It’s been awhile since I blogged, I guess it takes me some time to collect a thought. Well, I have collected one complete thought and it’s about the whole health care blah, blah, blah. I had health insurance almost two years ago and it was great! Hospitals and doc’s treated you like royalty! Then the bottom fell out of my world, I lost my health and I lost my ability to go back to work because of my health. Bottom line…also lost my health insurance.
How did losing my health insurance affect me? All my doctors dropped me like a hot rock, they sent me nice letters and all but they couldn’t treat me any more because I couldn’t pay. The last time I was hospitalized I was treated like pond scum. I overheard the nurses talking as they were leaving my room that I needed a certain test, but the hospital wasn’t going to do it because I had no insurance. And this is America!!?? We don’t take care of our own anymore. It seems to me that we will take care of the new people coming to America, set them up in business, give them health care, money, low-interest rates etc. but what about us??
I am an American, bred here, born here and will die here. I want to know why my country has decided that I am expendable? Just because I can no longer exist in the workplace does not mean that I still can’t be a productive member of the United States of America!
It has been almost two years since I applied for disability. I am fighting to get the money that I have paid into our Government for all the years that I was able to work. Now my America sees me as a cast off, I’ve fallen through the cracks of political red-tape, and now I am invisible.
Does anyone out there agree? Am I the only one seeing an awful pattern creeping into our mindset?
Years ago I was an activist, now I am too tired and too sick to put up much of a fight about our health care system, but I can tell you from first hand experience that it SUCKS! Last yeas SS sent me to a head doc because I was depressed. I’ll never forget sitting in a chair while this 20-something head doc asked me questions. She asked me if I was in fact depressed. I looked at her straight in the eyes and told her; “If you just lost your health, your job, your home and your insurance wouldn’t you be depressed?” She just looked at me with this dumb look on her face. Her diagnosis…I was suffering from depression. Ya think? Sheesh.
I know that I am not alone with what I’m going through. I know that there are many, many others out there just like me fighting for what belongs to them, yet getting nowhere fast, falling through political cracks, and dying before they ever see a dime of their money. It’s just a damn shame, and the shame needs to be placed on America. My country tis of thee has abandoned me in my time of need.
And the words crafted into the Statue of Liberty? That’s all they are…words, meaningless words.
Oh yeah! We welcome newcomers with open arms! But us old-time disabled Americans are now hidden away like a crazed relative while our government makes it increasingly difficult for any of us to exist. And they lay in wait…waiting for us to die, so they can save the money to bail out corporate America by way of banks and auto companies etc. Somewhere in the back of my memory banks I remember a flag that we used to fly, I believe it said “Don’t Tread on Me.”
Well I have been tread on, drug through a bush backwards and discarded like yesterday’s garbage…
My hope is that a common man or woman will rise up and lead us again, it’s been too long and we are overdue.
God Bless America…
