Reality is Going to Hit a Lot of People that Took Their Great Ins. Plans as a Right, Rather than a Benefit They should be Glad for, if All of These Changes take Place. But again, as I and Others have Said Before, it's just too Soon to Figure All of This Out. But I'd Bet the Farm that the Current Ins. Co's out There Today are going to try and Align Themselves for the Change Early, before the Changes Hit, and it's going to Effect Millions, just as the Credit Card Changes Have!! We have a Couple of Examples on Here already, with BX4's Wife, and Backaches Brother-in-Law. Many will Hurt Financially before These Reforms even become Law, and even then it's going to take Years to Institute!!
We are in that position also. Make too much to get any sort of aid. What is going to happen? Before you know it there will be more lost homes, more people who have depleted their life's savings paying health insurance premiums or deductables. I still come back to choices. I have a choice with every insurance I have except health. I sat in the Chemo room with Bill today. It was packed. People in and out all day. More people have a form of cancer than we could even dream possible. What happens when one by one they all lose their insurance? I am trying so hard to put this all in the back of my mind but not knowing what will happen next is making me a nervous wreck. I've been hungry, I had to feed 3 children on $11,000 a year because they're father was an alcoholic. I can't go back there and I know that's where we're heading. I for one would love my whole family to live together. Pool our funds, share the bills and have a nice house big enough for all of us. I'm just ranting now. My diabetes is out of control and so is my depression so God only knows what kind of sense I'm making.
Cap I couldn't agree more. When I worked at the nursing home and someone would die the boss would tell me to go and pack up their belongings. These people were mainly in their 80's and 90's and they would have 1 or 2 garbage size bags of belongings to their names when they passed. It was heart breaking since I knew many of these people and they had beautiful homes at one time, full of precious things they had collected over the years.
Oh Lord how sad. I hope and pray that our country is able to pull itself up. I pray daily for the President that he makes the best decisions and would not want to be in his shoes for all the tea in china right now.
This may sound starnge , but I'm thankful my brother in law had his stroke when he did. If he had it now that his benefits have been cut so much, he would be paying his hosp bill off the rest of his life. He was in the hosp a long time and then rehab a feeding tube etc. After the stroke he was found to be diabetic and has had other health issues. Thank God he can be on Medicare soon so in case anything else happens he is covered.
No it doesn't sound strange. In some ways this sort of thing, oddly enough, works for us.
With regards to a previous post about elderly dying and their belongings being put into garbage bags to gather it together. I am overly sensitive about that sort of thing. When it comes down to a persons belonging being put into a garbage bag it sort of says something about the worth of a person. We need to find some other way to gather together belongings. I know. Too sensitive. It just hit a nerve. almost as if you could see it in a documentary or something. Wow.
Also, Thank you Admin for going through the trouble of separating the forum in this way. At least this way people can go into the forum with an open mind, hopefully, or choose not to even check it out. I think it is a very good move.
I'm sorry Bagpuss I certainly didn't mean to offend you or anyone else. I tried to be sensitive about it by writing garbage size bags. In reality we put their belongings in whatever the family provided us with. Some families just ask us to put their family members things in bags for them and give them to other residents. When my Mom passed 6 years ago yesterday my sister and I lovenly packed her things up and took them home with us. I still have many of the items. Believe me when someone passed away while I was on duty, the first thing I did was open the window to let their souls fly free. I always had the aides fix their hair and make them look as natural as possible for any family members who wanted to come and see them one last time. I never left my 3-11 shift when someone was passing, until one of the night shift girls could go and sit with them. There were many nights when I clocked out and called my husband to tell him I wouldn't be home until I made sure someone was with them. Many of the people I have worked with in the past became desensitized to the elderly dying, I never did it always affected me when someone who I had cared for passed.
Ok, I have my annual mammogram scheduled for Jan. Do I have to cancel it, now with the new regulations?
I don't know about that Chris. I do know that if you are layed off you now only have to pay a portion of your insurance instead of the entire amount.
When I heard that busines about mammograms at 50 I was speechless. Then I hear something else about 94% of the population being insured with this bill they hope to pass on Saturday and only the extrememly rich being taxed, then I read an article by AARP that really explains what congress wants in comparison to what the senate wants. Funny there was no speration of parties with AARP's article. Very informative.
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