Huh? I thought depression was an illness diagnosed by doctors. Not insurance companies like here in the US who ration health care based on cost. But this is Canada, land of health care milk and honey. Huh?
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que., for the last year and a half after she was diagnosed with major depression. The Eastern Townships woman was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from Manulife, her insurance company, but the payments dried up this fall. When Blanchard called Manulife, the company said that “I’m available to work, because of Facebook,” she told CBC News this week.
She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on the popular social networking site, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sun holiday — evidence that she is no longer depressed, Manulife said. Blanchard said she notified Manulife that she was taking a trip, and she’s shocked the company would investigate her in such a manner and interpret her photos that way.
“In the moment I’m happy, but before and after I have the same problems” as before, she said.
Blanchard said that on her doctor’s advice, she tried to have fun, including nights out at her local bar with friends and short getaways to sun destinations, as a way to forget her problems.
She also doesn’t understand how Manulife accessed her photos because her Facebook profile is locked and only people she approves can look at what she posts.
How can this be? If you listen to all the liberaltards , Canadian health care is the best in the world……LMAO
Pelosi said they were voting for jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Unemployment keeps rising. All they are talking about is “health care”. Obama promised jobs would arrive soon. That was earlier this year. With no jobs people will be dropping like flies pretty soon due to the stresses of having no food and no jobs. These deaths will save trillions as the government will pay less in unemployment insurance and less in health care as pine boxes are cheap. Is this the change you wanted? Well, that’s what you’re getting. For the first time in my life I will be going to get a free Thanksgiving dinner as I have virtually no money. The ONLY thing that matters currently is EMPLOYING AMERICANS. RECALL ALL OF THESE LIARS. Obama and friends can’t even get it’s recovery.gov site right at $18 million dollars spent for a web site. The 20 new employed web site geeks get massive bonuses while even video stores are closing stores in small communities, more lost jobs, lost jobs, lost jobs, lost jobs, and more lost jobs, what the hell is wrong with these idiots babbling on about health care. 85% of the public has it. 7% doesn’t want it. 8% can be insured with a few tweaks, not dumping it all down the toilet.
#19 Kudos for your example. That’s how it is.
100% of Canadians are covered by govt health care isurance. Supplemental insurance i.e. dental, prescription drugs, disability etc are provided by private insurers either thru employer, group or individual purchase – that is what is at issue here, NOT govt health insurance… why is that so difficult to understand?
You shouldn’t even be talking about the Cnadian Health system…
Study France’s System, arguably the best in the world. Or Nordic countries Systems. Real Health care, for the People.
Um Caveat Emptor?
FWIW: i was recently asked by two separate potential clients of small companies (less than 30-though I suspect one might have been asking on behalf of a city agency) as to how they could do bulk scans on facebook accounts to see what, if at all, their employees are “doing” there..
Take heed:
An ear to the ground on this revealed there is a **huge surge** by companies and employers of all sorts and sizes to invade the “privacy” of facebook. (and i use the term privacy with tongue-in-cheek)
They are looking for *any* activity which could possibly “harm the company” or portray them in a bad light.
My translation: Facebook just may end up as the loophole companies need to fire “troublesome” employees while at the same time, effectively shielding
themselves from every company’s greatest fear: “discrimination” lawsuits.
(which imo, are abused to hell)
I declined to offer any help other than to “seek council” as I am big on constitutional right to privacy. -even when said privacy is an “illusion”
-s
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Ridiculous. I used to date a girl who was outright nuts, obsessive/compulsive, bipolar. Her mood swings were amazing to watch.
You would never know from her facebook page, she looks happy and normal!
I’ve read several news articles and researched for additional details before coming to a conclusion.
I’m sorry to say this, but it sounds like to me that this woman is just lazy. Anyone who really had a depression [or other mental] problem would NOT be posting photos on facebook, much less continuing to post photos on facebook. This whole “I have a depression problem” is just one that ANYONE can fake.
Now as for the argument of how facebook profiles should have been locked and private… there is NO such thing as keeping things “safe” and locked on the net. ANYTHING that gets posted or sent [yes that includes EMAIL] through the net STAYS on the net. I’ve known this simple FACT for years.
As for the insurance company being “in the wrong” to snoop and discontinue her benefits… I’m sorry, but they have every right to know if someone is handing them a line a sh!t just to get free money out of the deal. There ARE people out there who REALLY do need and deserve to have health insurance, but don’t get it because of individuals like this woman who make it bad for everyone else. I commend the insurance company for buckling down and I wish that other leeching individuals would get caught and cut off too.
Bottom line: it doesn’t pay to be a thief, liar, lazy, money moocher. Let this be a lesson for anyone who thinks it’s ok to suck on the system while others pay their hard earned money for it. IBM would be wise to not allow the woman to come back to the job. Instead, they should tell her to take a hike, as this story I’m sure will have some sort of bad reflection on the corporation. If this woman is capable of going to a beach weekly and capable of going to night clubs to see male dancers, then she’s most certainly capable of working a normal job like a normal human being.
Don’t feel sorry for con artists. They’re good at sucking people dry of their money.
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