Woman sues Match.com for $10 million

[TheMadMonk]

243. And she "chose" to get born in a first world country...

...with a you gets what yous pays for attitude to EVERYTHING that can possibly be assigned a dollar value, including basic education and medical care that is taken for granted anywhere else in the developed world. You get what you can afford or you do without.

Guaranteed health care (apart from trauma treatment, which you'll still have to cough up for later if at all possible.) in America is bugger all different to whats on offer in deepest darkest Africa. Immunisation. FFS they have better access to treatments for endemic parasitic diseases.

No disrespect to Ms Beckman for her "choice" of birthplace. All disrespect to a birthplace that holds to an attitude of "Shit happens. You die unless you can afford to live.

And you admit it yourself. THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. And your "charitable contribution" (if it ever were truly charitable) is now being openly used to game back. Settling out of court, is rapidly morphing into a contractual prior agreement to submit to some form of binding mediation rather than litigation.

There is an ever increasing list of billable services which will be refused unless you absolve the provider. Not to mention that the things for which service providers can be held liable, tend to ultimately target end users.

The only way for those unfortunate enough to attract the attention of The Lady, to survive is to game that broken system and hope that the good/bad publicity quotas for the month haven't been filled.

A broken system needs to be fixed, or instead it becomes a "fixed" system that benefits a privileged few, and privileges a fortunate few. (If that's a quote I have no idea where or who from.)