Its not gonna happen. Why, you ask?
My blog got rejected due to excessive foul language. Thats cool..thats fine and dandy. FUCK THAT, hahahaa. I pay blog on another site of mine thats much, much more family friendly than this site.
Actually, the one thing that had me bummed about the whole paid blogging on this domain would be that I may have to screen myself and not be “me.” Which, I would have really hate to have done, but when you need the money..you need the money.
Luckily, the google page rank for my other site went up to TWO! So now, I am able to get ops to write ads that pay a bit more so I can make up for all the lost income by writing just one ad a day..so if I choose to write more..ill make more. So, in about a month ill be making a decent amount of cash again. Kickass.
Everything worked out perfectly. A couple days before this blog got rejected, my page rank on my other blog went up, allowing me to supplement my lost income with that blog, which was what I was gonna do with this blog…does that make sense? I hope so, because I dont know any other real way to explain it -.-.
Well…I dont have anything else to write about, really.. oh, wait..yes I do.
I think im getting firsthand experience on how fucked up our health care system is in this country. I havent seen “Sicko” and im really, not educated at all on the subject of health care in our country, but I know a few things. My boyfriend is pretty educated on it and he doesnt have very good things to say about it, and ive got an online friend named Liz who also rarely, if ever, has good things to say about the health care system in the United States. So, now, with that said..ive got a story to tell.
I am uninsured. Thats right, I do not have health insurance or any other kind of insurance for that matter. So, apparently that complicates things a bit when it comes to health care. Why? I dont know. There are a lot of people in this country that cannot afford insurance, should they be less of a priority than those who do have insurance? Definitely not, but it sure seems that way. A couple weeks ago when I had to go to the hospital due to my panic attack they told me about a program here that helps uninsured patients to get health care at an affordable price. I was super excited about this because not only could I get health care at a decent price, but I could also get my prescriptions filled at a very decent price also. I thought that this program was fucking awesome. Just what this country needed. Like I said, there are tons of people who just cant afford health insurance and unfortunately, they are under prioritized. I know that I will probably never have real health insurance for a couple of reasons. Ill never work a job that gives it to me because im not the kind of person that can deal with a 9-5 job so I will always be doing “odd” jobs that more than likely dont offer insurance. So, yeah, I was excited about this program.
Basically, you enroll in the program and they send you a packet of information that tells you the health clinic you are assigned to, the pharmacy you are assigned to, etc. For patients that make a really, really low amount of money you have to sign up with the programs pharmacy, and for those who make an average amount of money you can get them filled wherever. I make an average amount of money and the clinic I was assigned to is also a pharmacy so I could get them written there by my doctor, and filled there.
The time came today for me to go visit my assigned clinic for the first time to meet with a doctor as a follow-up appointment to my ER visit and I needed a new prescription written for one of my medications, Ativan.
So, I go into the clinic and I tell them why im there, etc
“Hey im here as a walk in, I was just enrolled in the ************ program and they assigned you guys as my clinic, im here to see a doctor for a follow-up appointment to an ER visit I had a couple weeks ago, and to get some new prescriptions written for my medication.”
“Baby we aint got no time for you today we already have too many patients you gon have to come back tomorrow, well, wait, we aint got no walk in doctor for tomorrow you gon have to come back on Thursday.”
“Ok, cool! Thanks”
“Wait..whatchu here for again?”
“Im here because I was just enrolled in the ********** program and they assigned you guys as my clinic and I need to meet with a doctor to get some new prescriptions for my medications because one of them has run out”
“What medication?”
“Ativan..Lorazepam.”
“Baby aint nobody here gon write you a prescription for that.”
“What? Why? I was assigned here by ********, why would they direct me here?”
“I dont know. But nobody here gon write you a prescription for that.”
“Uh, ok. Thanks.”
And, then I walked out. Pissed as hell. Its not enough that those who arent insured are treated as lower class and have to fight to get medical care. But, when a program finally comes together to serve those who arent insured, its a piece of shit too. A piece of shit that is unorganized and has no real clue what the fuck they are doing.
When I was enrolled in this program they gave me a care coordinator to call in case I had any problems. I called her a couple times last week to ask questions about what I was supposed to do when I went in for my initial visit to my assigned clinic so I wouldnt have to deal with problems like this, I left her three messages and she never called me back. Thats cool. Maybe she was busy with her job. Oh yeah, her job is to call me back. So today when I went into the clinic, I had no idea what I was supposed to do but I figured it couldnt be that hard. I took all of my paperwork, prescriptions, medication bottles, etc. They didnt care to look at any of that stuff and just sent me right out the door within 2 minutes of my arrival.
Why would this program assign me to a clinic that was not able to write and fill my prescriptions? They knew my medical history. They have to study the patients medical history in order to figure out what clinic to assign to them, etc. So, knowing my medical history and knowing that it is mental health, why wouldnt they assign me to a mental health clinic where my problems could be dealt with accordingly and why in the fuck is the ER speaking so highly of, and helping me enroll into a program that isnt worth a damn? So, I came home and made a few calls. I called my care coordinator once again and left a message, then I called my clinic again and spoke with the head nurse there. I explained to her what happened and she said theres absolutely no reason why this should have happened. That this clinic is listed as a mental health facility and that prescriptions like mine are filled there everyday so she has no idea who I spoke with (it was a nurse) and why they blatantly lied to me like that. I had no idea either. She told me to come back Thursday morning as early as possible (around 7AM) as a walk in and talk with a doctor and everything should be fine.
Now, ive still got a smidgen of hope for this program. My first impression has given me a fucked up view about them and it has just showed me a bit about how mixed up and unorganized our health care system in this country is. Hopefully they will redeem themselves, but im not keeping my hopes up for that one. We will see.
Ill keep you updated.
I hope he will be ok.
I am Leslie. 