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Has any one seen this yet? I went to the video store with my mom..and i saw it. I had been wanting to watch it. I am watching it right now…
and really, i feel pretty shot in the foot. I feel hurt and terrible about this and almost want to cry.
you see, when i got sick…i gues i thought what happened to me with my health care….is some bizare way…was normal. or maybe that i was isolated..that what happened was not deliberate.
after seeing what amaerican health care has done to other people…and knowing myself that i was deliberately denied, I feel rather abused. Even with this last surgery, the docter could care less how i was doing. he just wanted me out of his hair and even told me in front off my mom,” even if you call and say something is wrong, I will not belive you, because I know what i did.”
Even his nurses were shocked.
Right now I do not have health insurance againl. evidently the state health care is only good for three months and then you have to re-aply…and they did not even tell me this. We thought i was covered until janurary(for six months)I deal with severe post traumatic stress, and all though it is a lot better after the surgery, my post traumatic stress keeps me from getting a job here.(I am mostly inside the house because I am too afraid to walk into town unless i am with some one, and even then i can get real shaky) I can’t go to the doctor to help deal with this because there is no insurance and the last docter i want to was a couple hundred a visit(and then there are those docters that just want to give you medicines)
We are hoping that moving to oregon, back into the woods will help and make it easier for me to deal with the severe anxiety.It all just seems so screwed up though.
I really needed to rant about this. It’s hard waking up and knowing if something happens, you do not have health care.So has any one else watched this documentary? what did you think of it?
I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard horror stories about health care in the US.
I’m lucky, here in Canada my basic health care is provided for. And anything that isn’t covered is covered under the health care package my bf has from his work.
Since I basically work for myself, I don’t get the extra perks. And my bf’s last job was contract so for a while, I was paying out the nose for things like prescriptions, glasses…I was running about $150 a month just for meds alone. Now most of that is claimed under bf’s insurance and they’ll cover a portion or my glasses…trips to the dentist…that sort of thing. It’s a huge help.
I’ve been extremely frustrated with our health care system. I currently have no health insurance because my current job doesn’t provide it, but even still, my last two health care providers were less than decent. They’d basically wear me down until I gave up with all the hoop jumping they required 🙁 I’ll end now before this becomes a rant *sigh* My father is a soldier in the US army, and he’s been pretty satisfied with the health care they provide.
Since the US health care industry is made up of private insurers who are trying to make a profit, I’m not sure why I expected anything different.
I did enjoy the movie though 😆
i know what you mean about health care in the US and how they just want money. I got VERY lucky with my Mom and Grandma’s last doctors. They would call me and let me know things but that is VERY rare these days.
I hope things get better for you once you move.
I have never heard of SickoHealth care system here in the states suck! My husband has insurace because it cost him alone a dollar… to add me it goes up to $400.00+ and then for a family… very close to $700.00! 😯
I have seen parts of that show, and the lady talking about her abulance ride about knocked me over, I am also in Canada, and more specifically Alberta, so we have provincial health care, as the company DH and I work for pays for that as well as our group health care. Between us my son gets 600 a year for glasses, we each get 600 every 2 years. Most dental, all prescriptions, I am very grateful for it I can tell you that.
Dragon Master wrote:i know what you mean about health care in the US and how they just want money. I got VERY lucky with my Mom and Grandma’s last doctors. They would call me and let me know things but that is VERY rare these days.
I hope things get better for you once you move.
I have never heard of SickoSicko is a documentary that just came out on video and I highly recomend any one to watch it. it digs up a lot of dirt on the healthcare system and compares it to healthcare in other countries. It is some pretty solid stuff.
When I had my FIRST sinuse infections, my docter gave me allergy meds and antibiotics……….for over a year…even though i kept coming in every month witht he same symptoms. I went to a new docter, he sent me to an ENT. After poking me and causing me so much pain I could not speak, he told my mom,”frankly, there is nothing wrong with her at all. She is eather faking it, or you should get her checked by a phychiatrist. I can give you a phone number.” I went to another ENT, and then a 3’rd before i got a CT scan that showed i needed surgery.
My medical care tried not paying.
then when i started getting seick again after surgery, I ran out of healthcare. I was too old to be covered by my dad’s insurance…so we applied for blu cross…and they siad i was accepted………….then three months later denied me saying my sinus infection was a pre-existing condition. They used up the time i had to get other insurance and black balled me at the same time. I had to wait another year before i could apply for state insurance………. With a sinus infection that was constantly getting worse.( and still, i ended up with an ENT who treated me like dirt and did try telling me i was fine)
Hillary’s not in office yet. The retard still is. 👿
And, my family physician is currently riding 3 malpractice suits… 😯
Lucky for me, I don’t have any pre-existing sicknesses, etc. But, I won’t have insurance much longer either, and there are so many things I need to get checked…I haven’t been able to afford an annual for 6 years, even with the insurance. Gee wiz…I do wish Hillary was in office. 😯WindstoneCollector wrote:Hillary’s not in office yet. The retard still is. 👿
And, my family physician is currently riding 3 malpractice suits… 😯
Lucky for me, I don’t have any pre-existing sicknesses, etc. But, I won’t have insurance much longer either, and there are so many things I need to get checked…I haven’t been able to afford an annual for 6 years, even with the insurance. Gee wiz…I do wish Hillary was in office. 😯
I have not had or seen a GP in about 20 years. I need to find a Doctor in Kaiser but that alone is a nightmare
I can’t wait until Hillary is in officeI’ve been round and round with health insurance companies because of my husband. Lucky for me his cf team at Hopkins is fantastic and know how to fight them. His one cf nurse used to work for the insurance companies and had to quit because she couldn’t stand what they do to patients. Back when we where first trying to have a kid I had to get a blood test to see if I was a carrier of the cf gene. This nurse “hid” the blood work in with my husbands tests because insurance wouldn’t cover for me to get tested. It was a very expensive tests to they submitted it under his name then removed the results from his chart.
When he needed his lung transplant my insurance rider states in it that they cover double lung transplants in full. Even though they say its covered they still denied it numerous times. They told us that he would have to be listed on the transplant list then the insurance company would form a committe and they would decide if he needed the transplant or not. Why and insurance company gets the right to make that choice and not the doctors is beyond me. Eventually they gave us pre-authorization for it. Just today I’m still getting letters from the insurance company saying they need more time to go over the claim (all the bills from his transplant). So far the run down I’ve gotten from his hospital expenses are over $30,000 and the insurance still hasn’t paid any of it. They keep saying they need more time to go over the claim.
Also even with insurance I have to pay $400 in co-pay s for all of my husbands anit-rejection meds. If we didn’t have insurance we could never afford his meds.
In Canada, you don’t pay for a transplant; the government covers it.
I find the lack of public healthcare in the US mind-boggling and I really feel for you, Koi. I know some other forums members who did not get care simply because they couldn’t afford it. That’s just wrong.
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My mom’s bill for her frist surgery to get rid of her first tumor ended up at over $107,000 luckily medical and medicare covered itYeah, I’ve seen Sicko- I follow most of Michael Moore’s work pretty closely.
I think there really needs to be some serious changes in the way the US deals with healthcare, its really quite disgusting the way its being handled now.
I just recently had to fight with my insurance company to get them to cover a mammogram that I had recently. They cover a yearly mammogram, but said that because I had had a lump that I went to get checked out that they wouldnt cover it, even though I hadnt had my annual one yet and wouldnt have one for the rest of the year. They said if it had been just a routine checkup then it wouldve been covered- I thought it was ridiculous that they would deny coverage because of the reason I went in- why would it matter as long as I only had one? And it was nothing anyway in the lump so there was no follow-up or anything they had to pay for. They told me they would ‘review’ it. I still havn’t heard back from them.
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