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Woman Gets Doctor's Note To Show Social Security She's Alive [Govt says she's dead]
KIRO 7 ^ | 12/20/2007

Posted on 12/23/2007 7:27:55 AM PST by Clint Williams

Not allowed to post article: Essence of it -- Social Security declared a woman to be dead, cut off her checks, her bank closed her account, and she won't know until next month whether she has been re-instated or not. Social security says these mistakes do occur.

Just the kind of folks you want in charge of your healthcare...


TOPICS: Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: socialsecurity; ssa

1 posted on 12/23/2007 7:27:58 AM PST by Clint Williams
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To: Clint Williams
“Just the kind of folks you want in charge of your healthcare...”

That is one of my thoughts.... yeah, mistakes do happen, BUT some things should not happen AND be dismissed lightly!

2 posted on 12/23/2007 7:38:24 AM PST by elpinta (Tagline temporarily out of service)
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To: Clint Williams
This reminds me of another story in which a family said their husband / dad died and they burned his body to continue receiving his SS checks. This went on for some years.

I always wondered if he really died or was killed. That question seemed irrelevant to everyone else.

3 posted on 12/23/2007 7:38:51 AM PST by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: Clint Williams

Just another undocumented citizen.


4 posted on 12/23/2007 7:44:35 AM PST by DaveyB (Ignorance is part of the human condition - atheism makes it permanent!)
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To: Clint Williams; All

Reminds me of this email detailing supposely actual court testimony:

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.


5 posted on 12/23/2007 7:48:37 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: Clint Williams

Maybe one of the other people using her number died.


6 posted on 12/23/2007 7:51:57 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Clint Williams

Well if she’s dead then she cannot be incarcerated. With a defense like that the things I could do. ;-)

“Your honor my client pleads not guilty. His alibi is iron clad. He was dead at the time of the crime.”


7 posted on 12/23/2007 7:52:16 AM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Clint Williams

So, if Social Security has declared her dead will Medicare pay for the doctor visit to confirm she is alive?

Paging Dr. Kafka...


8 posted on 12/23/2007 7:54:42 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: Clint Williams

If Necro-Americans can vote, why can’t they draw Social-Security?


9 posted on 12/23/2007 7:57:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Clint Williams
I wonder if her doctor was related to Doc Daneeka?
10 posted on 12/23/2007 8:04:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Clint Williams
Postable source:

Pasco woman goes to doctor to show Social Security she is alive

11 posted on 12/23/2007 8:08:39 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

If Necro-Americans can vote, why can’t they draw Social-Security?

only necro-american lib/dems get to vote!!!!


12 posted on 12/23/2007 8:10:51 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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To: nyyankeefan

Once they go Necro, they all vote Democrat.


13 posted on 12/23/2007 8:14:05 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: Clint Williams

We got a call sort of like that from the credit union at our prior duty station. One of the credit bureaus had mixed my record up with that of my father, and declared me dead. The credit union was calling to determine what she wanted done with the accounts. She was amazed when a dead person answered the phone.

Then the trials began trying to get the credit bureau to believe I was not my father...


14 posted on 12/23/2007 8:18:41 AM PST by Starwolf
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To: Clint Williams

Same thing happened to my Father-in-law. It took a nearly a year for SS to clear it up, after calling Senator and Congressman several times and he finally died before they finally reinstated him. Then it took several months for them to get the message that he actually died a year later. The illegal immigration will really screw things up.


15 posted on 12/23/2007 8:46:51 AM PST by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If Necro-Americans can vote, why can’t they draw Social-Security?

*ouch!*

Remember the "niggardly" syndrome...

16 posted on 12/23/2007 3:52:16 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Clint Williams

Well she could play that up with the IRS: pay taxes? I’m not alive!!


17 posted on 12/23/2007 10:19:08 PM PST by OnRightOnLeftCoast (Not to be confused with similar-name pirate RightOnLeftCoast)
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To: Publius6961

Hey, some of my best friends are Necro-Americans. Okay, if you insist, “respirationally challenged”, “viability challenged”, or simply “dead”.


18 posted on 12/24/2007 7:38:23 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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