I've had it.
26 months without work, 20 months without income, insurance (self-insurance) cost is $1228 per quarter for a $2,000 deductible, denied disability twice and been told it could take as much as another 18 months (from now) to be approved for disability, SSA would take a large portion of that away even if I were able to get it because they insist they overpayed me in 1995-96 and I still owe them $7,000, medical bills I am looking at right now are in the area of about $1,400.
I have REALLY had it. When I called Hennepin County Medical Center to ask about reducing my payments below $25 a month they said "no can do." I wrote them a letter. In the letter I stated:
"I am not willing to liquidate all of my assets to pay these medical bills and then wind up with no food and no roof over my head. Work with me, hire me to go to work so I can earn an income to pay the bills, but I am not giving in to this ****** up medical scam."
Or words to that effect. Find out today that I will need to part with $201.00 for a 30 day supply of Keppra. Called the Neurologists office and said "i can't afford this."
"you will have seizures."
"no kidding. I won't pay those bills either."
I am actually considering finding an attorney for a medical malpractice suit. In April 2007 I told my then Neurologist that my Cobra insurance would end on May 31st and we needed to do something NOW.
Now turned out to be mid-July and it was to Dilantin. That made everything worse. Some individual made the simple decision that the cheapest drug would have to be the solution. NOT. After six months of h*** I am off Dilantin, but still taking the Lamictal and Keppra. I told them in April 2007 I needed to get off of those drugs because of their cost, but I did not expect them to put me on a drug that would make things worse. Here I am nine months later, with a lot less money and not very much in the way of options. Because I have insurance, things like www.rxassist.org are of no value. Because I am being very "Scottish" I am not going to sell every last thing I have to pay medical bills.
Heard on the news last week that "Minnesota is already in a recession." No kidding.
Hopefully some of these troglodytes posing as medical professionals will get the message.
"I'm mad as h*** and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
26 months without work, 20 months without income, insurance (self-insurance) cost is $1228 per quarter for a $2,000 deductible, denied disability twice and been told it could take as much as another 18 months (from now) to be approved for disability, SSA would take a large portion of that away even if I were able to get it because they insist they overpayed me in 1995-96 and I still owe them $7,000, medical bills I am looking at right now are in the area of about $1,400.
I have REALLY had it. When I called Hennepin County Medical Center to ask about reducing my payments below $25 a month they said "no can do." I wrote them a letter. In the letter I stated:
"I am not willing to liquidate all of my assets to pay these medical bills and then wind up with no food and no roof over my head. Work with me, hire me to go to work so I can earn an income to pay the bills, but I am not giving in to this ****** up medical scam."
Or words to that effect. Find out today that I will need to part with $201.00 for a 30 day supply of Keppra. Called the Neurologists office and said "i can't afford this."
"you will have seizures."
"no kidding. I won't pay those bills either."
I am actually considering finding an attorney for a medical malpractice suit. In April 2007 I told my then Neurologist that my Cobra insurance would end on May 31st and we needed to do something NOW.
Now turned out to be mid-July and it was to Dilantin. That made everything worse. Some individual made the simple decision that the cheapest drug would have to be the solution. NOT. After six months of h*** I am off Dilantin, but still taking the Lamictal and Keppra. I told them in April 2007 I needed to get off of those drugs because of their cost, but I did not expect them to put me on a drug that would make things worse. Here I am nine months later, with a lot less money and not very much in the way of options. Because I have insurance, things like www.rxassist.org are of no value. Because I am being very "Scottish" I am not going to sell every last thing I have to pay medical bills.
Heard on the news last week that "Minnesota is already in a recession." No kidding.
Hopefully some of these troglodytes posing as medical professionals will get the message.
"I'm mad as h*** and I'm not going to take it anymore!"