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5/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
Let's discuss 'Can't even afford state insurance? EGH can help'.
One had spent five years not knowing if she would have her next month's prescriptions. The other put off an operation for three years. Both Debbie Myrick, 48, and Laura Veich, 51, let their health lapse because they did not have the means to pay for health care.
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| Out of curiosity, what happens to HIP after the DC politicians pass socialized medicine later as is in the works? As an Indiana resident, I'm not willing to be paying into two separate forms of socialized medicine, one state and one federal. This country truly and seriously needs another uncivil war. I can smell it brewing in the air.
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| The problem with socialized medicine is everything is rationed.If you have a serious illness you could die waiting to be seen.The system we have needs work that's for certain,but I don't want anyone to have to wait 6 months to a year to be seen for a heart problem.Unfortunately anytime government ever gets fully involved in anything in the private sector all they ever do is screw it up. It doesn't matter if it's Republicans or Democrats.
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| My daughter who isn't even 21 yet, has been out of work for over a year. She did not have enough time in to receive unemployment so she has no money coming in. Her fiance works in a low wage job and they are trying to survive on that. She has no insurance and has a tumor on her pituitary gland that is wreaking havoc on her system and putting pressure on her optical nerves (could go blind). She has to take half of a pill once a week to try to shrink this thing or she will need surgery. The problem is, the perscription is around two hundred dollars a month (this is approx. $100 per pill). This doesn't count the 2 specialists as well as the optical specialist she had to go to during the diagnosis of this or all of the tests that were run to try to figure out the problem. She has applied for HIP as well as Medicaid and cannot receive either one because she is not disabled nor does she have a child. These kids are trying their best to make it but the system is sinking them quickly. It took 4 visits to the specialist before they even perscribed the medicine! This included 3 visits after the tumor was found and they bounced her around to 2 different doctors! Each visit is no less than $120 and since she doesn't have insurance they want the money at the time of the visit. I understand that but...where is an unemployed person supposed to come up with over $600 in less than a month? The real kicker for me is the doctor's in all but two of the visits have spent less than 5 minutes with her, gave her no new information, tests, diagnosis, or treatment and the bill was $250 each time! The basically had her come in to tell her that she needed to make another appointment! I have been paying as much as I can and the trustees office paid for her prescription for one month and Church Community Services has also helped but it doesn't pay the doctor's bills. I just wanted to send this out as an example of people who are falling through the cracks. I don't believe that she is "entitled" to assistance, but I do believe that the medical system is so out of hand that it is next to impossible to receive medical care without insurance or government assistance. 
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At this point I would willingly accept socialized medicine. At least it would be something. My choice pay the doctor so I can get my scrips renewed and not pay a bill or pay the bill don't get the scrips and possibly have a heart attack and die. The whole system makes me 
Boundaries & beliefs are nothing more than ideas or concepts that we have commited to & accepted as truth. They become the prison walls that we inadvertently construct around ourselves ----
Deepak Chopra
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| Maybe they have to regulate what people consume? Only healthy fast food, soft drinks with vitamin c, watery alcohol, $100 a pack cigarettes? Maybe Howard County Maryland should be the model for the country? They can provide health care for there residents for $30.00 a month? How a small county in Maryland can do it? Maybe all of the states can create there own programs. Maybe a highway funding mandate? There is too much politico talk in the country? Civil war? Maybe they should reline the media? All of the negitive talk, talk. We take the country for granted.
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| Maybe the cities and counties should create there own programs. What Baltimore needs may not be what Norfolk needs. Elkhart General was able to create a program, what people need. They would have to fund an under used program if it were from the government? I hope they do something about social security? I worry about being old with no money and sick.
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