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Restaurant owner sells business to pay brain tumour surgery bill for his teenage waitress
UK Mirror ^ | Jan 9, 2014 | Rebecca Pocklington

Posted on 01/10/2014 4:45:07 PM PST by Innovative

Brittany Mathis can't afford the operation because she doesn't have health insurance, so her boss Michael De Beyer is selling his Texas eatery

Brittany Mathis, 19, was diagnosed with the small tumour in December but can't afford surgery to remove it because she doesn't have health insurance.

Manager and boss Michael De Beyer has offered to sell his Kaiserhof Restaurant in Montgomery, Texas, which he has run for 17 years, to help his employee out.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: charity; healthinsurance; obamacare; pricetag; restaurant; texas
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To: GeronL

Agreed, we’d see something along those lines.


61 posted on 01/10/2014 5:50:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: El Cid

You just might have something there. It is possible that I am projecting my thoughts and presumptions into others. The possibility does exist.


62 posted on 01/10/2014 5:57:42 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Innovative

God bless Texas.


63 posted on 01/10/2014 6:00:01 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: Innovative
I don't understand why she isn't applying/getting obamacare coverage, after all it is supposed to cover preexisting conditions and she would certainly qualify for subsidy.... /??

Because she'll either DIE waiting for treatment under Obamacare, or she'll get a butcher for a doctor who'll end up killing her on the table, because that's the only kind of doctor who'll accept Obamacare.

64 posted on 01/10/2014 6:01:08 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: BitWielder1

Speaking of liberals...

I twas so cold last week, liberals had their hands in their OWN POCKETS!!!!


65 posted on 01/10/2014 6:01:51 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I did not find a St. Judge’s hospital in Houston.


66 posted on 01/10/2014 6:03:13 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella

sounds like you’re in Conroe
By the way his eatery has been for sale for a few years. I hope he’s not using her plight to sell his business.


67 posted on 01/10/2014 6:08:24 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: Marcella

St Judes is in Memphis, TN.


68 posted on 01/10/2014 6:10:31 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Innovative

I don’t know all of the details, but I would think this girl and her family would qualify for medicaid. I don’t understand why they have not applied or tried to seek some type of welfare for health care...


69 posted on 01/10/2014 6:11:04 PM PST by martinidon
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“St Judes is in Memphis, TN.”

Exactly. From what I know of St. Judes over many years of advertising, it’s a hospital/research facility for children with cancer in another state, not Texas.


70 posted on 01/10/2014 6:17:24 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Misterioso

No. You may have missed the point that he’s doing what he wants with his own assets. That’s freedom. Did you miss that point?


71 posted on 01/10/2014 6:20:58 PM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Somebody pissed in his cornflakes for sure


72 posted on 01/10/2014 6:24:29 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: gettinolder

What a country...The help gets ill and it takes the boss selling his business to help her with the medical bills..

Just goes to show ya how totally out of touch medical costs and expenses have become.

You’d think the local hospital or churches would have ate the bill.


73 posted on 01/10/2014 6:25:50 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: right way right

These comments almost makes me wish I did not open the article.


74 posted on 01/10/2014 6:28:15 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: driftdiver

> Leftie media headline - Business owner closes business to keep from providing healthcare insurance for workers with brain tumors.

You know it.


75 posted on 01/10/2014 6:39:19 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Marcella

Can she not travel?


76 posted on 01/10/2014 6:51:14 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Innovative

I agree. it would seem like obammacare would help her out here?


77 posted on 01/10/2014 6:51:52 PM PST by rawhide
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To: Innovative

78 posted on 01/10/2014 6:53:21 PM PST by rawhide
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To: lee martell

Not if you’re simply following Jesus commandments.


79 posted on 01/10/2014 7:25:47 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Innovative

Now that’s a great idea, with subsidies it would only cost her $450.00/month but she would be responsible for the first $25,000.00 if the death panel permits the surgery and she can find a hospital within a 600 mile radius.


80 posted on 01/10/2014 7:26:51 PM PST by chiefqc
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