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Fifty thousand General Motors retirees face destruction of benefits

Interview with a former New Jersey auto worker
By Lawrence Porter and David Walsh
17 July 2009

The bankruptcy of General Motors, and the organization of a “newâ€

Fifty thousand General Motors retirees face destruction of benefits

Interview with a former New Jersey auto worker
By Lawrence Porter and David Walsh
17 July 2009

The bankruptcy of General Motors, and the organization of a “newâ€

"My wife has rheumatoid arthritis and asthma. She was young, 40 years old, when she was diagnosed with it. That was twenty years ago. She has been on every kind of medication there is. The latest one is often given to cancer patients and people who have transplants.

She started it two weeks ago, and it costs $1,600 a month. Not including her other medicines. With the medicine I take—I have heart disease—our costs for medication alone are $2,400 a month. And that doesn’t include doctor’s bills.

I also care for my mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. She was in a nursing home, but I couldn’t leave her there. I’ve cared for her for three years, and also my wife’s two brothers for the last six years. They’re legally blind and totally deaf."

Here are five people who will be of "no value" if Dumbama's health plan goes through. They will get the "counseling" required by the health plan wherein it will be explanied to them how to "end their lives."

"My wife has rheumatoid arthritis and asthma. She was young, 40 years old, when she was diagnosed with it. That was twenty years ago. She has been on every kind of medication there is. The latest one is often given to cancer patients and people who have transplants.

She started it two weeks ago, and it costs $1,600 a month. Not including her other medicines. With the medicine I take—I have heart disease—our costs for medication alone are $2,400 a month. And that doesn’t include doctor’s bills.

I also care for my mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. She was in a nursing home, but I couldn’t leave her there. I’ve cared for her for three years, and also my wife’s two brothers for the last six years. They’re legally blind and totally deaf."

Here are five people who will be of "no value" if Dumbama's health plan goes through. They will get the "counseling" required by the health plan wherein it will be explanied to them how to "end their lives."