Posted on 10/10/2014 11:37:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The 33-year-old freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia is fighting for his life at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this week. He’s also racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
According to a GoFundMe campaign launched Monday by his friends, Ashoka Mukpo’s medical bills could run in excess of $500,000.
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Despite the strange sounding name, this guy is an American. I do like the idea of raising funds this way == every cent voluntarily given. It won’t work for everyone, but he is a rather interesting and popular man.
That was going to be my question. If he is American why doesn’t he have insurance....Obamacare?
No. In law, the only thing that survives are debts owed by you.
I paid for the funeral expenses since they were my responsibility.
I thank God that I wasn’t crippled by debt. $500,000 is not something most people have on hand.
He did have travelers’ insurance. But it didn’t cover outbreaks and epidemics. So he was screwed when he came home.
In the end, charity care will probably pick up what private donations can’t cover.
I payed all my Mom’s bills after she died. I don’t know why people think they can just let that go. Does anyone wonder why hospital bills are so high when we have a bunch of losers not paying for their families responsibilities. It is repulsive. No wonder Democrats are getting more and more in charge of morals. Even conservatives have become thieves.
I know Mukpo is American...... I was comparing him to the Liberian scamsters/parasites/idiots who are not paying one red cent BUT are going to be be suing over racist hospital care for Ebola Guy who expired anyway
My version was a more logical sequence of events than reality. Sounds like the Buddhist guy was more than decent, adopting a son with whom she became pregnant due to an affair. Then she divorced him. What a gem.
He’s a freelancer, an independent contractor, not an employee of the network.
Obama should just pay it out of his stash.
And well they may. I was just stating fact.
I was really impressed.
About a year later, a clerk at the local post office gave me an envelope addressed to my uncle. When my uncle had passed, I filled out a forwarding order to have his mail sent to me. That forwarding order had expired, so by rights the post office should have returned the mail to sender, but since I was at the post office and the clerk was a friend, I asked for the mail.
It was a bill from the ambulance service. There is a rule that insurance claims mist be submitted no later than one year from the date of service. The ambulance service waited too long, so its claim was denied and now the ambulance service was trying to collect from my uncle.
Family members thought the bill should have been paid anyway, but I said ________ them. The company didn't listen to me and waited too long to resubmit, so tough tookies.
By the way, said ambulance service later got into trouble over alleged Medicare fraud. Another ambulance service has taken its place.
You are right. It is very bizarre.
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