How messed up are you?
POSTED BY: Iremisst
UPDATED: Thursday, January 21, 2010 23:52
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I know that a lot of y'all are or have been out of work in recent times and with all the debate on health care I got to wondering... Really, how messed up are you (or people you know) ?? What things have you done to get by without healthcare (recent or in the past, funny or not)? What's the longest you have ever gone without it? What makes you the most angry about today's system? Are you for or against reform? Please keep your political agendas out of it!!! Also, I'd love to hear from some of the flans from other countries about their systems, too!!
And yes, I know this ain't got much to do with Firefly, but hell, a full third of the posts in here don't- So don't preach at me, Book! <<< There's yer reference, am I legitimate now?
Complain away folks, I'm listening!
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I think you are the only one messed up JACK.
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Come on and answer me here people, nobody has posted here yet!!!
Damn shame, too- on such an important topic...
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Luckily I'm Australian so we get basic healthcare for free. where I luck out is the non basic but necessary for me stuff. I have Mod-severe Tourette's so this means occasiaonal sprains strain dislocations and stress fractures. Can't afford physiotherapy and am not covered for it. so at the moment I am nursing an injured right arm: partially dislocated it 3 mnths ago due to overzealous twitchyfication, accidenatlly pinched a nerve when I clicked it back in...nerve still pinched...need physio...can't afford it...waiting till I can't move my arm at all and then will get it sorted at emergency department which is free here. Unfortunately I have to wait till my arm is completely F___ked up before I can have it fixed. oh well I have the other arm.
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You might have more like in the RWED sub board down below
Either your with the terrorists, or ... your with the terrorists 
Lets party like its 1939
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God, that's gotta be dehumanizing, Boris... I'm sure that the mostly uninjured arm isn't much help anyway and to have the other almost imcapacited and painfully, too. Is a partial dislocation not considered emergent care in Austrailia or were you not in a position to make it to the hospital? Or did you think you were not that badly injured? Or not wanna deal with doctors? I understand that last one!
My mother has a job with a flexible schedule that allows her to volunteer with the fuzzy-wuzzies but has no insurance... anyway three days ago she fell on her truck and completely dislocated her shoulder...She still in massive pain and also can't afford therapy, or the hospital visit... My Grandmother wanted to take her to a CHIROPRACTER because she thought it'd be CHEAPER!!I have a whole book worth of problems in my family...
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Just now realized am in talk story, very tired tonight, oh well.
Here's as good a place as any, we'll hold till you get back!
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I went four years without visiting the dentist. When I got something that was kind of like coverage through a job and started going again, I was informed I had something close to twenty cavities. With (limited) help from the insurance, and some help from family, and some just stretching my 
ing shoestring til it almost snapped, I've had about $3000 worth of work done this year. Work that probably could have been partially avoided if I hadn't been terrified of paying my own dental costs when I 'grew up.'
I haven't had new glasses or an eye exam for three years now. I can still see, but not as well as I might.
I went to my first doctor's appointment in well over a decade this year, because my mother was kind (and concerned) enough to pay for it. My thyroid might have problems. My adrenals might have problems. They might both have problems or there might be problems elsewhere. Right now all we know is what I've known for years; I'm fatigued and worn down a lot of the time, I have trouble getting to sleep, I crave food when I'm not hungry, and getting myself moving is pretty much a chore. If this D.O. can find out where the problems lie, he might be able to help me. We're trying to figure out a way to pay for testing. If I had insurance coverage beyond 'catastrophic' (which is almost more than I can really afford) then insurance might pay for some of the testing, though they generally refuse to pay for appointments with a D.O. so I would still be on my own paying to get the care and help I actually need.
So far in my life I have avoided serious debt. I've done that by going without. My whole family, a great deal of the time, has gone without. When there's a windfall, we usually celebrate with a trip to some kind of health care practitioner. So. Yeah. How messed up is THAT?
Do I think we need health care reform? No, I don't think 'reform' can even be a part of that sentence. We need health care. Right now, the caring for of health is pretty much nonexistent. And the caring for someone in poor health seems to fall pretty far below the 50% line. From where I stand, it's pretty remarkable I'm as healthy as I am. If I was actually allowed to care for that health instead of having to wait until something was ready to fall apart, or even beyond that point, I'd be in far better shape than I am.
My bottom line on the whole subject is that insurance companies and their greedy, uncaring agenda need to die. In a fire. Whoever can do that... whoever is willing to do that... will have my support. I voted for this guy who talked about doing something like that, but he's kinda pissing me off at this point. If big pharma and insurance companies are allowed to carry on as they have, controlling all the money and all the power and a whole lot of the available information... a lot of people are going to be miserable and unhealthy. Just like now. And they'll wonder why and they'll pop another pill that's all the treatment they can get coverage for, and they're not going to get any healthier. I really don't like being in that kind of world.
So how messed up am I? I'm less messed up than a lot of people, and I think that's pretty sad.
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A long while ago, my wife got pregnant with our first daughter. Turned out to be officially a high-risk pregnancy, because of a back injury and some other factors. I changed jobs before we found out. In those days, a new employer would insure you after 30 days, not 6 months like it is often now. New employers' insurance immediately declared it was a pre-existing condition and said they wouldn't cover it. We went thru a local hospital high risk clinic, and except for a few extra tests, had no unusual troubles; carried to term, normal natural childbirth, mother and baby fine. Kid had some medical problems later, unrelated, we think, just normal child-developmental stuff, and she's in her 30's now. But I still carry that insurance company's name around in my head and will not take a job with any company that offers their insurance-- I've turned some down for that very reason and no other. I won't name them, but it's an easy name to guess-- It's got a color and an item of clothing, well, armor, anyway in it .
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