My personal Heath care status is BAD!!, how about you?

[Dying Eagle]

I work construction for the union. Our heath insurance is based on how many hours I work in a quarter. If I don't make the number, i lose my insurance for the next quarter.

Well thanks to The Schrub economy I have been layed off enough in the last 1 1/2 years that I have had health insurance about 40% of that time.

They give you the chance to buy your insurance, but when your layed off who can afford the extra bill that they make you pay in full at the time of losing you insurance.

So as I sit here layed off on a Monday with a lung infection wishing I could afford to go to the doctor to get some antibiotics, I just want to scream, but I can't, refer back to the lung infection.

The heath care crisis is the only crisis in America (Excluding Iraq), not Social Security! So i will continue to sit here and wonder, write, cry and scream that someone in Washington will take up this fight and free us from the medical bureaucracy.

So I will write a letter Dem party leaders and ask them why they let Shrub set policy. While Schrub is running around the country lying about SS. Dem's should be all over the TV talking heath care, In high school gyms talking heath care. Shift the nations attention to heath care with hard numbers and passionate grassroots speeches. This can be done. We may not have the majority, but we have a loud voice when we stand up and use it. Hello Dem's, can you hear us?

[CrispyQ]

1. It's scandalous that America's health plan is

"Don't get sick!"

Sheesh, when I see what our country has become compared to what it was it makes me sick!

Get lots of rest, drink lots of fluids, take some vitamins. I hope you get well soon.

[Dying Eagle]

3. thank you CrispyQGirl

:hug:

[Evacuation7]

2. ouch, I've got great

health insurance(pays 100%)and it's free. I'm very fortunate.

[Dying Eagle]

4. Wow

I want your job!

WELCOME TO DU!!!!!! :hug:

[elehhhhna]

5. Call the doc, tell the nurse, ask if they'll phone in a scrip...

Some Docs' (and lots of Nurses) are bending over backwards to help people w/o insurance--they may just give you free samples

Lung infections aren't worth messing with.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Uh huh

Wait until pResident POS pushes through his ownership private health care accounts so your employer won't HAVE to provide you with health care insurance. You'll be paying for your own health care insurance when that happens. And if you can't afford it, you'll be among the current 45 million Americans who also can't afford it. Enjoy! :-)

[Evacuation7]

13. I'm a nurse, I'll always have good

health care. With the nursing shortage, we can pretty much get anything we want. It's a great bargaining chip!

[Craig3410]

7. How's my health? Just freakin' WONDERFUL.

Let's see now, I've got diabetes (insulin, syringes, glucagon, strips), ADHD (Concerta), mild depression (Paxil).

Unless I can get a well-paying job with complete health benefits straight out of college, I'm FUCKED.


:(

[catmandu57]

8. We have the just don't get sick plan

So, we're on our own.
One suggestion, recently we had to take a sick cat to the vet, they sent home with us a bottle of amoxicillan for 6.00, it was the very same stuff we used to give the kids, it tastes like bubble gum so they'll take it.
If there is an animal supply house near you you can buy antibiotics without a script, either that or take your chances ordering off the net.

I hope you get better.

[SmokingJacket]

10. Aaaack!!! Be careful if you're going to do that!!

Dosing is really REALLY important with antibiotics. If you don't take enough for long enough, the infection can be made WORSE.

Never mess around with antibiotics. Misuse of them is what has created superbugs -- bacteria that have grown resistant to antibiotics.

It certainly does piss me off that they charge less for cat drugs -- but amoxicillin is still not expensive.

Unless you're a pharmacist who knows about the correct dosage and the particular strength of the mix, I'd avoid getting people drugs from vet supply houses.

[tcoursen]

9. Mine is good

I am fortunate enough to have decent health care package.

I work for a small company that was merged with another company last year. This year, since the company is now larger can qualify for better rates. So my rates this year actually went DOWN 25%. It is a small company and the owner tries her hardest to keep the benefits at a good level, and she is a republican. For the longest time they even would pay for day care, but she had to cut that out two years ago. They pick up I think 75 or 80% of the cost of the health care and the employees have to pick up the rest. And it is a good policy and covers all kinds of things and has dental and vision, and the co-pays and deductibles are not bad at all.

[Spike from MN]

11. That's awful. I hate hearing these horror stories about people

with no health insurance. It just shouldn't be an issue in this day and age. We need to get special interests out and a single-payer plan in.

I'm one of the fortunate ones that has great health insurance with prescription coverage to boot. Good thing too because my health kind of sucks and there's no way I could afford my meds if I had to pay for them. And if you can believe this, my insurance is through an HMO and I have absolutely no complaints whatsoever with them. IMHO, these guys should be a model for what HMOs (and a national health plan) should be like. They are absolutely fantastic. Yeah, my salary sucks but at least the job provides me with excellent health insurance.

Edited to add: I pay about $30 per month for the coverage, $10 co-pay for doc appts. and $15 co-pay for meds. (which can be reduced to $10 per med if you go mail-order and get 3 months worth at a time). Other than that I don't pay a dime.

[Dear Maggie]

12. Go on Medicaid

Why can't you go on and off medicaid?

When you don't have earnings, you should be eligible

I know a man who got a full time job just for the summer and then he got laid off.

He lost his housing assistance and medicaid when he got his job and went into the hole fast

Those who have little get the best health care, from what I've observed.

Lung infection sounds scary; any infection is scary.
Maybe you should go to the doctor & apply for medicaid at the same time.

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