of Rights. ;)
     
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    Very true. If they called 911, she would have had the oxygen she needed. If they notified the power company of the situation, they would have never cut the power.

    Instead, they ignored all those big red PAST DUE notices and their neglect has become some kind of a case against capitalism for a certain forum member.
     
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    In America you have to pay for electricity, in communist Russia there's on electricity to pay for.
     
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    Hospice for 2 years? It is meant for terminally ill patients for 6 months. You can extend obviously but 2 years. Sounds like she beat the odds for along time. Sad to die from no power, but she was terminally I'll for 2 years. Just being on hospice means you are in the type of health that you could die at any given moment.

    Also where in New Jersey did this happen? Was the no neighbor that they could have ran an extension cord to? Also being on Hospice would mean you probably had someone else around. When the power company came to pull the meter you think someone would have been able to point to the old lady in the bed and say that power is literally keeping her alive.
     
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    There are a lot of questions about this case. I bet the family members will try to sue someone, either the power company, or the government for not providing her with free electricity, or the taxpayers for not making sure she was taken care of.
     
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    The cause of all the misfortunes is the social and political system. This is the cause of everything. Capitalism is guilty. It is necessary to fight not with symptoms, it is necessary to struggle with illness. And your expressions of sympathy will not help either this woman or any other victims of capitalism.
     
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    Perhaps relatives had no reason to worry, they paid part of the debt. In addition, the law explicitly prohibits the disconnection of such people from electricity, but capitalism is capitalism. Profit by any means,
     
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    Nothing surprising. You should know the main slogan of capitalism - "man is a wolf to man" and "profit at any cost." Read the quote of Marx in the subject.
     
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    We can put dinosaurs in movies son. I’m sure making Moscow look semi first world is easy.
     
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    Humanity has only two ways

    Communism and degradation and the total destruction of humanity

    Or Capitalism with some humanity.


    That's better
     
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    fake news. If she was in hospice she would have ample backup o2 tanks and if she was empty on those hospice would be there in 20 minutes with a new tank. Lets ask the hospice though. Which hospice was it?
     
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    There is no and never was a communist system in Russia.
     
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    You can assume anything, but the fact remains.The woman died in torment
     
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    You are probably a young man, so you are not educated enough. Read Lenin, Marx, Stalin and you will begin to grow wiser
     
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    Again. - You are probably a young man, so you are not educated enough. Read Lenin, Marx, Stalin and you will begin to grow wiser.
    For example, you will begin to understand what capitalism, imperialism, socialism, and communism are, from the point of view of the political and economic formation and socio-political structure of society.

    And further. Links to Wikipedia - mauveton
     
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    I will not argue with you. Maybe this is fake news. If frankly - all Western media - fake media. Even the American president says it.
     

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