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Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance
No. 24601 writes "A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave, due to a diagnosis of depression, lost her health benefits after her insurance provider found photos of her on Facebook smiling and looking cheerful at parties and out on the beach. Besides all the obvious questions, how did the insurance company access her locked Facebook profile?"
I guess she's feeling pretty depressed right now. Does that mean she can have the insurance back?
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"Yet another reason why private healthcare must be stopped." That's a reason to destroy the greatest healthcare system in the free world? Where are mod points when you need them.
Mod Me Up. You'll make a grown man cry.
Nah, probably it was a female "friend" that handed her pictures to the insurance company.
That reminded me of a joke where a man calls every of his wife's female friends, asking each one if she had slept over with them, and receives the same "no, not here" answer. Another night the reverse happens, and the wife call's every of her husband male friends. Everyone answer "yes, he was here all night" and five of them even responds "he's still here, in the bathroom"! :-)
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I'm more interested in knowing how a picture of someone smiling invalidates an insurance claim for depression?
* Miserable people can smile and look cheerful
* Miserable people can go to the beach
* People suffering from atypcial depression (Most people who suffer from depression do, despite the name) CAN actually be cheerful, and still be suffering from the illness.
Last medical history I gave didn't involve facebook. It isn't a medical diagnostic tool.
I'm outraged - and I'm not going to read the article in case it explains these points satisfactorily.
Me: Doc, Do I have rectal Cancer?
Doc: Email me a pic so I can tell.
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To: Doc
Subject: Rectal diagnosis photo
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Here you go.
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