Longtime Company Worker Loses Job, Insurance During Health Crisis

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Run time: 02:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psKNY9bG48M   Posted on YouTube: September 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: wtaetv Views on YouTube: 19   Posted on DU: September 06, 2011 By DU Member: DianaForRussFeingold Views on DU: 612

 
"Zelienople resident Jim Young said he felt like family working at direct mail company MSP in Freedom, but that he's feeling anything but after he was told he's being laid off in the middle of a health crisis."

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1. We need to start a writing campaign to this company

This is the future that ALL of us are facing, oh, unless you are a Senator, Congressman, or other high ranking politician when the TAXPAYERS foot the bill.

This country is f**ked.

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2. 'Adding comments has been disabled for this video"...WONDER WHY?

the google corporate world does not like it when folks dis corporations!

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. I agree, but corporations are people, too!

:banghead: I feel so bad for what happened to him-he is 58-so unfair!

This is the latest article I found;

"Zelienople resident Jim Young said he felt like family working at direct mail company MSP in Freedom, but that he's feeling anything but after he was told he's being laid off in the middle of a health crisis.

Young, 58, said he was hoping to return to the company by October after contracting Vasculitis and going on short-term disability, but found out Tuesday that he no longer has a job come Thursday.

Young said the company is giving him $500 in severance pay, but is taking $400 of that back to cover his health insurance for September.

"I think it's pitiful for someone to work 25 years for a company and get $500 and get $400 of it taken back from you," said Young.

Young told Van Osdol that he's been taken multiple medications for his disease and that he's not sure how he'll pay for them or his $1,000 per month health insurance premium."

"I'm probably going to end up selling my house," he said."


--"Van Osdol contacted MSP president Richard Bushee, who said, "I'll personally look into this issue to make sure he's being treated fairly. He's like family to us."

Young told Van Osdol he thought he was like family, "but evidently not."

Pennsylvania previously offered adultBasic, a low-cost health plan for people in situations like Young, but the program has since been eliminated.

The Federal government was subsidizing health insurance for the unemployed, but that program also ended on Wednesday.

Young said he's hoping to qualify for Social Security disability, but that can take six months or longer to get through the bureaucracy."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44350607/ns/local_news-pittsburgh_pa/t/longtime-company-worker-loses-job-insurance-during-health-crisis/#.TmdpsOywUZg