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Re: newbie - get insurance NOW!! (rant-y)From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue Nov 29 11:29:16 2005
to qualify for welfare/medical/whatever your state offers you have to be below the federal poverty line, or very close to it. i personally would have to default on all my credit card and other debt, and live in a shelter to live at all on what i'd have to in order to qualify. i may end up like that pretty soon anyway, but i certainly can't *choose* that for myself! i'm actually considering getting as many credit cards as i can, then maxing them all to pay for surgery. then i'll default and ruin my credit, but maybe i'll find some relief and considering what my life is like now, it would be worth it. then maybe you'll be like me and go to the public hospital and when you don't want their lupron, don't want a hysterectomy, and you don't want them fiddling around in you with a laser and without even a bowel prep, they'll tell you there's nothing else they can do - and they'll refuse to prescribe pain meds because you won't take "treatment." at the public hospital i went to, i was not even able to see the operating doctor at my "pre-op" - she was "too busy." when i call to try to talk to her, it takes 20 minutes minimum to get a human on the phone, then the nurses say they will "try" to give her the message that i need to talk to her *before* she operates, then they pass me off to the main operator to page the doc, because they know i'll never get her on the phone any other way. somehow, she's never around to answer those pages, either. bad laparoscopies cause adhesions, and often more pain - and very few doctors are skilled enough to do a good one. if you have't had insurance in the past year but you get it after you see a doctor for this, you will be labeled as having a "pre-existing condition" and they can make you wait 6-12 months before they will cover anything. i'm not trying to scare you, it's just that i'm in this situation right now, and there are many days i'd rather not be alive at all. please research your situation very carefully so you don't end up like me! i can't work fulltime because of the pain, and i may be stuck like this for the rest of my life because i'll probably never be able to hold a fulltime job long enough to wait for the medical coverage to kick in proper. maybe eventually my boyfriend will realize how serious this is and marry me so i can be on his insurance, but i'll still have to wait 12 months for endo treatments to be covered. my parents would have to mortgage their house to help me pay for the surgery, and they are not interested in doing that, to say the least. i've pretty much given up on my family - my sister had endo and finally got a hysterectomy and all she can do is tell me i'm being a "baby." i've been on a couple of these boards, and there is next to nothing anyone can offer you when you don't have insurance - not even decent advice, except "get insurance!!!" because in the US, if you can't afford it, you can't have it. i'm wishing you all the best and hope you find help soon!
At Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Leigh wrote:
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