13 of 20

Yes

Write now Article Tools

I am so confused on what our Country is thinking when it comes to health care. I am a married disabled mother of two. I pay for Medicare out of my Social Security Disability income that I receive monthly. My husband also pays $320 a week for our family to be covered by his insurance that he gets through his job.

Now, you would think that by because I am covered by two insurances my husband and I would not be in debt due to medical bills. Think again. For some reason I still end up paying outrageous co-payments especially because most of my Doctors are specialists. I have a blood disorder named protein-c deficiency. I was on Coumadin for ten years and when that stopped working and it almost killed me, my hematologist put me on daily Lovenox injections. I am 37 years old and was forced to stop working in 2000. Believe it or not I was a legal secretary for a small firm and they "let me go" when I got a blood clot in my leg and was hospitalized for a week. I could not get temporary assistance because I was not fired. I did not want to stop working, but no one would hire me. At this point I was thirty years old and was forced to apply for Social Security. My husband was killing himself trying to maintain everything we had built for our family. We had two small children at the time and in 1998 he broke his back at work.

Nine years later his back has gotten worse and he needs back surgery, but he can not take the time off from work to have it done. My co-payments for my medication monthly are $640. That is a good month when I am just on my maintenance medication. You know, the ones that are keeping me alive. Last year I started having seizures and kept falling and blacking out. I had another stroke and spent most of the winter in a wheel chair. We are being attacked by the IRS, they say we owe $12,000 so now the rest of my Social Security check goes to the IRS monthly. They take $360 a month and we can not afford a lawyer or accountant to help us out of this mess.

It is a nightmare trying to get the referrals and all of the paperwork done just to get tests and blood work that I need done approved by, not a Doctor, but someone sitting in a cubicle somewhere in an office that probably gets a bonus for the most medical treatments that they turn down.

I do not know if universal health care is the answer but something seriously needs to be done. This morning on the news I could not believe it when I heard that the Federal Government

• 1
• 2
• next page >>

Add your voice

Know something about Health care is increasingly expensive in the United States, is it time to adopt European style "universal health care"??
We want to hear your view. Write now!