NO Insurace? How far would you go to get your child help?
By debrakcarey
@debrakcarey (19887)
United States
June 14, 2009 6:29pm CST
Imagine you had no access to healthcare. Or that if you did have healthcare insurance they refused to pay for a life saving treatment for your child. How far would you go to get your child help? Basically, I want to know what lengths ALL of should go to to have affordable healthcare in the USA?
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jun 09
To help my child directly, I'd be selling everything I have, hitting up every charity I could find, visiting doctors and playing on their sympathy, whatever it took.
As far as affordable health care in general, for now it's writing letters and signing petitions, but if I had a dying child with no coverage, I'd probably be in DC right on the Capitol steps with my child and a lot of really large signs (and hopefully a crowd of supporters).
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 Jun 09
I'd come with and help...!
And I'll call you next time our hospital won't admit one of my grandkids. lol
You think I have a big mouth on Yuwie...
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Jun 09
roflmao
well let's hope we never have occasion for you to have to prove that!
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 Jun 09
I think the pissant dr. at the ER feels the same way...he threatened to call the cops...I said ok..I'll call the newspaper while you're doing that..how do you spell your name?
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
15 Jun 09
Oh, Debrakcarey!
What a huge bucket of worms this topic is!
I would do anything, with only hurting others as an exception, to get healthcare for a child. However, a person doesn't need to be uninsured to be unable to afford even insured healthcare!
I am supposedly well-insured. My employer even pays for it. But I can't get groceries this week, as has happened a number of times, because my co-payments in the month of June have come to almost $700, and the month in't half over. I've been teaching for 41 years, and I have 8 Master's degrees, so I'm supposed to have earned good care. Well, that would be fine if I were in good health. My health is poor, and I rely on not only a number of medications (which I can't always refill because co-payments are so high)and I must see many doctors on a regular basis. I'm due for more surgery at the end of the month, and then there's all the recuperation junk. If I were healthy, I'd be doing fine financially. Instead, I'm overdrawn at the bank and practically drooling in wait for the next pay check. I usually teach summer school for extra income, but it's been eliminated for budgetary reasons.
Everyone MUST get behind health care reform, or there will be many more in my situation than there already are.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
15 Jun 09
Again, I am in awe of your strength!
I am a mere medication technician in a small nursing home...I make about $400 a week. If I paid for insurance I would not be able to afford food or gas for my car. Then, after paying those premiums, I would not be able to pay the deductible or the 20% the insurance doesn't cover. I am not in poor health...but my age is catching up to me. Diabetes, heart disease and arthritis...all of which I treat myself with diet, supplements and herbs. I do pay for lab work each year and am blessed that I know what the results mean....and am somewhat able to know what to do to help myself. I also have great friends who are doctors and nurses who advise me for free.
But I had a real scare a few years back...kinda personal so I won't go into details. Wound up in ER and was admitted...told was going to have some testing done...doc said it could be cancer...or it could be other real bad things. I woke up the next morning to a discharge paper because they figured out I had no way to pay for all that testing. lol I asked, but what if?....and they just shook their heads and said there was nothing they could do.
I feel it is a crime in this very rich country that children die of infected teeth (young boy with medicaid) cause doctors won't accept the medicaid and doctors and hospitals turn sick people away cause they don't have money!
My granddaughter was 18 months old...had rotavirus and was dehydrated and the ER sent her home with instructions to 'push fluids' three times in one day even after we told them each time that she hadn't kept anything down for over 36 hours! She was lethargic and hard to rouse. Finally she was admitted when we called her pediatrician out of town...and he called the hospital. Her parents had medicaid! A few months later a nurse at work was talking about her son having this same virus....and he was air evacuated to a nearby big city. Why? I asked her what insurance they had...and she said BlueCross/BlueSheild. Her son was six years old and only had been vomitting for a few hours. ???? He had no other conditions! Just was vomitting and fever same as my granddaughter!
Our healthcare system is a crock! And I work in it...I see a lot of abuses and a lot of plain scarey stuff!
