"UPDATE 4-5-2012"
My son Sam was shot two times with a 9MM pistol while working at a CVS pharmacy in Tampa and has been thrown away like trash by state legislators in Florida and CVS pharmacy. Sam lives in constant pain and unable to walk from this shooting.
People "catastrophically" injured at work do not have a choice to use their own insurance and must use workers compensation when catastrophically injured. Insurance companies or private companies big enough can and will choose the primary doctor for you. They can hire or fire any doctor seen at any time to whom they want, not the doctor needed. Florida Law allows this since changes in 2003 to fix the abuse by those faking accidents, (this was applied to the catastrophically injured also). An amendment was introduced this year but failed to get support from state legislators. Apparently this issue will not change as legislators follow money. Please contact your State Senator and State Representative to change Florida's law for those classified as catastrophically injured at work to be able to choose their own health provider at any time for people like Sam.
This website below will assist you to find your state representatives email address and who your Senator/State Representative is:
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Something you can never imagine...
My son was shot twice while working at a CVS pharmacy then discarded by CVS as Florida law allows. Please read below and help by informing others. See the links below for more information.
You're reading this because one night my son called from work and said in a quiet tired voice, "Pops I've been SHOT, I Love You!"
Sam was working part time at a CVS store in Tampa. He had just finished working his full time second shift job and suddenly he was brutally shot two times just after starting his shift at CVS during a robbery. Sam is bound in a wheelchair now and struggles daily with pain. The rest is the worst of the story.
Look below...CVS used a terrible tragedy just 10 months after Sam was shot to try and stop this website.
With my wife Maria about to die and Sam in a convalescent home, CVS contacted Sam and threatened him. CVS threatened to make it harder for Sam if this website didn't stop! (I was asking all for prayer on Facebook moments before Maria was supposed to die from a terrible bacterial infection) A CVS attorney thought that would be a good vulnerable time to get the family to stop online information about their dark closet of what kind of problems Sam had with them! A letter was written and excerpts from that letter is shown below.
Being brutally shot at work, the state of Florida allows companies like CVS to treat Sam how they want. It is time to change the law for those catastrophically injured at work. CVS limits Sam's access to doctor's, has made Sam wait months for surgery, all because lawmakers have allowed this through changes in law. CVS has changed Sam's doctor THREE times for their benefit! When my son struggles for each breathe of air in pain. Sleepless nights taking pain killers and just left in the dark is just plain wrong!
Watch the videos below, the first YOUTUBE video I made is about Sam's shooting and trying to get CVS to pay for surgery. They sent him home without wheelchair access. Sam had excellent health insurance at his full time job but Florida law says he can't use it. He has to depend on CVS for his health care, or what health care they will supply. Sam is now living from a wheelchair from the shooting and in the same pain as he was when he was shot. Another sad part is that only CVS can do more for him legally, and believe me, they won't!
St Petersburg Time Aug 7, 2011
YOUTUBE of Sam's Injury
FOX 13 News March 1st
Change These Laws
In a meeting with my State Representative, Ed Hooper, I asked why he voted to make Workers Comp worse when he knew as a Fire Chief in his previous career that this affected the catastrophically injured like Sam? Across from his desk he told me that Larry Cretul, Speaker of the House from Ocala had called him and told him that any bill he tries to pass will not make it out of the committee if he didn't vote the way he did for the Workers Comp bill. Then, as God as my witness, he said that Larry Cretul received $8,000,000.00 privately for making people like Sam suffer. I've sent Larry Cretul return receipt mail but have had no response. How can anyone make people like Sam go through this for their personal gain and still receive part of my earnings in taxes as I watch my son suffer?
FOLKS, intelligent people know that if you fall from a 10 story building or shot twice like my son and still alive, this is not a fake accident. People injured like this are clarified by the state of Florida as catastrophically injured and are grouped as such when the injury occurs. Below you will see what politicians have done to make people like Sam be in the situation he is now:
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"The employer can change your doctor at will"
(I wonder who they would choose)
"The injured has a ONE TIME LIFETIME change of doctor"
"Only a handful of doctors can be used"
"If you need an operation, it must be approved by the employer before it occurs"
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Only our Florida state lawmakers can fix this, they created it. The state of Florida sat back when Sam had no access to a toilet. They sat back when surgery was needed to see if the pain could be resolved so I created a video to make the public aware, (he had the surgery to no avail). Many catastrophically injured people kill themselves because of their treatment. Please contact your law maker - I am father doing what a father should do, do what you should do for yourself and as a citizen and contact your politicians! I'll help you, contact me at gene.mcginnis@gmail.com
There is a simple fix to this problem folks. Catastrophically injured workers need help as their injuries take their voice. Florida politicians need to change workers comp to have a "TWO TIER SYSTEM". If you are "CATASTROPHICALLY" injured, open the resources of the medical community for help. Watch the video and the local FOX news story below then please sign the petition website. This could be your child, spouse, parent having this issue!
"BECAUSE ITS WRONG"
Sam is going to need another surgery or procedure as new procedures become available. At a convenience store in Pennsylvania I saw a donation jar to help a young man go to California to have stem cell surgery. If I did this for my son, he would lose the rest of his insurance for the rest of his life.
St Petersburg Time Aug 7, 2011
FOX 13 News March 1st
YOUTUBE of Sam's Injury
YOUTUBE from Local High School Student
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