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After brutal torture I was awarded Medicare and Medicaid in my state to help with my PTSD and resultant injuries. Now NIM and Cali have different ideas about who should foot the bill for my medication. I have over 17 HMOs who I have tried who all fight between state and federal law. Who suffers? My family and the thousands of elderly people I used to help before I lost my mind running a nursing home. It was all for profit. I got my degree at USC Andrus School of Gerontology and refused to work in medical malpractice. I live off of about 900/mo now with a school chum since my boyfriend and I can't afford my medicine and to move to a bigger place that accomodates my physical handicaps. I wonder when the govt will choose if I am only a mental patient or only a physical injury patient, but between the two warring factions of healthcare, nothing takes. I can't get a low income house in my area without taking more pills and those have to be subsidized by a private for profit big pharma group HMO. If i want to get a low income house I can also say I'm totally physically disabled which is not true just to compete with other veterans and not qualify for any under 55 housing. To be fair, orphans have it easier. My family is routinely punished and not allowed to see me while I am an outpatient because to do so would ruin my involvement with multiple programs already. I feel angry and tired of trying to figure this out at my age. Is there a financial cost of losing someone to a crime? Does the healthcare industry save money prescribing me the WRONG medicines with a constant steady clip and then denying me specific PTSD therapies and claiming the VA takes care of that? I feel this is the most highly studied medical issue to suffer from and has tons of research paid for by the US Military. I don't feel they owe another cent. The research is all there but the drug formularies are very strict and ugly especially when it comes to special case younger medicare recipients. I have watched as crack cocaine producers are sent into my home when I am homebound by local agencies and actually watched someone write a crack recipe out trying to help me afford medical expenses out of pocket. That person was hired by the local state/county monopoly for poor people who need in home care. I feel this is very annoying to watch after administrating a nursing home for Everyone, not just older people. I watched as lax regulations in the early decade promoted nothing more than systemic client overhaul, meaning drain the pants out of families during a time of crisis. I left those jobs and think about what I see now, interviewing random doctors in multiple HMOs. If you have medicare, you can shop around and change plans every single month. You won't get a workable treatment plan, but multiple insurance companies are more than happy to have you enlist enroll and begin ordering your arthritis pills through them and clang out the office visit copay from our taxpayers. I want to heal, i want the chance to live with my boyfriend. I don't want to suffer political corruption in our housing programs for the low income people who we mandate as not being well enough to work anymore who are educated. This sort of thing unhinges me. Let me know if anyone out there also suffers from PTSD who is not a vet, say a katrina survivor who has become displaced. I am seeking housing in the Los Angeles area and until we get a new mayor, I can pretty much forget about it. Between what healthcare has become for private citizens and what it isn't for the ones receiving healthcare but are not in the age range, we have failed me for sure.
I look forward to hearing from anyone specifically who is interested in healthcare reform. While I worked on some ancillary preliminary mock ups to help revamp the transparency of hospital minutia as an ex administrator of hospitals, I want you to just reread my statement. I am an EX administrator of hospitals. I was not going to throw my hat in with those people who don't think keeping an I-9 on file for cleaning staff were important. I feel if I was in a coma; I would want to know if the person dressing my wounds was actually a citizen and traceable by law if something should go wrong. That is not the case for more of these longer term care facilities. I just buried my grandpa after wrestling to get him back at home for his last few weeks of life. My family came to me for help, even though I'm considered :cray cray: by the state of California. My grandma who is well off still won't pay an ambulance bill for transferring him home. My grandpa was a WWII veteran with a purple heart and many noble accomplishments. I was shocked that the president had something whispered to my grandma at the service and can turn a blind eye to his grand-daughter in the same breath.
Hey, America, let's take back our healthcare system from a slew of under trained administrators because the doctors are burdened by paying out retarded malpractice insurance amts and there is nothing out there going to start paying them back for offering us instead, the fresh air, clean water, healthy food and uniting exercise programs in the community until we build it. WE have to build it. This is a great country and I for one, am sick of being told that I am not "paying" or "losing" anything other than time I could be working. I sit with the other elderly patients and think to myself, Well I have time, BUT DO THEY?
Much love to you citizens paying full price. Don't, in 3 years with a chronic illness and no income you too can be bounced around and told ER's are full by your medicare recipients. You didn't really think that money went to me and my social network did you? It goes directly to a clerk who turned me away last month when i couldn't breathe after exposure to high levels of ammonia. I have medicare, it didn't matter. I am fully covered, it didn't matter. If I had been 54 it might have been ironic. In my case, it just isn't wise to ask someone to treat me for a severe breathing situation if I am only a crazy person who survived torture for over three months during a crime. I think maybe, we can find a drone for this perp. I just wouldn't know where to start but the great Oz and removing the gold standard. It begins with a heart tin man, a heart. I can't be a PTSD sufferer and also have physical injuries. That wouldn't fit the line item criteria for most HMO plans. I am one or the other, a body or a brain. When that divorce ends I will truly be a child of our people. Until then, I have to choose if I want to live in a house or on the street. I have to choose if I want to turn my family in for abuse or run into the hills and call myself the crazy one. I wonder if there is a system that is provided for partial handi caps and if so, why they are choked out by the state here so severely. Who sells these contracts stating they will "end homelessness" and at the same time cure all chronic illness. I need a break. Someone send for me in tahiti and teach me how you have done healthcare correctly. I get up to 5 months to live outside fo the US on your dimes. I say we open up a cool medical release form camp that is a vacation resort where your only job is to tell the truth about how your body and brain are both doing and then get paired with a doctors without borders partner and never look back to state policy again for federal issues that won't get resolved because we can only vote on state problems. I got captured across my state lines. Nobody will prosecute the perp in the other state. I think this is a sad day for California, punishing her citizens and forcing them back into federal formularies and housing programs but not addressing the real issues at home.
Big love and waiting for my invite to Hawaii post haste.
Aloha,
Cynthia
I look forward to hearing from anyone specifically who is interested in healthcare reform. While I worked on some ancillary preliminary mock ups to help revamp the transparency of hospital minutia as an ex administrator of hospitals, I want you to just reread my statement. I am an EX administrator of hospitals. I was not going to throw my hat in with those people who don't think keeping an I-9 on file for cleaning staff were important. I feel if I was in a coma; I would want to know if the person dressing my wounds was actually a citizen and traceable by law if something should go wrong. That is not the case for more of these longer term care facilities. I just buried my grandpa after wrestling to get him back at home for his last few weeks of life. My family came to me for help, even though I'm considered :cray cray: by the state of California. My grandma who is well off still won't pay an ambulance bill for transferring him home. My grandpa was a WWII veteran with a purple heart and many noble accomplishments. I was shocked that the president had something whispered to my grandma at the service and can turn a blind eye to his grand-daughter in the same breath.
Hey, America, let's take back our healthcare system from a slew of under trained administrators because the doctors are burdened by paying out retarded malpractice insurance amts and there is nothing out there going to start paying them back for offering us instead, the fresh air, clean water, healthy food and uniting exercise programs in the community until we build it. WE have to build it. This is a great country and I for one, am sick of being told that I am not "paying" or "losing" anything other than time I could be working. I sit with the other elderly patients and think to myself, Well I have time, BUT DO THEY?
Much love to you citizens paying full price. Don't, in 3 years with a chronic illness and no income you too can be bounced around and told ER's are full by your medicare recipients. You didn't really think that money went to me and my social network did you? It goes directly to a clerk who turned me away last month when i couldn't breathe after exposure to high levels of ammonia. I have medicare, it didn't matter. I am fully covered, it didn't matter. If I had been 54 it might have been ironic. In my case, it just isn't wise to ask someone to treat me for a severe breathing situation if I am only a crazy person who survived torture for over three months during a crime. I think maybe, we can find a drone for this perp. I just wouldn't know where to start but the great Oz and removing the gold standard. It begins with a heart tin man, a heart. I can't be a PTSD sufferer and also have physical injuries. That wouldn't fit the line item criteria for most HMO plans. I am one or the other, a body or a brain. When that divorce ends I will truly be a child of our people. Until then, I have to choose if I want to live in a house or on the street. I have to choose if I want to turn my family in for abuse or run into the hills and call myself the crazy one. I wonder if there is a system that is provided for partial handi caps and if so, why they are choked out by the state here so severely. Who sells these contracts stating they will "end homelessness" and at the same time cure all chronic illness. I need a break. Someone send for me in tahiti and teach me how you have done healthcare correctly. I get up to 5 months to live outside fo the US on your dimes. I say we open up a cool medical release form camp that is a vacation resort where your only job is to tell the truth about how your body and brain are both doing and then get paired with a doctors without borders partner and never look back to state policy again for federal issues that won't get resolved because we can only vote on state problems. I got captured across my state lines. Nobody will prosecute the perp in the other state. I think this is a sad day for California, punishing her citizens and forcing them back into federal formularies and housing programs but not addressing the real issues at home.
Big love and waiting for my invite to Hawaii post haste.
Aloha,
Cynthia
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