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New York City couple leaps to their death because they 'can't afford' health care
Aol.com ^ | July 28th 2017 | Alex Lasker

Posted on 08/01/2017 3:59:33 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: baltimorepoet

Selfish people who would leave children without parents. Nothing in this article tells me otherwise


21 posted on 08/01/2017 4:36:04 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: baltimorepoet

You win todays FRprize !!


22 posted on 08/01/2017 4:36:32 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: Ennis85

Socialism sucks for the middle class, doesn’t it.


23 posted on 08/01/2017 4:46:55 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: baltimorepoet

As/they passed the fifh floor,so far so good.


24 posted on 08/01/2017 4:49:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Ennis85

Another web page said they did not mention health care insurance in their suicide note. They were in debt up to their eyeballs for other things, and this was the reason for taking a flying leap.


25 posted on 08/01/2017 4:49:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Hope they were democrats.


26 posted on 08/01/2017 4:50:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: MeganC

I read this story on 7-29 as the author was one of their patients and a good friend

https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/my-chiropractor-and-his-wife-just-jumped-to-their-deaths-in-new-york?utm_campaign=Best+of+IrishCentral+-+2017-07-29&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Mailjet

Very sad story


27 posted on 08/01/2017 4:50:21 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Ennis85

Perhaps they did the world a very, very big favor.

They were literally insane, for one.


28 posted on 08/01/2017 4:53:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: baltimorepoet

Gravity....? ::shaking head::


29 posted on 08/01/2017 4:55:08 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Ennis85

Hope the children sue Obama .... if the high rent district people can’t afford healthcare then they should sue the perp!


30 posted on 08/01/2017 4:55:54 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Ennis85

So, how were they connected the the Clintons, Obama or the DNC?


31 posted on 08/01/2017 5:06:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Climate Change: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives and the gravy train that never ends.)
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To: Ennis85

If they voted for Obama, they got what they voted for.


32 posted on 08/01/2017 5:07:09 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Bonemaker

NYC? The chances are good.


33 posted on 08/01/2017 5:07:45 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Ennis85

Why the hell would you kill yourself because you think you can’t afford health insurance?

This makes no sense. You don’t need health insurance in America to get health care.


34 posted on 08/01/2017 5:08:53 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: Ennis85
A posting from a couple days ago with some 160 comments if
anyone cares to scan thru it.

Couple caught in ‘financial spiral’ jump to their deaths

35 posted on 08/01/2017 5:10:23 PM PDT by deport
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To: Ennis85

Did they not realize they were killing people who cannot afford health insurance.


36 posted on 08/01/2017 5:12:13 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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They had serious debt, tax and financial problems going back nearly 2 decades.

It wasn’t only about current expenses, though obviously they reached the end of their tether. It’s difficult to believe they could not find a better path forward. Move, downsize, regroup.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739512/New-York-couple-commit-suicide-financial-spiral.html


37 posted on 08/01/2017 5:13:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“I don’t get why liberals are so upset with this. They usually like death.”

Calling former Congressman Alan Grayson! Here ya go Alan, these people took you up on you notion that we need to “die quickly.”


38 posted on 08/01/2017 5:28:44 PM PDT by vette6387
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"...But they still managed to sent their two schools to private school, at the elite Loyola School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Tuition at the Jesuit-run Catholic school is $8,905 for the current year. Both parents were active supporters of the school while the children attended it, taking part in organizing its annual benefit gala..."

And this:

"...They also asked their their children, 20-year-old Isabella and 19-year-old Joseph, be taken care of. Public records showed that Glenn owed about $213,000 to the federal government and nearly $42,000 to the state in unpaid taxes dating back to 2003.."

I would ask these questions:

1.) During this time frame where they owed all this money, did they eat out at nice restaurants, buy lavish gifts for each other and their children, buy new cars, and take vacations?

2.) Did they ever attempt to downsize their living arrangements?

2.) When was the onset of their medical problems?

If they didn't forego gifts to themselves and others, purchased new cars, sent their kids to private schools, stopped taking vacations, etc. then this isn't about the cost of healthcare, it is about people living beyond their means.

39 posted on 08/01/2017 5:28:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: Ennis85

Obama’s fault.


40 posted on 08/01/2017 5:38:18 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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