Can i please ask something from all of you healthy individuals?
Please help stand up for those of us with chronic illnesses. Rendering Medicaid useless means so many vulnerable, poor folks and kids will end up dying, or incurring so much medical debt that they lose everything.
As a chronically ill person (genetic disease, collagen…
Can i please ask something from all of you healthy individuals?
Please help stand up for those of us with chronic illnesses. Rendering Medicaid useless means so many vulnerable, poor folks and kids will end up dying, or incurring so much medical debt that they lose everything.
As a chronically ill person (genetic disease, collagen disorder), I got involved in politics because of Obama and healthcare. My father was disabled- growing up, we never got to go on vacations or anything unless it was to a hospital system - my brother and i managed to make Rochester MN and the Mayo Clinic pretty fun. Mostly by riding 20 some odd floor elevators up and down for hours - but I digress.
I had a moment when I was around 8 or so when we were visiting our Canadian relatives, and I realized that if we had lived there, my family wouldn’t have struggled for money constantly. My father had both Medicare and my mother’s private insurance, and every year, we hit catastrophic. Hitting it was like 10k out of pocket then.
It is something else to be that young and understand that your country is absolutely fine with punishing those people who are unlucky enough to get sick, to the point of poverty. To say nothing of the absurd rules and hilarious pittance one gets if they actually can get disability.
The ACA isn’t the best, but it’s better than how things were before. I have looked at plans there - and for someone with my health issues, the mid level plan requires me paying $7k out of pocket before catastrophic. When looking for work, I have to factor that into salary if healthcare is dismal. Tell me how many people can afford that?
Prior to the ACA, I had the unfortunate luck to get into a car accident and I came out with a brain injury. As a walking pre-existing condition, I didn’t have healthcare. I was 20, and was kicked off my mother’s insurance at 18, while I was still in high school. I needed health insurance, and so I went to figure it out. The plan that was the cheapest required that I pay $2k every month for 6 months, and i wouldn’t have coverage until after those 6 months. So $12k for the privilege of paying another $12k to get some coverage.
Anyone with a brain can see how wrong that is. So i decided to try to meet with my Congress critter, to see what could be done. Medicaid was a nonstarter, because before the ACA, I could only get it if I got pregnant. So ruining my life at 20 where I would have been a very bad mother, was rewarded with healthcare, but going to college, working and doing everything right? Nothing.
My congress critter refused to meet with me, and his staffers walked me out of the office for daring to come in there and ask him for help, which btw was his job.
After that, I threw my life into organizing for healthcare. I didn’t and do not, ever, ever want another young person to have their life ruined. The brain injury meant I went to the ER a fair amount because I had unrelenting migraines. Those trips cost me $4k a pop. I was lucky to have a good GP who worked with me financially, and I was able to get some of my meds for free from the drug companies, but my antidepressant alone was $400 a month. Each month, my meds ran from $600 on up. I only survived because my parents sacrificed so that I could get treatment.
I tell this long story to you all because people who don’t have major health issues don’t understand how much our society loathes the sick. They don’t have a clue how much it costs to dare to be ill. They don’t understand that disability is next to nothing. They don’t know that if you use Medicaid and say, you inherit money- that money goes to the government, to pay off your being on Medicaid.
This administration is blatant about their eugenics. America has always made it clear to those of us with health issues that we are burdens no one wants. This administration is absolutely fine with throwing vulnerable, sick people to the wolves. I suspect if they could watch people suffer and die, they would, because they are soulless evil black holes in the shape of human beings.
We need to fight against them taking away healthcare. If you can’t do it for the vulnerable, do it because millions of people are going to lose their jobs. Nurses, doctors, therapists, hospital workers - when you toss over 30 million people off of insurance, what do you think happens to healthcare?
And for those of you who have depression (who doesn’t) and take meds - RFK isn’t just trying to create an autism registry. He’s trying to create one for anyone who has a mental health issue. His whole “wellness farms” thing isn’t a joke. We have an absolute idiot, who parades around with dead bears and whales, deciding that all of us who have depression/anxiety/bipolar/schizophrenia, ect ect all need to be forcefully taken off of our meds at glorified labor camps where we get to “farm” our food, and nothing bad could ever happen, right? He should have kept the brain worm. I suspect when it left, common sense left his brain.
Again apologies for this long essay, but I feel very strongly about these issues.
Thank you for telling us your story. Many people really have no idea of the cruel Catch-22's of our healthcare system. It's profoundly shameful and unnecessary.
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Can i please ask something from all of you healthy individuals?
Please help stand up for those of us with chronic illnesses. Rendering Medicaid useless means so many vulnerable, poor folks and kids will end up dying, or incurring so much medical debt that they lose everything.
As a chronically ill person (genetic disease, collagen disorder), I got involved in politics because of Obama and healthcare. My father was disabled- growing up, we never got to go on vacations or anything unless it was to a hospital system - my brother and i managed to make Rochester MN and the Mayo Clinic pretty fun. Mostly by riding 20 some odd floor elevators up and down for hours - but I digress.
I had a moment when I was around 8 or so when we were visiting our Canadian relatives, and I realized that if we had lived there, my family wouldn’t have struggled for money constantly. My father had both Medicare and my mother’s private insurance, and every year, we hit catastrophic. Hitting it was like 10k out of pocket then.
It is something else to be that young and understand that your country is absolutely fine with punishing those people who are unlucky enough to get sick, to the point of poverty. To say nothing of the absurd rules and hilarious pittance one gets if they actually can get disability.
The ACA isn’t the best, but it’s better than how things were before. I have looked at plans there - and for someone with my health issues, the mid level plan requires me paying $7k out of pocket before catastrophic. When looking for work, I have to factor that into salary if healthcare is dismal. Tell me how many people can afford that?
Prior to the ACA, I had the unfortunate luck to get into a car accident and I came out with a brain injury. As a walking pre-existing condition, I didn’t have healthcare. I was 20, and was kicked off my mother’s insurance at 18, while I was still in high school. I needed health insurance, and so I went to figure it out. The plan that was the cheapest required that I pay $2k every month for 6 months, and i wouldn’t have coverage until after those 6 months. So $12k for the privilege of paying another $12k to get some coverage.
Anyone with a brain can see how wrong that is. So i decided to try to meet with my Congress critter, to see what could be done. Medicaid was a nonstarter, because before the ACA, I could only get it if I got pregnant. So ruining my life at 20 where I would have been a very bad mother, was rewarded with healthcare, but going to college, working and doing everything right? Nothing.
My congress critter refused to meet with me, and his staffers walked me out of the office for daring to come in there and ask him for help, which btw was his job.
After that, I threw my life into organizing for healthcare. I didn’t and do not, ever, ever want another young person to have their life ruined. The brain injury meant I went to the ER a fair amount because I had unrelenting migraines. Those trips cost me $4k a pop. I was lucky to have a good GP who worked with me financially, and I was able to get some of my meds for free from the drug companies, but my antidepressant alone was $400 a month. Each month, my meds ran from $600 on up. I only survived because my parents sacrificed so that I could get treatment.
I tell this long story to you all because people who don’t have major health issues don’t understand how much our society loathes the sick. They don’t have a clue how much it costs to dare to be ill. They don’t understand that disability is next to nothing. They don’t know that if you use Medicaid and say, you inherit money- that money goes to the government, to pay off your being on Medicaid.
This administration is blatant about their eugenics. America has always made it clear to those of us with health issues that we are burdens no one wants. This administration is absolutely fine with throwing vulnerable, sick people to the wolves. I suspect if they could watch people suffer and die, they would, because they are soulless evil black holes in the shape of human beings.
We need to fight against them taking away healthcare. If you can’t do it for the vulnerable, do it because millions of people are going to lose their jobs. Nurses, doctors, therapists, hospital workers - when you toss over 30 million people off of insurance, what do you think happens to healthcare?
And for those of you who have depression (who doesn’t) and take meds - RFK isn’t just trying to create an autism registry. He’s trying to create one for anyone who has a mental health issue. His whole “wellness farms” thing isn’t a joke. We have an absolute idiot, who parades around with dead bears and whales, deciding that all of us who have depression/anxiety/bipolar/schizophrenia, ect ect all need to be forcefully taken off of our meds at glorified labor camps where we get to “farm” our food, and nothing bad could ever happen, right? He should have kept the brain worm. I suspect when it left, common sense left his brain.
Again apologies for this long essay, but I feel very strongly about these issues.
Thank you for telling us your story. Many people really have no idea of the cruel Catch-22's of our healthcare system. It's profoundly shameful and unnecessary.