Jack Welch:" GE Healthcare Plan Doesn’t Cover Clean Needles"

[KoKo]

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Posted by Bess Levin, Oct 07, 2009, 10:22am

jackwelch.jpgYesterday we shared the joyous news that Jack Welch had made it home after a harrowing 92 days in the hospital spent battling a staph infection. Today he sat down with Fortune to discuss how he’s feeling and plans for the future. First off, he’s doing great and predicts he’ll be in “fighting shape” within three months. Second, for those of you wondering why your tuition check for the Jack Welch (Online) MBA Institute was cashed months back but you’ve yet to receive a log-in or confirmation of a seat in Professor Bartiromo’s tutorial “Suck it, Trebek,” remain calm. Jack says “there was a delay of game but the school is going to launch in January.” So that’s all nice to hear but what we really wanted to know was how J-Dubs landed in the hospital in the first place, with an infection so bad newspapers were preparing his obituary. What was the source of the staph? Welch has a theory.

The infection, which Welch thinks was caused by a dirty needle from a cortisone shot he took to help him play golf, not only spread through his spine, but also to his artificial right shoulder, which had to be surgically cleaned out.

Oh, dirty needles, sure, ship shape, the interviewer must’ve thought, not pressing this one further. We, however, are not satisfied. Why doesn’t the former GE chairman have access to clean needles? Is he visiting doctors whose offices are located in shady back alleys? Is the “cortisone shot for golf” bit cover for the real story, which is “I’ve been recreationally shooting smack with Larry Kudlow for years and sometimes you catch a bad pricker”? Is this considered normal is Jackie’s circles? Par for the course? Is this going to be addressed on his next Squawk Box appearance? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

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[avaistheone1]

1. Gee Jack...with all your megamillions from offshoring American jobs overseas couldn't you have paid

for a clean needle for yourself?

If a guy like you can't pay for clean needles what chance do we have if we were in the same predicament?

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, what third world country did he go to

for an unnecessary cortisone shot to improve his golf game?

That's really the question that needs to be asked.

There are a lot of clinics operating in Mexico that will do questionable things for rich Yankees. Other countries are the same. Because they're not mainstream hospitals with reputations to uphold, they often have slipshod practices along with the questionable treatments.

Was that three months in the hospital worth it, Jack? How many strokes was it going to shave off your score?

[KoKo]

3. 92 Days in Hospital at "death's door" and he doesn't come out for Health Insurance for All?

Man got paid for all kinds of expenseive anti-biotics and "top of the line doctors" and who knows else catering to him to help him live.

Would the rest of us ever hope to get this kind of care? Would they have considered us "hopeless" and advised our families there was "little or no hope" and asked us to "pull the plug?"

The lack of MSM coverage of this is appalling. Jack Welch on his deathbead...not knowing if he'd make it STILL will NOT COME OUT FOR HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS.

These are the kinds of people who consider themselves the ENTITLED...and the rest of us are just dog food...who deserve nothing but to be ground up in a factory or under their Corporate Jackboots...

:-(

[avaistheone1]

4. I bet a 92 day stay costs about $250,000+

A quarter million dollars!!!

How many health care plans are going to allow the average Joe to stay in the hospital with a staph infection for 92 days and rack up that kind of bill? I think very, very few, and only for the special wealthy people like Jack Welch.

[KoKo]

5. Very few..and only for those at the "TOP." For sure... n/t

[The Second Stone]

6. Nope, I spent 16 days in the hospital last year

and the value of the hospital bills, at a public hospital for those 16 days was $360,000 including my surgery at a cool quarter mil. That is what they would have charged a private patient. I had insurance for the surgery part and the insurer was only charged $22,000.