wasn't sure where to put this....

[Dreamscapes Collectives]

(08-24-2012, 03:55 PM)nats Wrote: seriously, it seems so impossible. why is there no health insurance? thought USA was a rich developed country?

I have insurance, but it's state government insurance that is based on income. In one way it is good because it covers ALL my medication costs. Which is good because I wouldn't be able to afford all of me meds otherwise. But it's bad because less and less specialist and even PCPs will accept the state insurance because the get as much money from the state as they get from private insurance. So it isn't that the specialists aren't out there, just they won't take my insurance.

Those of us on the extreme lower end of the financial scale often get caught in this, and it sucks. There is a lot of stigma about being on state and federal gov't insurance and social security disability. Especially in hospitals. They say they don't treat us any differently than someone with private insurance, but the plain truth is that often they do.

I, myself, am in a catch 22. To get private insurance, I would have to get a job. As soon as I get a job, I lose a certain amount of my disability check. I can't get a job right now that would make more than what I'm getting from the state so I would actually be making things harder by working. If I could work. Right now, strictly physically speaking, I simply cannot handle the physical stress on my body at any job I currently qualify for, which are all minimum wage jobs.

*sigh* It is a f*ck*d up situation.

realms people.